Planning Solicitor – Jnr / Mid PQE

Overview

In this role you will advise on planning applications and development control, manage appeals and enforcement, and support major infrastructure and energy projects. You will work within the firm’s expanding real estate and infrastructure practice alongside developers, energy providers, and local authorities. You will handle planning and environmental law matters, including EIAs and regulatory compliance, and may undertake advocacy at hearings. This role offers exposure to high-profile NI projects, with clear routes to progression. Hybrid, supportive culture with a competitive salary.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid/flexible working
• tailored benefits package
• competitive salary
• clear routes to career progression
• professional development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Advising on planning applications, consents, and development control
• Manage planning appeals, enforcement, and public inquiries
• Oversee EIAs and Habitats Regulations compliance
• Handle judicial reviews and statutory challenges
• Manage planning enforcement and regulatory compliance
• Support major infrastructure, energy, and commercial real estate projects
• Collaborate with developers, energy companies, authorities, and landowners

Key requirements

• Qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland
• Ideal dual qualification
• 2–6 years PQE in planning and/or environmental law
• Familiar with NI planning frameworks and regulatory regimes; ideally other regions
• Detail-oriented, commercially aware, capable of handling a dynamic caseload
• Confident, autonomous but collaborative; ambitious
• Advocacy or representation at planning hearings is welcome but not essential

• Detail-oriented
• Commercially aware
• Confident
• Planning law
• Environmental law
• EIA (Environmental Impact Assessments)

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