Planning Lawyer

Job Description

About the job.

Join National Highways as a Lawyer and make a real impact!

You'll provide clear, pragmatic legal advice across planning, highways, and environmental law, helping shape decisions that keep our roads safe and efficient. Working alongside experienced Lawyers and Senior Lawyers, you'll support complex cases and draw on specialist expertise to protect the best interests of National Highways every step of the way.

This is a hybrid position (40% office based) and can be based from either our Guildford, Bristol or Birmingham offices and will include some travel to other offices to attend meetings.

• Provide advice on development consent orders, transport and work act orders, local development orders, compulsory purchase, highways law, permitted development, spatial planning issues, , town and country planning matters, including planning inquiries and appeals, plus environmental law all to protect the interests of National Highways.
• Act as the legal expert for National Highways, resolving any queries, providing clear, concise advice and direction and providing support to Senior Lawyers on complex matters where required.
• Advise on reputational risk, ensuring the horizon is scanned, pulling together conflicting priorities and manage expectations of a range of stakeholders to provide the best possible legal service to National Highways.
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