An exciting opportunity to join one of the largest specialist Planning and Environment teams outside of London.

We are looking for a planning solicitor with a keen interest in working on major infrastructure, energy and strategic residential projects. You will work closely with major housebuilders, developers in the industrial, logistics and residential fields, and infrastructure providers, offering his clients tactical advice on large-scale residential, commercial and industrial developments.

You can find out more about our Planning team here.

This is an interesting opportunity for those looking to progress their career and who are ambitious for progression in a top ranked and growing Planning team, with the largest single-site offering based outside of London.

What we are looking for:

• Candidates should have a minimum 1 years PQE as a specialist planning solicitor.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience.
• Earn up to 35% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 5% of your salary. 
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with 40-60% of your time spent in the office. Please speak to the recruitment team to discuss your flexible working preferences.
• Access to BUPA with no excess or compulsory payments.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to ask. We are a Disability Confident employer.