About the Role
We are looking for a Planning Solicitor to join our Planning, Environmental, Energy and Regulatory team. This role will be predominantly supporting the team, but also managing your own case load. Experience in Environmental, Energy and/or Regulatory matters would be beneficial but not essential.
We will consider candidates from newly qualified up to 5 years PQE and experience of dealing with both contentious and non-contentious planning matters including applications, appeals, section 106 agreements, High Court challenges and Judicial Reviews, breaches and lawfulness including applications for Certificates of Lawfulness, enforcement and prosecutions, section 38/s278 highways agreements, public rights of way and village greens, objections, CPO, BNG and CIL.
You will be a confident person with excellent communication skills and be at ease dealing with a diverse range of clients.
You will have a commercial approach, be good at working to deadlines and be able to demonstrate excellent file management and client care. You will have the ability to manage several cases at once, ensuring that each client receives excellent service.
You will have a willingness to get involved in the team and firm’s marketing and business development activities, such as social and networking events.
About the Team
Our highly regarded team has an enviable reputation and is ranked in The Legal 500. The team has a strong client base and acts for a wide range of mainly private but also public sector clients including housebuilders, developers, supermarkets, charities, utility companies, estates/landowners, and individuals, and handles a variety of high-quality work.
Examples include public inquiries relating to a variety of matters including housing and renewable energy schemes, and enforcement appeals, and section 106 agreements relating to large scale housing schemes.
The PEER Team is led by David Harries and includes Mark Turner, a Partner who specialises in Planning Law.
About Aaron & Partners LLP
We are a highly reputable top 200 law firm with offices in Chester and Shrewsbury, Altrincham and Wirral and have achieved more than 20 recommendations from the two main independent legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
We pride ourselves on providing high quality, results focused legal advice through a dedicated partner-led service. Much of the work we undertake is ‘bespoke’, requiring unique solutions to unique problems and a breadth of commercial understanding and appreciation.
The firm positively encourages solicitors at all levels to take on as much responsibility as they are comfortable with. We want individuals who are keen to build and broaden their technical abilities.
The firm is growing, ambitious and constantly evolving and we expect the same from employees.
Hours of Work & Benefits
This is a full time position, based at our Chester office.
We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package including:
- 26 days annual holiday increasing with long service
- Enhanced pension
- Healthcare scheme
- Death in service benefit (4 x annual salary)
- Supported parking scheme
- and more…
We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally and without discrimination.
As a firm we proactively promote a positive working environment and “The A&P Way”
