Senior Environment & Planning Solicitor - £95K Worthing

Job Title: Senior Environment and Planning Solicitor

Location: Durrington (Worthing), West Sussex and/or Falmer, Brighton

Employment type: Permanent

Hours: 37 (Mon-Fri)

Salary: Up to £95,000 subject to knowledge and experience (plus 10% bonus and £400 per month car allowance and other benefits).

Our utilities client is currently seeking a Senior Environment and Planning Solicitor Business Analyst to join their team in or around Worthing. This role will be reporting to Head of Legal, the Senior Environment and Planning Solicitor will providing focused accurate, effective and timely legal advice, analysis and support to the relevant business function on environmental and planning issues to enable the business function to meet /manage its objectives.
Responsibilities:

• Wide range of BAU environmental and planning legal matters;
• Assisting with legal aspects of water resource management
• Supporting the Water for Life Hampshire (and related) programme (this is a major programme that relates to water supply demands in Hampshire - see below);
• Assisting with Environmental Information Regulation queries received from our EIR Officer and responses
• Managing external legal resources
• Some strategic input is expected including the setting of policy and recommending improvements to processes and procedures within the area of specialism across the business.
• Provide advice (legal and practical) in a clear, useable way enabling others (at whatever level in the business) to immediately understand key facts and issues.
• Identify areas of risk for the company in relation to environmental, planning, and related regulatory matters and either directly provide or work with others to implement solutions to manage these risks.
• Draft complex legal documents in relation to environmental, planning, and related regulatory matters.

About you:

• Qualified solicitor/barrister with post-qualification experience in environmental and planning law and practice (ideally not less than 5 years PQE, but other relevant experience would be considered).
• Previous experience working on environment and planning issues essential.
• Technical expert in their field and preferably an acknowledged authority.
• Knowledge of statutory and environmental regulations within the UK water industry
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