Taylor Wimpey
Design & Planning Executive

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Make a Home at Taylor Wimpley
At Taylor Wimpey, we don’t just build houses; we build futures. Not just for the people who live in our homes, but for our own people too. When we bring our collective skills together, we make amazing things happen - for ourselves, for each other and for our customers. There are incredible opportunities on your doorstep, and we want you to discover them all.
With 22 regional offices across the UK and operations in Spain, we bring our vision to life locally. Here, you’ll be given the tools to develop your skills and the freedom to explore new avenues. Share your ideas, experience a no-blame culture, and shape your work around your life.
Every single one of us plays a vital role in bringing to life incredible places and spaces, where anyone can thrive. We believe in making a positive difference to our planet, as well as to people.
Home to work that matters, and you can be a part of it.
Job Summary
Deliver the highest quality designs and most commercially viable planning permissions by supporting the Planning team with designs and supporting information required for the preparation and submission of planning applications.
Primary Responsibilities
Pre-Development Management
- Produce & co-ordinate high quality designs, utilizing TW standard products and details wherever possible
- Management of external consultants to ensure information is received, checked, co-ordinated and distributed on time and within budget.
- Attend concept, pre tender, pre start, specification and any other relevant meeting as required under the Company’s Framework procedure.
- Ensure the designed scheme is viable, liaising with internal colleagues to ensure the scheme meets BU requirements
- Implement the departments Quality Management Process to ensure Design information meets the high quality expectations of the business.
- Arrange, co-ordinate and manage all design meetings with other departments in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring all relevant action points are noted and recorded.
- Liaise and negotiate where necessary with Statutory Authorities, Local Planning Authorities, Highways, Consultants etc. to ensure projects achieve the set objectives and programmes.
- Liaison with sales department in procurement of accurate sales presentation drawings.
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Development Management
- Liaise and co-ordinate design information with the Engineering team to insure adoptable and approval standards are met.
- Provide knowledge/expertise to react to changes in legislation as dictated by industry standards of Building Control, NHBC and planning law.
Land and, Planning & Community engagement
- Alongside the Planning team, manage community consultations, enquiries and reactions of the surrounding population to planning applications.
- Alongside the Planning team, manage and drive Section 106 agreements, identifying the commercial impact and negotiating commercially viable contributions with authorities.
- Alongside the Planning team, clear all planning conditions prior to approval.
- Support planning applications, co-ordinate with the Planning & technical teams to deliver accurate designs and approvals from inception to completion, including all supporting document.
- Responsible for all planning and development functions on a determined number of sites. Input into house type design forum.
- Assist in the evaluation and appraisal of development opportunities to purchase new sites.
Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements
- Degree level qualification in a relevant field
- Previous experience in the housebuilding sector
- Capable of preparing and managing a number of planning applications
- Computer literate with knowledge of Autocad
What we offer at Taylor Wimpey
At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.


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We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.
We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.
If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey.
Inclusivity Statement
As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
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