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Role: Planning Solicitor
Department: Real Estate team
Salary: Depending on experience
PQE: Considering all PQE levels
Location: Leeds
Current size of planning team: 3 within planning
Hybrid working: Yes, 2 days’ work from home for candidates further afield hybrid working is negotiable
Hours: 9am – 5pm
Case management system: Partner for Windows
Start date: ASAP
Planning Solicitor role
We are looking for an experienced Planning Solicitor to join our well-regarded team. Renowned for delivering clear, commercially strategic, and pragmatic advice, the team offers the flexibility to work either as part of a wider consultancy group or as sole advisers, depending on client needs.
The Role
We will provide you with the opportunity to act on both contentious and non-contentious planning matters including:
- Drafting and negotiating complex s.106 agreements
- Advising on highways issues
- Advising on planning objections and appeals
- Dealing with enforcement matters
- Advising on Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- Guiding on permitted development rights and the prior approval process
- Telecoms objections
- Town and village green matters
- Providing support on due diligence and the planning aspects of real estate and corporate transactions
What we are looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious planning solicitor to join a well-regarded Planning and wider Real Estate team. We encourage and foster business development skills and the successful candidate will take an active part in helping to build our business and will benefit from working closely with clients across the house building, retail, energy, investment, leisure, and minerals sectors.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- The ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
- Proven experience in delivering high-quality work to strict deadlines
- A collaborative and team-focused mindset
- Calm and composed approach under pressure
- Excellent attention to detail
