Job Summary
Working in a team, the Planning and Enabling Manager will play an important role in planning and delivering homes on public land as part of new and expanding communities. This is a unique opportunity to support housing delivery on a range of sites and scales. You will be joining our highly skilled and friendly team who are committed to making positive change in how land is unlocked to deliver new homes in great neighbourhoods.
Job Description
The Southern Development Team is committed to making positive change in how the sites we acquire are planned and delivered and believes in taking an innovative and creative approach to planning and enabling issues. It values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good multi-disciplinary working and problem solving.
This is a great chance to shape the future of housing delivery in a very physical and tangible way, working on some of the most exciting developments in the country in a fast-growing national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders, communities, and a professional team of built environment professionals, you will use experience and creative thinking to:
1. Get land allocated for development
2. Secure planning permissions
3. Guide implementation to help create successful new communities where people want to live
The role involves supporting senior colleagues in the planning, design, and delivery of key strategic projects around the south of England. There are some ambitious projects to get involved with, some at the concept stage, others in delivery, and this is an excellent opportunity to bring innovative solutions to the planning and enabling offering.
Person Specification
Educated to degree level or equivalent within the planning and property development fields, you’ll have a good understanding of house building, place making, and community development. While our day job is to deliver large numbers of new homes at pace on publicly owned sites, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.
You will be comfortable navigating the planning system, working on a range of planning issues including community engagement, technical considerations, and negotiations with local authorities. You will be well-organised and a good communicator with an interest in place making and experience of:
1. Instructing/interpreting outline planning permissions
2. Negotiating and implementing s106 agreements
3. Progressing reserved matters and discharge of condition applications
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders, and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a Large Sites team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun, and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.
As an experienced Planning professional, you’ll have good project management skills and understand how to manage colleagues and consultants, demonstrating you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. Experience of development/house building and community engagement would be beneficial.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits, and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return, we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
1. Holiday: Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
2. Working Flexibly: At Homes England, we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part-time, job share, and compressed hours.
3. Health and Wellbeing: We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as well as access to Occupational Health.
4. Professional Development: At Homes England, we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
5. Family Friendly Benefits: We also offer an excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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