Planning Associate – Energy and Infrastructure Specialist

4 weeks ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom Pinsent Masons Full time

Planning Associate/ Senior Associate – Consenting Energy and Infrastructure

Brief

We are seeking a qualified consenting lawyer to join our market-leading Planning & Environment team. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on the Electricity Act 1989, the Town and Country Planning Acts, the Planning Act 2008, the Transport and Works Acts, harbour orders, compulsory acquisition/purchase and compensation matters, EIA/HRA, inquiries/examinations and judicial review.

What our Planning & Environment team is known for:

We are the largest dedicated planning team in the UK, with specialists covering a wide range of major projects across the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors. Our team has lawyers who predominantly work in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors and lawyers who predominantly work in the Real Estate sector, as well as lawyers who do both.

Our Energy & Infrastructure consenting specialists are advising on some of the country's most high-profile projects, covering all forms of energy, such as offshore wind, large-scale solar, carbon capture plants, nuclear, energy networks, interconnectors and pipelines, and infrastructure, such as water infrastructure, flood defence, airports, new roads, rail, and rapid transit systems. Key clients in these sectors include:

  • SSE
  • Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
  • Marubeni
  • bp
  • Thistle Wind Partners
  • RWE
  • Statkraft
  • Vattenfall
  • Baywa
  • Orsted
  • EDF
  • Drax Power
  • Thames Water
  • Anglian Water
  • United Utilities
  • Southern Water
  • Environment Agency
  • National Highways

Work highlights include:

  • Advising SSE on the 4.1GW Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm;
  • Advising on six Offshore Wind Farms, comprising over 10GW of the capacity awarded through the ScotWind offshore leasing round plus INTOG and Celtic Sea projects;
  • Advising RWE, Statkraft, Vattenfall, Gallileo and a host of other onshore wind developers on a significant number of new onshore wind applications;
  • Advising on the Red John Pumped Storage Hydro scheme in Highlands;
  • Advising Thames Water and Anglian Water on their Strategic Resource Option scheme, including three reservoirs, water recycling and water transfer projects
  • Advising Orsted on its Development Consent Orders for Hornsea Offshore Wind Farms Projects 3 and 4;
  • Advising on the largest utility-scale solar and battery farm Development Consent Order;
  • Advising on the country's leading carbon capture projects for BP, Drax and Cory;
  • Advising National Highways on the its most complex and controversial DCO applications, including the £1.9bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme (the Stonehenge Tunnel) and the A66 Trans Pennine scheme.
  • Advising on the judicial review of multiple schemes on carbon, habitats and heritage grounds, amongst others.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience with a large regional or national practice. They will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about, and demonstrate a track record of, business development. They will be a team player with a strong client-focused approach.

Lawyers joining this friendly and dynamic team will encounter a broad range of work in Scotland and across the UK, (with the potential to get involved in international advice too) acting for a range of market-leading and high-profile clients on large and nationally significant projects.

What will we offer you?

  • We are a market-leading, dynamic and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
  • We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, fortnightly 121s, career discussions and twice-yearly appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader and will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver the highest quality of services.
  • Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.


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