Director - Planning and Development

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.