Planning Associate - Consenting Energy and Infrastructure

Job description

PLANNING ASSOCIATE/SENIOR ASSOCIATE - CONSENTING ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCUTRE

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a qualified consenting lawyer to join our market leading Planning & Environment team. We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate with upwards of 3 year's PQE years' PQE experience with a focus on all or any of the Electricity Act 1989, , the Town and Country Planning Acts, Planning Act 2008, the Transport and Works Acts, harbour orders, compulsory acquisition/purchase and compensation matters, EIA/HRA, inquiries/examinations and judicial review.

What our Planning & Environment team is known for:

We are the largest dedicated planning team in the UK with specialists covering a wide range of major projects across the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors. Within our team, we have lawyers who predominantly work in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors and lawyers who predominantly work in the Real Estate sector, as well as lawyers who do both. We are looking for candidates who have the experience and would like to work alongside these lawyers.

Our Energy & Infrastructure consenting specialists are advising on some of the country's most high profile projects, covering all forms of energy, such as offshore wind, large scale solar, carbon capture plants, nuclear, energy networks, interconnectors and pipelines, and infrastructure, such as water infrastructure, flood defence, airports, new roads, rail, and rapid transit systems. Key clients in these sectors include;

• SSE
• Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
• Marubeni
• bp
• Thistle Wind Partners
• RWE
• Statkraft
• Vattenfall
• Baywa
• Orsted
• EDF
• Drax Power
• Thames Water
• Anglian Water
• United Utilities
• Southern Water
• Environment Agency
• National Highways

Work highlights include:

• Advising SSE on the 4.1GW Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm;
• Advising on six Offshore Wind Farms, comprising over 10GW of the capacity awarded through the ScotWind offshore leasing round plus INTOG and Celtic Sea projects;
• Advising RWE, Statkraft, Vattenfall, Gallileo and a host of other onshore wind developers on a significant number of new onshore wind applications;
• Advising on the Red John Pumped Storage Hydro scheme in Highlands;
• Advising Thames Water and Anglian Water on their Strategic Resource Option scheme, including three reservoirs, water recycling and water transfer projects
• Advising Orsted on its Development Consent Orders for Hornsea Offshore Wind Farms Projects 3 and 4;
• Advising on the largest utility scale solar and battery farm Development Consent Order;
• Advising on the country's leading carbon capture projects for BP, Drax and Cory;
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• Advising National Highways on the its most complex and controversial DCO applications, including the £1.9bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme (the Stonehenge Tunnel) and the A66 Trans Pennine scheme.
• Advising on the judicial review of multiple schemes on carbon, habitats and heritage grounds, amongst others.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience with a large regional or national practice. They will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about, and demonstrate a track record of, business development. They will be a team player with a strong client focused approach.

Lawyers joining this friendly and dynamic team will encounter a broad range of work in Scotland and across the UK, (with the potential to get involved in international advice too) acting for a range of market leading and high profile clients on large and nationally significant projects.

What will we offer you?

• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first class training and career development programme, fortnightly 121s, career discussions and twice yearly appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader and will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver the highest quality of services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Awards

We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades

Should you require further details, please contact our in house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the role and requirements. Please note that we only accept applications that are submitted via the portal.

Contact details:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anwen-wallington-36177ba1/

[email protected]

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

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#INDLWe are currently looking to recruit a qualified consenting lawyer to join our market leading Planning & Environment team. We are ideally looking to recruit a candidate with upwards of 3 year's PQE years' PQE experience with a focus on all or any of the Electricity Act 1989, , the Town and Country Planning Acts, Planning Act 2008, the Transport and Works Acts, harbour orders, compulsory acquisition/purchase and compensation matters, EIA/HRA, inquiries/examinations and judicial review.