Planning Lawyer 3-4 years PQE - London, United Kingdom - Pinsent Masons

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Planning Lawyer 3-4 years PQE

Planning Lawyer - 3-4 years PQE

Location: London, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a qualified planning lawyer to join the Development Planning subteam within our market leading Planning & Environment team. Ideally this person will be based in our London office but candidates looking to locate to any of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds will also be considered.

We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate who has between 3-4 years' PQE, who is admitted and qualified in England & Wales and has experience advising on Town and Country Planning Act 1990 matters, compulsory acquisition/purchase and compensation matters, EIA/HRA, inquiries and judicial review.

About the Team

We are the largest dedicated planning team in the UK with 75 lawyers 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 Real Estate sector and lawyers who predominantly work in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors. We are looking for candidates who have the experience and would like to work alongside these lawyers, but who will predominantly wok in the Real Estate sector.

Our team advises on market leading projects for a range of public and private sector clients. Our work includes major urban regeneration schemes, tall buildings, estate regeneration, residential, commercial and sport developments, Garden Settlements and over-station developments.

Key clients

• Greater London Authority
• Land Securities
• Lendlease
• London Legacy Development Corporation
• Berkeley Homes
• Clarion Housing

Work highlights

• Advising Land Securities on all planning matters in order to secure planning permission for Landsec's Timber Square, a net zero carbon office development in Lavington Street;
• Advising Havering and Wates Regeneration LLP on a £1bn regeneration programme to regenerate 12 estates across the London Borough of Havering;
• Advised the Wellcome Trust on all planning related matters concerning the Wellcome Genome Campus Expansion Project at Hinxton, South Cambridgeshire.
• Advising the Mayor of London on a number of high-profile 'called-in' planning applications including Beam Park, 5 Kingdom Street, Vinegar Yard and the former Stage Brewery, Mortlake
• Advising the London Legacy Development Corporation in its capacity as local planning authority on all planning applications and related planning law matters associated with the legacy phase redevelopment of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford
• Advising Berkeley Homes on a number of its high-profile development schemes including South Quay Plaza; North Street, Guildford; and Hartland Village, Hampshire.

Testimonials

\"The team at Pinsent Masons handles the most complex matters and offers solutions and sound advice.\"

\"Pinsent Masons' advice is always sound and well considered.\"

Chambers, 2024

'It is the premier UK team when it comes to large-scale consenting projects and DCO work in the planning space. The team is knowledgeable and approachable from the top down.'

Legal 500, 2024

The team ranked as Tier 1 and known as the largest planning team in the UK.

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.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham.

Put simply, we offer a wide range of professional services to our clients, enabled by our breadth of expertise, our culture and values, and our innovative approach.

You will be an integral part of our UK Real Estate Team which brings together multidisciplined and mixed-use development expertise which allows us to provide full spectrum advice to deliver the most complex projects.

You can be proud to be part of a forward-looking and innovative legal business, with a comprehensive platform of complementary professional services and expertise (including Legal Project Management, Diversity & Inclusion Consultancy, Cyber/Data/Tech specialists and a dedicated Climate Change Advisory team to name a few).

You will be part of our market leading practice that is consistently recognised in the top tiers by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners and which won Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2021.

You will be supported by the UK's largest Planning Team, with a number of the UK's top 10 ranked Planning Partners. You will also have the support of a construction practice that is recognised as Global#1 and our transactional property and property litigation specialists (including market leading Rights of Light and Development Constraints experts).

You will be working for a firm that has:

• an ESG Board Committee to inform the firm on its ESG and sustainability targets and metrics and support for clients with each member leading specific firm wide ESG objectives.
• supported 130 charity partners on social impact programmes and supported 30,000 young people in our commitment to inspire young lives.
• advanced senior leadership gender parity, creating an all-female leadership team for the firm's Australian three office network.
• exceeded our 20% minority ethnic UK trainee target achieving 21.4%.

Awards

We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500 .

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations -

What will we offer you?

• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first class training and career development programme, monthly 121s, career discussions and biannual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver \"best of breed\" services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you do this, please let us know.

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor, Johenn Choi, who can discuss the role and requirements. Please note that we only accept applications that are submitted via the Pinsent Masons careers website.

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#LI-LRJCBriefWe are currently looking to recruit a qualified planning lawyer to join the Development Planning subteam within our market leading Planning & Environment team. Ideally this person will be based in our London office but candidates looking to locate to any of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds will also be considered.We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate who has between 3-4 years' PQE, who is admitted and qualified in England & Wales and has experience advising on Town and Country Planning Act 1990 matters, compulsory acquisition/purchase and compensation matters, EIA/HRA, inquiries and judicial review.