Planning and Design

Policy shifts and new legislation can change project viability, timelines, and stakeholder expectations in a heartbeat.

Without the right team in place, projects stall, and land sits idle.

Spirit Executive helps you secure planners and designers who can put ideas into action and turn potential into real value.

Client testimonial

“Spirit Executive provides a highly professional service and consistently delivers high-quality candidates in specialist, non-mainstream sectors.”

David Pretswell, Project Development Director, Power Projects, Jacobs

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Our Guarantee

Fees fixed and staged in thirds

Payments tied to progress so we are accountable to you from the start, and fixed so there is no hidden escalation of your budget.

Retainer refunded if no acceptable shortlist

If we cannot produce an acceptable shortlist, the initial retainer is returned to you, no questions.

Twelve-month replacement guarantee

If a Director-level hire fails within 12 months, we replace them or refund the fee. Your risk stays low long after the search ends.

Collaboration between planning and design disciplines and innovation are key to great placemaking which is essential for the future of our towns and cities.

Consultants at Spirit Executive have worked in the planning and design industries for almost 21 years. We have successfully placed a diverse array of town and transport planners, architects, urban designers and landscape architects both in the UK and abroad; developing partnerships with firms ranging from the world’s largest multi disciplinary engineering companies to smaller partnership led practices.

Through these relationships, our consultants have gained an understanding of the key skills that are necessary to design and build a variety of the structures being built today and the challenges our partners/clients face in an ever changing world.

We truly believe you are only as good as your people, so its not just about the technical skills, but also well rounded leadership and commercial skills that are required in todays competitive world as well as an individuals ability to develop and grow.


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Getting it right is something that we are passionate about and strongly believe in.

The built environment has the ability to inspire everyone’s imagination, to enable social interactions with friends, family, the community and nature.

The places and spaces that people inhabit fundamentally influence their enjoyment of life, so getting it right should be a priority for us all.

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