Executive Director of Place

With our ground-breaking approach to strategic area-based regeneration in place Opportunity Hounslow Business Case for Growth setting out our plans to align our ambition and growth to has been carefully planned to benefit all our communities. This is your chance to lead one of London’s most aspiring growth and regeneration agendas. Hounslow is a borough on the move.

Through Opportunity Hounslow, we are delivering one of the capital’s most exciting regeneration strategies –transforming our town centres, delivering new homes at scale, creating jobs and investment opportunities, and embedding climate resilience into everything we do. We are now seeking a new Executive Director of Inclusive Growth & Place to lead this bold agenda. This is a role of scale, visibility and influence:

• Own the end-to-end growth agenda: spanning regeneration, housing and planning, with a remit to shape the future of the whole borough.
• Drive inclusive and sustainable outcomes: ensuring that every community benefits from change, and that growth aligns with our climate and net zero ambitions.
• Represent Hounslow regionally and nationally: leveraging partnerships with the GLA, TfL, government, developers and investors to unlock delivery and attract external capital.
• Lead our talented teams: inspiring regeneration, housing, planning, traffic management and transport planning professionals to deliver at pace, with a culture of innovation, accountability and collaboration.

We are looking for a strategic, values driven leader with a proven track record of executive leadership in regeneration, housing and planning. Someone with the political acumen, convening power and commercial insight to deliver results at scale.

This is more than a service leadership role, it is a chance to shape the future of one of London’s most diverse, dynamic and ambitious boroughs.

We serve a diverse community, we employ a diverse workforce, and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. We invest in representation, employee networks and learning programmes that actively eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment (candidates can state what they need in the application form).

London Borough of Hounslow, Executive Director of Place – Candidate Briefing Pack

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11:59pm, Sunday 11th January 2026

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