tdm recruitment
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TDM Recruitment is working exclusively with a leading strategic land business to appoint a Planning Manager. This is a great opportunity for a planning professional looking to build their career within strategic land promotion, working on a pipeline of residential-led sites across the region.
About the role:
The successful candidate will manage a portfolio of strategic land sites through the planning process, from initial land appraisal through to allocation and planning consent, working closely with landowners, consultants, and local authorities.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage sites through the planning process, including local plan promotions, outline and reserved matters applications
- Instruct and manage multi-disciplinary consultant teams (planning, highways, ecology, landscape, technical)
- Prepare and review planning submissions, representations, and appeal statements
- Build and maintain relationships with local authority planning officers, elected members, and key stakeholders
- Assess land opportunities and contribute to site appraisals and land acquisition decisions
- Monitor emerging local plans and policy changes, identifying promotion opportunities
- Liaise with landowners and agents to manage promotion agreements and option arrangements
- Present sites and strategy updates to internal stakeholders and board level as required
- Manage budgets and programmes for sites within your portfolio
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Skills and experience required:
- Degree in Planning, Geography, or related discipline (RTPI membership desirable)
- 3–7 years post-graduate experience in planning or strategic land
- Background from a house builder, strategic land promoter, or planning consultancy
- Strong understanding of the English planning system, including local plan process, NPPF, and s106/CIL
- Proven track record of progressing sites through planning, ideally residential-led schemes
- Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable liaising with landowners, agents, consultants, and local authorities
- Commercially minded, with the ability to balance planning strategy against land value and deliverability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Full UK driving licence
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