TDM Recruitment is working exclusively with a well-funded, growing residential investment business. They’re recruiting a Planning Manager to become their lead in-house planning specialist. It’s a newly created role: you’ll own planning risk across a large portfolio of residential sites delivered with developer partners, from acquisition through to completion and beyond.
Key responsibilities
- Planning advice: be the business’s main source of planning advice across the development lifecycle, from opportunity and due diligence through to completion and handover.
- Due diligence: coordinate planning due diligence on acquisitions and disposals. That covers reviewing permissions, decision notices, reserved matters, conditions, s106, highways and drainage agreements, and CIL exposure.
- Portfolio tracking: track permissions, conditions, obligations and discharge requirements across the portfolio, and advise on whether each site is ready to complete.
- Compliance: advise on non-compliance, enforcement risk, Section 73 and non-material amendments, and s106 interpretation.
- Working with others: deal directly with developers, local authorities, legal advisers and consultants to resolve issues and secure practical outcomes.
- Governance: build and maintain trackers, risk registers and reporting that are accurate, ready for audit and trusted by decision-makers.
- Advisers: appoint, brief and manage external planning consultants while keeping ownership of the advice.
Experience and skills
- 5+ years’ planning experience at a housebuilder, developer, housing association, planning consultancy or local authority.
- Strong working knowledge of the English planning system: conditions, reserved matters, s106/278/38/104 agreements, CIL, appeals, enforcement and discharge.
- Confident translating complex planning issues into clear, commercial advice for senior management and investors.
- Highly organised and comfortable across multiple live sites, from high-level risk judgement down to detailed document review.
- Degree in town planning or equivalent; chartered membership of the RTPI desirable.
- Experience in residential development, build-to-rent or the private rented sector would be an advantage.
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Planning Manager employer: TDM Recruitment Group
Join a dynamic and rapidly growing specialist contractor in Central London, where you will have the opportunity to develop your estimating skills across a diverse range of projects, from cladding replacements to new builds. With a flexible working environment and a clear path for career progression to Senior Estimator, this is an excellent employer that values growth and innovation, allowing you to be part of building a new team from the ground up.
