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Strategic Land & Planning Manager, London

Cobalt are thrilled to be partnered with a well-established promoter and developer, hiring a Senior Strategic Land & Planning Manager team member in London. Your role will be to identify sites with the potential for promotion within current and emerging Local Plans across the UK as well as working through their landbank, to promote these sites. Whether this identification is through agents or off-market, you will need to have experience in negotiating these deals, being adept at leading on conversations with landowners and other stakeholders.

The established and successful team are lean, yet experienced in both the identification, promotion and obtaining of full planning permission of residential-led sites throughout the region. Others in the team will focus on the promotion of these sites, while your focus will be primarily on the land deals and signing up these sites through unconditional and subject-to planning agreements.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Searching for viable sites through contacts and software, such as LandTech.

  • Managing a land bank and numerous ongoing and future deals and promotions

  • Negotiating land deals and drafting Heads of Terms with lawyers, if you choose to be more land focussed.

  • Promoting sites through the Local Plan, and working on outline, hybrid and detailed applications.

  • Keeping up-to-date on changes in planning policy and updates on Local Plans.

You will ideally:

  • Be experienced in promoting sites through Local Plans

  • Be adept at negotiating and a track record in securing sites.

  • Be a team player and a confident communicator.

In exchange for your joining and dedication to the team, you will receive a competitive bonus/package and will reap the rewards from collaborating with a successful regional team.

Please apply here or give me (Sheirani) a call to discuss. My client is looking to find the right candidate as soon as possible - so if in doubt, do get in touch. I also have other clients and roles that may be of interest.

If you do not hear anything back within one week, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion, but I will retain your details for future roles.

When applying to any role through Cobalt, your CV will never be shared with a client without your prior consent. Apply in confidence below or get in touch with me for a confidential discussion about the position via ssavarimuthu@cobaltrecruitment.com and 0207 478 2478.