Associate Director

Description:

We have an exciting new vacancy for an Associate Director to join our highly regarded Planning team based in either our Bristol or London office.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected team with a wide variety of interesting contentious and non-contentious work and clients and a real opportunity to grow and develop your own practice.

The practice

Our planning practice is truly comprehensive in scope and features leading work on a national scale.

We are trusted advisers to national and international clients across sectors, especially the built environment and energy & infrastructure sectors. Projects include regeneration and iconic development projects, mixed use and residential development, commercial and logistics projects, major retail developments, in addition to regional scale and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in the energy transition and infrastructure space. We also advise on contentious planning matters together with environmental compliance, permitting and the contaminated land regime. Our approach is to work hand-in-hand with colleagues across practice areas, to provide a comprehensive and holistic advisory service to our clients.

The team

The team is led by partners John Baird, Neil Bromwich and Christian Silk and operates as one team across our London and Bristol offices. It is also made up of 2 Associate Directors, 3 Senior Associates, 3 Associates, 2 Trainee Solicitors and 1 Solicitor Apprentice.

The work
 

• We continue to act for Marq on several state-of-the-art logistics facilities such as Magna Park Lutterworth, and Magna Park Corby.
• Advising Gleeson Land on their proposed development in South Aylesbury for 1400 homes.
• We are advising BDW and Davidsons on an urban extension to the north-east of Daventry including circa 3,400 dwellings.
• We are advising GLi, a joint venture between Patrizia and Kingston Space Property on the development of large last mile logistics sites within the M25.
• We continue to advise Welbeck Strategic Land on their proposals for 2,200 homes to be built in a major new urban extension in South Worcester.
• We advise M&S on planning aspects of its retail estate portfolio.
• We are advising Vistry Homes as the partner of Chichester District Council in the development of a significant strategic land site for 1,500 new homes at Tangmere, near Chichester.