Job Description
PLANNING LAWYER, 5+ YEARS EXPERIENCE, WEST YORKSHIRE/ HYBRID, up to £61,358 DOE – Are you looking to take a senior legal position within a local authority? This role offers a varied workload, covering but not limited to advising on highways, environmental matters, and complex planning while leading and developing a specialist legal team. JOB REF: 6077
THE ROLE:
The successful Senior Planning Lawyer will be expected to:
• Provide expert legal advice across planning, environmental, highways and traffic matters, public rights of way, Town and Village Greens and compulsory purchase orders.
• Draft, negotiate and advise on complex planning and highways agreements.
• Handle enforcement matters, legal challenges, and contentious planning issues.
• Play a key role in supporting planning inquiries and judicial reviews, undertaking advocacy where required.
• Deliver engaging legal training and share your expertise to support the wider team.
• Mentor and guide colleagues, helping to develop talent and maintain an exceptional standard of legal service.
THE CANDIDATE:
To be successful in this role, you will bring a wealth of legal expertise, strong leadership skills, and the confidence to take ownership of complex matters. You will ideally have:
• Substantial senior-level experience in planning law, and be a qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive.
• Recent experience in at least two additional areas, such as highways, public rights of way, compulsory purchase, or local government law.
• Excellent technical, drafting and negotiation skills, coupled with confident communication and advocacy abilities.
• The ability to manage complex legal matters independently, providing clear and authoritative advice.
• Previous experience supervising or managing colleagues, with a natural ability to mentor and support others.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, build relationships and drive positive change.
THE PACKAGE:
In return, you'll enjoy an excellent package and the opportunity to make a real impact, including:
• Competitive salary and generous annual leave entitlement.
• Senior-level responsibility and involvement in high-profile strategic legal matters.
• The opportunity to lead, shape and develop a specialist legal team.
• A varied and stimulating caseload spanning planning, highways, environmental and local government law.
• Hybrid working, with just two days per month required in the office.
HOW TO APPLY:
Contact Kaye Thumpston on 0207 183 8586 or email kaye.thumpston@enllegal.co.uk with your CV or simply call for a confidential discussion.
eNL will never share your CV with a third party without your express permission. As part of our candidate care process, we aim to respond to all applications in 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide.
At eNL we value diversity and inclusion. We want to attract people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates, whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any characteristics protected by law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
THE ROLE:
The successful Senior Planning Lawyer will be expected to:
• Provide expert legal advice across planning, environmental, highways and traffic matters, public rights of way, Town and Village Greens and compulsory purchase orders.
• Draft, negotiate and advise on complex planning and highways agreements.
• Handle enforcement matters, legal challenges, and contentious planning issues.
• Play a key role in supporting planning inquiries and judicial reviews, undertaking advocacy where required.
• Deliver engaging legal training and share your expertise to support the wider team.
• Mentor and guide colleagues, helping to develop talent and maintain an exceptional standard of legal service.
THE CANDIDATE:
To be successful in this role, you will bring a wealth of legal expertise, strong leadership skills, and the confidence to take ownership of complex matters. You will ideally have:
• Substantial senior-level experience in planning law, and be a qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive.
• Recent experience in at least two additional areas, such as highways, public rights of way, compulsory purchase, or local government law.
• Excellent technical, drafting and negotiation skills, coupled with confident communication and advocacy abilities.
• The ability to manage complex legal matters independently, providing clear and authoritative advice.
• Previous experience supervising or managing colleagues, with a natural ability to mentor and support others.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, build relationships and drive positive change.
THE PACKAGE:
In return, you'll enjoy an excellent package and the opportunity to make a real impact, including:
• Competitive salary and generous annual leave entitlement.
• Senior-level responsibility and involvement in high-profile strategic legal matters.
• The opportunity to lead, shape and develop a specialist legal team.
• A varied and stimulating caseload spanning planning, highways, environmental and local government law.
• Hybrid working, with just two days per month required in the office.
HOW TO APPLY:
Contact Kaye Thumpston on 0207 183 8586 or email kaye.thumpston@enllegal.co.uk with your CV or simply call for a confidential discussion.
eNL will never share your CV with a third party without your express permission. As part of our candidate care process, we aim to respond to all applications in 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide.
At eNL we value diversity and inclusion. We want to attract people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates, whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any characteristics protected by law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
