As a Senior Planning Lawyer you will play a pivotal role in providing expert legal advice on planning, highways, and environmental matters. You will manage and motivate a segment of the Highways, Planning, and Environment Team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Legal Expertise

• Offer comprehensive legal advice on planning, highways, and environmental issues, managing complex casework with a high degree of professional discretion.
• To have conduct of a caseload of predominantly planning matters including but not restricted to s106 agreements, enforcement matters, s38, s278, public rights of way and other planning and licence/consent matters.

Leadership: 

• Manage and motivate a segment of the Highways, Planning, and Environment Team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality legal services, maintaining professionalism and accountability within your team.

Problem Solving: 

• Utilise your expertise to address and resolve highly complex and high-risk service problems, supporting the Council’s objectives.

Resource Management: 

• Collaborate with other team managers to effectively resource services and meet functional objectives.

This role is ideal for an experienced legal professional with experience of planning law, if you would like to arrange an informal conversation, please contact either:

Andrew McNally (Head of Legal) Andrew.McNally@lancashire.gov.uk

Jane Turner (Principal Lawyer) jane.turner@lancashire.gov.uk

Deadline for applications is to be 24 November 2024 with interviews scheduled for week commencing 2nd  December 2024.

Job Description & Person Specification

Closing date: 24 November 2024

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