Macdonald & Company
Development Director
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Macdonald & Company and the Duchy of Cornwall
Macdonald & Company are thrilled to be partnering with the Duchy of Cornwall to hire a Development Director to be based in Nansledan, Cornwall.
About the Duchy of Cornwall
The Duchy of Cornwall is an estate committed to empowering communities, championing its tenants, supporting mental health, and tackling climate challenges through its net zero goal and environmental initiatives. The ultimate aim is to create positive impact and value for the future, balancing the environmental, social, and economic needs of communities and ecosystems.
The real estate development team take on anything from new town developments, through to small scale housing. Many of the schemes are mixed-use, providing much needed leisure, workplace, healthcare, and retail facilities alongside high-quality, mixed-tenure housing and public realm.
Five Heartland Locations
To enable the Duchy to maximize its social, economic, and environmental impact, it will be focusing the majority of its investment and role in five “Heartland” locations: the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Bath, Dartmoor, and Kennington.
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Nansledan will be a 4000 home new town with market sale, affordable, and Build to Rent homes, as well as a range of employment and leisure opportunities that reflect the Duchy’s ambition to create and nurture a healthy, vibrant, viable community. There will also be specialist housing provision to help homeless people get off the streets and back into mainstream society.
On the Isles of Scilly, the Duchy is seeking to build further housing, particularly for local key workers, navigating the challenging logistics of building on an island. It will also be looking to build upon the existing tourism experience to make it an even more attractive place to live, visit, and work.
Leading Development at Nansledan
The Development Director will lead all development at Nansledan and The Isles of Scilly, overseeing the Duchy’s consortium of developers. They will be supported by a Project Director who will lead on project delivery.
There are a huge variety of exciting projects to work on. On the residential side, the Development Director will drive forward the provision of BTR, affordable housing, supported housing, and later living housing either directly or via strategic partnerships with organizations and charities such as the Royal Foundation’s Homewards team.
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Non-residential developments include Nansledan’s new Market Street which comprises 150,000 sq ft of retail, office, leisure space, and public realm. There are also artisan barn conversions, community astro-pitches, padel courts, industrial workshops, and a GP Surgery.
We’d Like to Hear from You
We’d like to hear from Development Directors with demonstrable leadership experience, gained on high quality UK, mixed-use schemes.
We seek candidates who share the values of the Duchy to deliver positive outcomes for communities, nature, and climate.
Please get in touch with Stephen Glands at Macdonald & Company to learn more.
Salary and benefits package information will be supplied alongside a full job description.
Please note, any direct approaches will be referred to Macdonald & Company for screening.
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