Associate Director of Land Purchase

FM1509JS – Associate Director of Land Purchase

Location: Gloucestershire + Nationwide

Salary: £Very Competitive + Car / allowance + benefits

Overview:

To identify, negotiate and acquire interests in strategic land suitable for future development and enable the Company to progress those interests to a stage whereby planning consent can be implemented. All to be in accordance with the Land Best Practice Manual.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish, in conjunction with the Strategic Land Director, the priority areas for the purchase of land.
• To develop and maintain regular contacts with land agents/owners within the area of operation.
• To monitor the Development Plans to identify possible future development sites suitable for purchase under option.
• To discuss with Local Planning Authorities the future potential of land for development.
• To identify suitable land with potential for development in the future and to assist in acquiring the site under conditional contract, option or promotional agreement at suitable terms.
• To prepare a monthly report outlining contacts made and progress in identification, negotiation and offers made for land and outlining the key issues and resolutions.
• To instigate the necessary technical investigations required to ensure that the land can be satisfactorily developed.
• Provide a summary of a comprehensive pre-acquisition appraisal and financial viability to the Chief Executive and Division Managing Director in support of the recommendation to acquire a conditional contract, option or promotion agreement.
• Prior to purchase, prepare a constraints plan for each option site and establish a programme, with a schedule of costs for promoting each option site.
• At appropriate times of the year to walk the boundaries of all land owned/under option to ensure no encroachment has taken place and identify any hazards evident on site. To communicate such finds through the business and to project manage the resolution of issues arising.
• To maintain a register of all ransom strips within the area of control and to monitor these to ensure their use is maximised and unauthorised use does not occur.