Position: Director - Planning and Development
Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday
Location: London-based, with hybrid working requiring a minimum of three days per week across the office and project sites. Regular nationwide travel is required.
What you’ll be doing
The Development & Disposals team at TT Group is looking to recruit a Director, Planning & Development to play a key role in the Group’s planning, development and disposal activities.
TT Group, formerly Telereal Trillium, is one of the UK’s largest privately owned property investment and development firms, with an £8bn+ property portfolio and a development pipeline of more than 22,000 homes.
What we need from you
Planning (Promotion / Strategy / Applications)
- Lead on Central London planning projects (e.g. BT portfolio – Project Westminster and Project RBKC) with a primary focus on residential.
- Lead the planning strategy across numerous Central London sites from initial feasibility through to planning consent and delivery or disposal.
- Manage relationships with local authorities (Central London), planning consultants, architects, and design teams.
- Act as the primary TT representative on these projects with:
- Local authorities & planning officers
- Government bodies
- local communities & public stakeholders
- Politicians and elected representatives.
- Manage consultations and secure stakeholder support for development proposals.
- Negotiate planning obligations, including Section 106 and Section 278 agreements.
- Establish clear asset strategies to maximise development profits or disposal proceeds.
- Assess development constraints such as title issues, funding structures, taxation, and planning limitations.
- Identify redevelopment opportunities within the portfolio.
Development & Transaction Management
- Lead on Development Projects (JV and Direct).
- Expertise in Development and JVs from planning, technical design, through procurement and delivery to practical completion and completed sales.
- Lead on development support into the disposals team in:
- The preparation of sites to the market and the collation of comprehensive due diligence / marketing packs.
- Legal and contract negotiation, efficiently through to completion.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with strategy, commercial estate, finance, project management, tax, modelling, and new homes teams.
- Advise internal stakeholders on valuation, planning, development, and disposal strategies.
- Support new business initiatives and investment decisions.
Financial & Board Reporting
- Prepare:
- Business cases for spend in relation to value add.
- Cash flow models.
- Development appraisals.
- Board reports and presentations.
- Provide regular progress, budget, and performance updates to senior executives.
What skills you’ll bring to us
- Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), with significant experience in identifying and maximising alternative-use value through the planning process.
- Thorough understanding and experience in the planning process with experience of leading applications with particular emphasis on residential development schemes in Central London.
- Experience of working on live developments and / or disposal of consented sites would be advantageous (preferably on prime Central London opportunities).
- Proven experience in writing detailed board reports requesting spend for planning and/or development, managing programme, internal reporting and budgets.
- Good understanding and experience of argus development appraisal software.
- Experience in managing and driving external planning, legal, design teams.
- Strong commercial acumen
- Strong consultant contacts base.
- Strong negotiating and communication skills.
- Good contacts in the planning, development and agency markets.
- Natural Team Player.
- Self-motivated with a passion/can do attitude to achieve challenging results.
- Excellent presentation and reporting skills.
- Analytical with a key focus to detail.
- Good IT skills including MS Office and internal DCF modelling applications.
- Ability and willingness to meet deadlines.
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