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Development Surveyor

Development Surveyor

tdm recruitment • Leeds, England, United Kingdom
12 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

TDM Recruitment is working exclusively with an established, financially backed land promotion business to recruit a Development Surveyor for their Leeds office.

This is a hands-on land and development role within a business managing a large and growing portfolio of promotion sites across Yorkshire. The portfolio spans residential schemes from 100 to 2,000 units, commercial and employment land, energy projects, and surplus land disposals — so the work is varied in a way that most housebuilder or agency surveying roles simply aren't.

The team is small, experienced, and operates with a high degree of autonomy. You'll manage your own projects from appraisal and acquisition through promotion, consent, and disposal. No layers of approval. No waiting for someone else to make a decision. Direct access to directors and senior managers who trust their people to get on with it.

If you're in a PLC land team processing appraisals that go nowhere, or in an agency where you never see the commercial outcome of your work, this is a different model entirely.

Responsibilities:

  • Managing development projects through the full lifecycle — land appraisal, acquisition, promotion, consent, and disposal
  • Conducting site appraisals, residual land valuations, and development viability assessments for new opportunities
  • Negotiating and managing option agreements, planning promotional agreements, and conditional contracts with landowners
  • Running the disposal process for consented sites — preparing marketing particulars, managing competitive tenders, negotiating terms with housebuilders and developers
  • Coordinating external consultant teams (planning, legal, engineering, environmental) and managing programme delivery against milestones
  • Managing an existing portfolio of surplus land and property, identifying development potential and progressing disposals
  • Preparing financial appraisals, cashflow models, and investment papers for new site acquisitions
  • Undertaking due diligence on new land opportunities — title, access, infrastructure, environmental constraints, planning history
  • Building and maintaining relationships with housebuilders, developers, land agents, and landowners across the region
  • Reporting project status, financial performance, key risks, and disposal outcomes to senior management
  • Supporting contractual and legal matters — instructing solicitors, reviewing heads of terms, managing completion processes
  • Contributing to emerging workstreams in energy, infrastructure, and environmental land management

Experience & Skills:

  • MRICS qualified (or close to completing APC) with 4–5 years' post-qualification experience
  • A background in one or more of: housebuilder land team, land promotion, development consultancy, property consultancy (development/agency), or public sector / utility estates and land management
  • Experience with development appraisals and residual land valuations — comfortable with the numbers and the assumptions behind them
  • Working knowledge of option agreements, conditional contracts, or promotion agreements — or at minimum the commercial and legal principles involved
  • Track record of managing multi-disciplinary consultant teams and delivering projects against programme
  • Confident negotiating with landowners, agents, housebuilders, and legal teams
  • Commercially sharp — you understand how land value is created through the planning and development process and can articulate it
  • Strong written and verbal communication — you'll be preparing marketing materials, investment papers, and board reports
  • Proficient with standard appraisal tools (Argus Developer, bespoke Excel models, or equivalent)
  • Self-motivated, well-organised, and comfortable working independently within a small team
  • Full UK driving licence

Desirable

  • Experience with surplus land or property disposal — particularly utility, public sector, or institutional portfolios
  • Knowledge of the Yorkshire housebuilder and developer market and active land agents in the region
  • Exposure to energy or infrastructure land transactions (renewables, data centres, battery storage)
  • Experience with Biodiversity Net Gain, natural capital, or environmental land management schemes
  • Rural practice, estate management, or compulsory purchase experience
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