Senior Solicitor Planning amp Environmental Law

Profile

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 senior 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

Company info

Blandy & Blandy LLP
Website : https://www.blandy.co.uk/