Planning Associate/senior Associate - London, United Kingdom - Osborne Clarke

Osborne Clarke

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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"an excellent, client-focused team with broad and deep experience and a range of lawyers of different styles." -_ Chambers & Partners

We have an exciting new vacancy for an Associate or Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Planning team based in either our London office or our Bristol office.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected team with a wide variety of interesting work and clients and a real opportunity to grow and develop your own practice.

The practice
Our planning practice is truly comprehensive in scope and features leading work on a national scale.

We advise on a full range of matters affecting the built environment, including regeneration and iconic development projects, mixed use and residential development, commercial and logistics projects and major retail developments.

We also work nationally important infrastructure projects, such as energy generation and strategic transport and also provide guidance on environmental compliance and procedure.

Our work ranges from initial advice, site appraisals and project management, through to negotiating complex development and infrastructure agreements, and undertaking planning inquiry and High Court work.

This role will also focus on areas such as compulsory purchase agreements and development consent orders, as well as more traditional residential development matters.

We advise clients across a number the real estate sector who are leaders in their fields, including GLP, British Land, Patrizia, Unite Students, Marks and Spencer, St Modwen Developments, Mirastar, Fiera Real Estate, Welbeck Strategic Land, Ptarmigan Strategic Land, Countryside Homes, Barratt and David Wilson Homes, Vistry Homes, Taylor Wimpey, Sovereign Housing, Keepmoat Homes, and Bloor Homes.

To find out more about the practice, please see the link below.

The team

The team is led by partners John Baird and Neil Bromwich and is based across our London and Bristol offices.

It is also made up of 1 Associate Director, 1 Senior Associate, 3 Associate and 2 Trainee Solicitors.

The work

We continue to act for GLP on several stateoftheart logistics facilities such as Magna Park Lutterworth, G-Park Ashby and Willen House, Milton Keynes.
We have advised Ptarmigan and Countryside during the local plan process for the delivery of Chelmsford Garden Village.
We are advising Taylor Wimpey in a joint venture with the London Borough of Waltham Forest on the redevelopment of The Score Centre, Leyton.
We are advising the joint venture between Henry Boot Developments Limited and Enfield Borough Council to deliver a major regeneration project across the 27acre Montagu Industrial Estate in Enfield, North London.
We are advising GLi, a joint venture between Patrizia and Kingston Space Property on the development of large last mile logistics sites within a M2
We continue to advise Welbeck Strategic Land on their proposals for 2,200 homes to be built in a major new urban extension in South Worcester.
We advise M&S on planning aspects of its retail estate portfolio.
We are advising Countryside Properties as the partner of Chichester District Council in the development of a significant strategic land site for 1,500 new homes at Tangmere, near Chichester.
We have advised St Modwen Development Limited in connection with the complex planning aspects of a strategic 1 million sq ft warehouse development located adjacent to Junction 17 of the M4.

Technical skills and experience

Your career development
Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme.

At each stage of your career this provides you with:

- clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress;
- high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
- thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
- robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
- reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

Salary and benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply

At _Osborne Clarke_ we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks not to mention our great teams are a part of making that a reality._
We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can.

We value the health and wellbeing of our people:

for example, we're signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people.