Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
LBH looking for senior lawyer with experience of regeneration, High Court appeals and judicial reviews!
- Job ad here, appears they're getting ready to take on any challenges to their plans.
- Senior Lawyer (Legal officer)
- Department: Chief Executive Service
- Salary: Grade: PO6 – PO7, £42,027 - £47,706 per annum
- Closing Date: 20/07/2014
- Reference: HDD/5137
- Hours: Permanent
Haringey Legal services is committed to delivering an ambitious, efficient and high quality legal service enabling the council to deliver its ‘One Borough, One Future’ objectives. We are looking for confident, motivated people with strong communication and influencing skills to be part of our excellent legal team.
About the role
These are truly exceptional and exciting times to be a Planning Lawyer within the Council, given the Corporate Plan priority to deliver regeneration at priority locations across the Borough, coupled with the significant funding already secured from central Government to regenerate Tottenham in the east of the borough.
We are looking for a specialist Planning Senior Lawyer who has the experience and capability to lead, advise and manage our more complex planning, regeneration and highways work using their own initiative, and with minimum supervision. You must also be able to work collaboratively and flexibly, and be able to make a real difference to the achievement of the Council’s objectives in this area.
You will be a solicitor, barrister or FILEX [UK qualified] ideally with at least 2-4 years recent PQE, and excellent communication and influencing skills. You will be highly motivated, with an excellent track record in delivering advice on, and assisting with, a wide variety of planning issues including s106 agreements, enforcement and planning policy. Experience of advising on regeneration schemes and more complex public inquiries, High Court appeals and judicial reviews in the context of planning would also be useful. The ideal candidate will also have some experience of attendance at, and advising, committees and staff supervision.
You will report to the Principal Lawyer (Property, Planning and Regeneration). However, there will be the need to work collaboratively with the Planning and Regeneration Specialist Lawyer in general, and to assist in delivering the ongoing regeneration of Tottenham priority in particular.
For an informal discussion on this post, please contact Raymond Prince, Assistant Head of Legal Services and Deputy Monitoring Officer on 020 8489 5935
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Perhaps a case of missing-the-point-itis here?
Councillors and senior staff in a local council should take pains to follow the law. They should pay attention and learn from past mistakes - their own or those in other councils. It seems to me such obvious common sense steps would reduce the risk of losing planning appeals. (Where inspectors overturn decisions.) It would also avoid humiliating and expensive judgements in Judicial Reviews.
In planning, Wards Corner is the obvious example. With other embarrassing cases where, if the "leading" councillors had simply listened to objectors, a lot of time and money would have been saved. (For example, with the proposed waste plant at Pinkham Way.)
But it's not just in Planning. This week we had the reports of the latest hearing of the Musa family case. In April Mr Justice Holman said that Haringey's actions caused him to feel “a sense of utmost despair” with the case, describing Haringey's actions as leading to “a frankly catastrophic situation” with the children.
Although, to be more positive, my contacts inside the Council tell me they have very great confidence in Lisa Redfern who is now in charge of Children's Services. So some optimism there.
But in "regenerating" Tottenham it seems Cllrs Kober and Strickland are pressing on with their misguided, ill-informed and destructive social cleansing programme. Instead of learning from past errors they are determined to repeat them - meanwhile strengthening their legal team to try to deal with the possible consequences of getting it wrong nearly every time.
Surely it's time for them to screw-up again at Wards Corner and Apex House?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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To be generous Alan it can also work the other way around. If there was an application that ticked all the legal and policy boxes but the authority would want to refuse it because it just didn't benefit the community (for example a change of use to a betting shop) they would need legal advice to understand their potential liability.
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