Manager – Planning & Enabling in Bristol

As a Planning and Enabling Manager, you will play a key role in delivering a diverse portfolio of projects across the South Region, ranging from small sites to large, complex strategic developments. Based in either London or Bristol and reporting to a Senior Planning and Enabling Manager, you will contribute to de-risking sites, achieving planning certainty, and enabling the delivery of new homes across Homes England’s land portfolio.

You will lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary teams on a range of projects and initiatives, providing planning and technical expertise to support successful project outcomes. Joining an enthusiastic, motivated, friendly and experienced team of highly skilled professionals, you will contribute to delivering projects efficiently, ensuring they are appropriately de-risked and brought to market in a way that maximises early delivery and delivers value for money.

The team is committed to taking an innovative and proactive approach to solving challenges and identifying practical solutions. Collaboration and flexibility are central to how the team operates, supporting effective decision-making and problem-solving.

There are many exciting and rewarding projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day-to-day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the Planning and Enabling offering. This includes developing planning and technical strategies, instructing and managing consultants, responding to Local Plan consultations, and overseeing the preparation and submission of planning applications. You will also engage with Local Planning Authorities to agree application content and negotiate appropriate planning conditions and Section 106 agreements, ensuring projects remain deliverable and aligned with programme timelines.

In addition, you will provide technical advice to colleagues and partners involved in land acquisition and disposal, assessing planning risks and opportunities, and shaping planning strategies in accordance with Homes England governance requirements. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the delivery of complex and rewarding housing and regeneration projects across both brownfield and greenfield sites within a national organisation driven by social purpose.

You will be educated to degree level, with professional membership (MRICS or MRTPI) desirable or working towards, and experience within the residential sector. As an experienced planning professional, you will have strong project management skills, with the ability to manage consultants and collaborate effectively within multi-disciplinary teams.

A strong understanding of the housing market, development sector and the Government’s housing agenda is important. You will be confident navigating the planning system, with experience across a range of planning matters including community engagement, technical assessments, and negotiations with local authorities. You will be well organised, an effective communicator, and have an interest in placemaking. Experience with outline permissions, Section 106 agreements, reserved matters, and discharge of conditions is essential.

A solid understanding of the development process including pre-acquisition, land transactions, risk management, development economics, and viability will be beneficial. You will be comfortable managing multiple priorities, seeking opportunities to improve processes and innovate. You will thrive in a collaborative environment, using your project management skills to manage multiple projects and consultant teams effectively.

You will be resilient, commercially aware, and confident working with a range of stakeholders, always considering the operational and financial impacts of decisions. Strong communication skills written, verbal, and digital are essential, alongside the ability to negotiate and influence effectively. You will be motivated, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement, with a collaborative and inclusive approach to teamwork.

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency. We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer: Competitive salary, 33 days annual leave, and a commitment to 50/50 hybrid working. Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency. Support for employee well-being, including a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. Professional development support – if you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and provide a digital kit. Homes England is a geographically diverse community and works to a 50/50 office/home based model, fostering collaboration and flexible working. Homes England does not offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK and provide proof at interview. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; all statements must be truthful and come from your own experience. Plagiarism may result in withdrawal of applications.