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Head of Area Regeneration (x 3 - East, Central, West)
Client: London Borough of Hounslow
Location: London
Salary: Salary: £70,152 - £83,860
Closing date: Sunday, 08 June 2025 23:30
About us at Hounslow
Hounslow Council is at the forefront of urban transformation, pioneering a comprehensive Business Case for Growth that aims far beyond mere economic development. Our initiative is a blueprint for vibrant, sustainable communities that harness the full potential of our borough. Through strategic regeneration from Feltham to the Golden Mile and Brentford, we're unlocking opportunities, attracting investment, and creating thousands of new homes and jobs.
Our ambitious plans include delivering 28,800 new homes by 2041, crucially addressing housing shortages and building lively community hubs. We're not just providing housing; we're enhancing local economies and social outcomes, directly tackling issues of housing unaffordability and tenure disparity with the Opportunity Hounslow programme.
This pivotal moment in our history is about turning challenges into opportunities, ensuring Hounslow stands as a beacon of inclusive and sustainable growth aligned with government agendas. We're looking for passionate individuals to join us in this journey. Be part of our mission to make Hounslow a place where everyone can thrive. Embrace the chance to impact real change and grow with a leading council dedicated to community and innovation
About the Role
Reporting into the Assistant Director for Area Regeneration, the focus of this role is as a 'steward for place' for a group of designated regeneration areas, taking a strategic approach to regeneration and growth.
Harnessing strategic investment and partnerships, you will be responsible for driving forward programmes of investment into our neighbourhoods for the benefit of our communities. You will lead on the development and delivery of masterplans, town centre visions, seeking to maximise the potential of sites developed through the Asset Management Strategy and the Local Plan, and ensuring alignment with the council's localities approach.
About You
You will be a natural collaborator who will align council and partner resources to unlock and accelerate regeneration delivery. You will have excellent communication skills, financial and commercial acumen, and be adept at establishing and developing partnership working with a range of partners (public, private, third sector). You may have a background in planning, architecture, surveying, we welcome a broad skillset and range of delivery experience that will need to be brought to bear to ensure delivery in these key roles.
We would like to hear from committed regeneration service leaders who can focus our significant ambitions for inclusive growth. Apply now and make a difference to the future of Hounslow!
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix, and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
For a confidential conversation about this role, please contact our retained consultants at Penna: Brian Gallagher via or call
For further information on the exciting work currently underway and planned please visit: www.opportunityhounslow.com
Closing date: 11:30pm, Sunday 8th June 2025
Interview Dates: 23rd & 24th June 2025
