Legal Planning Assistant

We are working on a new opportunity with an expanding Leisure Company.

Supporting the In-house Planning lawyer, you will be responsible for:

• Research Local Planning Authority policies and planning register records when necessary.
• Liaising with Local Planning Authority officers in connection with the accountabilities.
• Identifying and advising directors on planning and regulatory constraints to development projects.
• Assisting in securing new planning permissions.
• Negotiating related planning obligations where required.
• Making applications for certificates of lawful established or proposed use and to identify cases where such applications might be in the interest of the company to make.
• Assisting in making statutory appeals again refusals of planning permission and identifying settlement of such appeals.

Skillset:

• Degree/post-graduate in Town Planning and/or regulatory legal qualification.
• Knowledge and practical experience of development control procedures, regulation and decision making both by Local Planning Authorities and by the Planning Inspectorate.

If you have the skills described above and are interested in the opportunity, please do kindly share your CV with Sarah on sturnbull@lawabsolute.com

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