Director - Planning and Development

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.

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. 
  1. 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. 

• 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.