Planning Associate

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Pinsent Masons Full time

CONSENTING LAWYER 2-8 YRS PQE – REGIONAL (BIRMINGHAM, LEEDS OR MANCHESTER) OR LONDON

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit consenting lawyers to join our market leading Planning & Environment, Energy & Infrastructure team. We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate who have between 2-8 years' PQE experience with a focus on all or any of the Planning Act 2008, the Transport and Works Act 1992, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, compulsory acquisition/purchase and compensation matters, EIA/HRA, inquiries/examinations and judicial review. The successful candidate will work predominantly with our Energy & Infrastructure consenting team. 

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. Within our team, we have lawyers who predominantly work in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors and lawyers who predominantly work in the Real Estate sector. We are looking for candidates who have the experience and would like to work alongside these lawyers.

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 and pipelines, and infrastructure, such as water infrastructure, airports, new roads, rail, and rapid transit systems. Key clients in these sectors include;

Orsted EDF BP Drax Power National Highways Transport for London Heathrow Airport Southern Water

Work highlights include:

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; Securing planning permission for Southampton Airport’s runway extension and successfully defending the permission in the High Court; Advising National Highways on the successful DCO application for the £1.9bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme (the Stonehenge Tunnel).

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 focussed approach. 

Lawyers joining this friendly and dynamic team will encounter a broad range of work, acting for a range of high profile clients on large and nationally significant transactions. Whilst the successful candidate will sit within our UK national Property Group, they will have close links to our Energy and Infrastructure Sectors.


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