Senior Solicitor Planning amp Environmental Law

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Our firm:
Blandy & Blandy is a leading Thames Valley law firm, with offices in Reading
and Henley-on-Thames
. With a team of 50 specialist solicitors and advisers, we are here to represent our clients in life and business, committed to developing long-lasting relationships and to delivering outstanding client care. Our successful approach is reflected in a series of rankings, nominations and awards and through the outstanding feedback
we continue to receive. Since 2003, we have also held the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark, which recognises firms that achieve excellence in legal practice management and client care.
This role:
We currently have the following vacancy for a solicitor to join our Planning & Environmental Law team
, based in Reading
Senior Planning Solicitor (5 years’ PQE)
You will work on a broad range of matters, ranging in size and including residential developments, planning appeals and enforcement appeals, planning appraisals, planning obligations and environmental matters including CPO and highways advice, offering an end to end service for landowners and developers. We are regularly instructed by clients including, property developers, charities, education providers, property investors, and financiers, businesses of all shapes and sizes and private individuals on a wide range of planning and environmental matters.
As well as placing us among the UK's top 15 Planning law firms, Planning magazine’s 2020 Planning Law Survey
acknowledged partner and team head Karen Jones as one of the top 10 planning law solicitors in the UK. We are also recommended as a top tier firm in both of the UK's leading guides to law firms, Chambers UK
and The Legal 500
Key responsibilities include:
Managing an agreed caseload of clients in conjunction with the Department Manager
Processing clients’ cases on a timely and cost effective basis
Maintaining the highest professional standards in accordance with the firm’s objectives and comply with the firm’s quality standards
Keeping clients fully informed of the range of services that the firm offers
Supervising junior staff, particularly trainees, from time to time
The successful candidate will:
Have at least a 2.1 degree
Have completed training at a recognised and respected firm, a local planning authority or other public body
Be enthusiastic and hard working
Have good written and verbal communication skills
Be a team player and reputable
Share and embody our values of excellence, integrity and approachability
A competitive salary and benefits package
is offered dependent upon experience. Please also see what colleagues say about working at our firm

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