Posts from March 2018
Nicola Gooch
Planning Update: A selection box of recent case law and a cautionary tale
As the cabinet seems to have taken a short break from announcing yet more planning reforms*, this post takes the form of a trip to the...
29/03/18
Irwin Mitchell
Stop blaming avocadoes for the housing crisis
There were a number of stories last year suggesting that mild-mannered millennials would be able to buy a home if they cut out the "flat...
16/03/18
Joanne Moseley
Unpaid trial shifts under the spotlight
MPs and unions are calling on the government to enact a blanket ban on unpaid shift work, describing it as “exploitation” by employers. ...
15/03/18
Irwin Mitchell
Letting Business premises? The RICS consults.......
It has been a busy time for the RICS recently on its consultations. First, the Service Charge Code revisions, where the new Code is due...
13/03/18
Nicola Gooch
Monday Morning News Flash: MHCLG Announce extended Agricultural to Residential PD Rights to come into effect on 6 April
Hot on the heels of last week's onslaught of planning consultations, Dominic Raab, our newest Housing Minister, has just announced that...
12/03/18
Irwin Mitchell
Tribunal service under pressure
The Ministry of Justice has published provisional employment tribunal statistics for October to December 2017 and it will come as no...
12/03/18
Joanne Moseley
New NMW register "names and shames" high profile employers whose uniform policies result in staff being underpaid
Latest figures published by the government name 179 employers who have underpaid 9,200 workers £1.1m collectively. Wagamama, TGI...
09/03/18
Joanne Moseley
Scottish firms warned not to punish staff who followed snow advice
According to the Guardian newspaper, Scotland's transport minister has said that employers who try to dock the wages of workers who could...
07/03/18
Nicola Gooch
Developer Contributions under review: Government suggests a major overhaul of CIL and s.106 Agreements... but consults on tweaks to the system
MHCLG has clearly had a busy few weeks, as today has seen the launch of not one but two consultations on major changes to the UK planning...
05/03/18
Nicola Gooch
Rumours that new draft NPPF is to be released on Monday
Planning Resource has just published news that the long awaited revisions to the NPPF may be released on Monday 5th March "according to...
02/03/18