Planning Senior Associate

"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 a Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Planning team based in our London 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 are trusted advisers to national and international clients across sectors, especially the built environment and energy & infrastructure sectors., Projects include regeneration and iconic development projects, mixed use and residential development, commercial and logistics projects, major retail developments, in addition to regional scale and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in the energy transition and infrastructure space. We also advise on contentious planning matters together with environmental compliance, permitting and the contaminated land regime. Our approach is to work hand-in-hand with colleagues across practice areas, to provide a comprehensive and holistic advisory service to our clients.

Our clients 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 Strategic Land, Countryside Homes, Barratt and David Wilson Homes, Vistry Homes, Taylor Wimpey, Sovereign Housing, Keepmoat Homes, Bloor Homes, Foresight Group, NGED, RWE and Bluefield Group.

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

https://www.osborneclarke.com/services/real-estate/planning/

The team

The team isled by partners John Baird, Neil Bromwich and Christian Silk and operates as one team across our London and Bristol offices. It is also made up of 3 Associate Directors, 1 Senior Associate, 5Associates and 3 Trainee Solicitors.

The work

• We continue to act for GLP on several state-of-the-art logistics facilities such as Magna Park Lutterworth, G-Park Ashby and Willen House, Milton Keynes.
• 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 27-acre 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 M25.
• 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.
• We were lead legal advisors to Ecotricity on their Heckington Fen Solar Park NSIP and NGED on the Brechfa Forest Wind Farm Connection NSIP.

Technical skills and experience

Due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking to recruit an ambitious Senior Associate experienced in advising clients across sectors, particularly the built environment and possibly environmental matters and who will be interested in maintaining abroad sector-led practice ..

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.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins at angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and 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 value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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