Job Description
Are you a Senior Planning & Highways Lawyer with local government experience who is looking for variety and challenge?
The job
Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking to recruit an experienced, skilled and dynamic Senior Planning and Highways Lawyer with a ‘can do’ enabling approach who will join our Planning & Procurement Team and play a vital role in the next stage of our continuous improvement journey.
Utilising skills and experience gained within a similar position, you will report to the Assistant Head of Legal Services (Planning & Procurement) and will have your own complex and varied caseload which will cover advising on highways and planning matters, including community infrastructure levy, assets of community value, conservation issues, breaches of planning permissions and enforcement notices. You can also expect to regularly cover as legal advisor at the Council’s Planning Board, which routinely hears regeneration and other ambitious development projects.
The role will involve supervising and managing junior staff and providing legal advice and support to committees, members and senior officers, and taking any appropriate measures to ensure continued legal service delivery.
You must be a qualified solicitor or barrister holding a current practising certificate, or Leg...