Job Description
Well-regarded commercial law firm in Leeds is looking to recruit a Planning lawyer of 3 or more years’ PQE. The Planning team has specialists covering a wide range of major projects across the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors. Within the team, they have lawyers who predominantly work in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors and lawyers who predominantly work in the Real Estate sector. The 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.
Lawyers joining this friendly and dynamic team will undertake a broad range of work, acting for a range of high-profile clients on large and nationally significant transactions. The successful candidate will 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. You will work predominantly with the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure consenting team. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about, and demonstrate a track record of, business development. You will be a team player with a strong client-focused approach.