Interim Planning Lawyer (Part Time)
London Borough of Bexley
Contract role – 6 Months Initially
Hourly rate negotiable
Part Time Role: At least 3 days per week, Wednesday is a must.
Availability to attend committee meeting on a Thursday evening and some office attendance.
Office attendance: 1 day per week in office (minimum)
Office Address: Civic Offices, 2 Watling Street, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7AT
Key responsibilities:
- Identify and advise on the political, operational and other risk issues in relation to various issues and casework, including issues that have arisen outside of the Legal Service and are not necessarily the subject of instructions.
- Identify improvements in legal case management and service delivery
- Ensure that legal costs across the teams do not exceed relevant budgets
- Identify creative and facilitative solutions to client problems
- Where required advise on committee reports and internal reports and to advise on various public administrative and constitutional issues
- Provide legal advice to clients and colleagues
- Draft, comment and negotiate legal documents for example relating to s106 agreements, highway agreements and licences, the taking of planning enforcement action.
- Assist with Planning appeals and judicial reviews
- Instruct counsel, external solicitors, consultants and experts where appropriate and necessary
- Deputise for the Senior Planning Lawyer at planning committee meetings and provide advice to officers and members if required.
- Carry out a caseload with minimal supervision.
- Ensure clients are kept abreast of recent developments in the law
- Provide appropriate client care, including regular updates and information
- Attend evening (e.g. committees & events within the borough) and from time to time and to work hours required to meet pressing deadlines that may exceed contracted hours.
- Any other task that reasonably fall within the remit of the job.
If you have any questions about this role or wish to apply, please contact isobel@deekay.co.uk who will respond at the earliest convenience.
