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The Built Environment - Part of The Property and Technical Unit

The Built Environment Section

We are a multi discipline team incorporating  Architects, Property Surveyors, Car Parking Services and Estate Surveyors. The section has the flexibility to undertake a wide variety of building orientated work from feasibility, through design and detail stages, to building maintenance programmes and estate management

We have the benefit of fully computerised project management. The unit has computer aided design capability using ArchiCad,Cartology and Sketchup and can produce anything from simple sketches through working drawings  to full photo-montages

The unit currently consists of nine staff under the Head of section -  John Laird Dip. Arch. (Cant) RIBA

Customer Charter

The Property and Technical Unit serves the community by maintaining and managing Council assets and supporting other Council departments in their work.

It has three principal specialisms:-
The Built Environment
  • Providing  feasibility and design work for existing council owned property and for new projects.
  • To ensure maintenance and repair of all the Councils assets.
  • To manage the Councils office accommodation and ensure demand meets supply.
  • To provide and manage the investment estate providing opportunities for small and emerging business through commercial properties for rent.
  • To manage the Lynton Agency
  • Providing the Car Parking enforcement and management function for the Council
Parks and landscape gardening.
  • Meeting the needs of the local community and visitors to the area by the provision of high quality parks and amenities including seasonal undertakings.
  • To provide a burial service at Ilfracombe and to support our agent Barnstaple Town Council in the provision of the service in Barnstaple.
Engineering and consultancy
  • To act as  the Land Drainage and Coastal Defence Authority


Contact

Architects
Telephone: 01271 388349
Telephone: 01271 388350

Property Surveyors
Telephone: 01271 388324--general enquiries
Telephone: 01271 388345--surveyors

Estates Surveyors
Telephone: 01271 388281

Administration
Telephone: 01271 388377
Fax number: 01271 329753

The Built  Environment
E-Mail Addresses: builtenvironment@northdevon.gov.uk

Property and technical
Email: propertyandtechnical@northdevon.gov.uk

The Built Environment Section
North Devon Council
Civic Centre, Barnstaple
Devon EX31 1EA