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Irwin Mitchell

When is a right, a right?

A very recent case in the Court of Appeal Regency Villas Title Ltd and others v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd and another [2017] EWCA Civ...

10/04/17
Nicola Gooch

Demolishing Your Dreams: When Planning Goes (Extremely) Wrong

I am very pleased to say that planning enforcement cases do not cross my desk all that often, but when they do the stakes for the parties...

07/04/17
Nicola Gooch

Playing Catch-Up: The Great Repeal Bill, Permission in Principle, The Neighbourhood Planning Bill...

There have been so many important developments over the last few weeks that I have been struggling to decide which to write about. ...

31/03/17
Nicola Gooch

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council considers a new garden village for the Garden of England

It isn't very often that I write about events taking place in my own back yard, but on this occasion, I am going to make an exception.  ...

23/03/17
Nicola Gooch

Minister goes to MIPIM... and makes an announcement that his Diary Secretary may regret

This week, the great and the good of the property industry are networking in the South of France. I am not amongst them*, but Gavin...

17/03/17
Nicola Gooch

Housing Forum report: Take politics out of planning to boost housing supply

Many people take issue with the way in which individual planning applications are decided. The system is far from perfect, and can...

16/03/17
Nicola Gooch

We are not yet prepared for supporting an ageing population: Carl Dyer talks to Planning Resource

Those of you who have been reading these posts for a while, may have picked up on the fact that our team has an interest in the...

10/03/17
Nicola Gooch

Wrangling over Reasons: R oao CPRE Kent v Dover District Council heads to the Supreme Court

When the Government removed the statutory duty to include reasons  for granting consent on the face of a planning permission in 2013,...

08/03/17
Nicola Gooch

Homes of the Future - Technology and Retirement Living

Earlier this week McCarthy & Stone and the Agile Ageing Alliance released a report which considers the implications of technology for the...

02/03/17
Irwin Mitchell

Do you have, or can you see, Japanese Knotweed at your Property?

An article on the BBC news website has highlighted that a homeowner has been successful in claiming compensation from Network Rail, when...

01/03/17
Irwin Mitchell

"When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, a Landlord's lot is not an 'appy one, 'appy one"

If you ever read the books about "The Scarecrow" by Russell Thorndyke, tales of smugglers on Romney Marsh, led by the local Parson, and...

28/02/17
Nicola Gooch

Aarhus Cost Protection Limits for Judicial Reviews no Longer Set in Stone

Today, the 88th Amendment to the Civil Procedure Rules comes into effect. You might think that this is a slightly odd topic for a...

28/02/17
Nicola Gooch

Inspector tells Mid Sussex Council to plan for more homes

Mid Sussex Council submitted its new District Plan to the Planning Inspectorate for examination in August 2016.  Earlier this week, the...

22/02/17
Nicola Gooch

Streamlining Newts - or at least their licensing arrangements

Hidden away in the detail of the Housing White Paper was an announcement about Great Crested Newts. Namely, that following a successful...

17/02/17
Nicola Gooch

The Housing White Paper: Very Heavily Abridged

The Housing White Paper was finally unveiled, in the House of Commons, on Tuesday lunchtime and has dominated the news for most of the...

09/02/17
Nicola Gooch

Suffering Housing White Paper Overload? Let's talk CIL Reform instead

On a day where parliament is discussing BREXIT and appropriate measures for protecting the public from seagulls (and most planning...

07/02/17
Irwin Mitchell

Over-elm..ing protection for Woodlands (pardon the pun)

The Telegraph has published a very interesting article on the much anticipated Housing White Paper (due tomorrow) and Government plans to...

06/02/17
Nicola Gooch

Is the Government about to get on board with the Retirement Housing agenda?

Gavin Barwell spent much of the weekend on  television discussing the Housing White Paper, which is now expected on Tuesday this week....

06/02/17
Irwin Mitchell

SDLT surcharge on second homes nets additional £1.19bn

The Times has reported (behind a paywall) that the additional 3% SDLT surcharge on residential properties brought by someone who already...

02/02/17
Nicola Gooch

RTPI Publishes Practice Note on Planning For Dementia Friendly Developments

Yesterday, the RTPI published its first practice note on  "Dementia and Town Planning".  The practice note is only 16 pages long and I...

31/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

Property Fraud - Protect yourself

Lessons can be gleaned from a recent high profile case on property fraud. Landlords (both residential and commercial) should heed the...

27/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

To buy or not to buy (but can I afford it?)

An interesting article from The Telegraph has picked up that it can take the average first time buyer 10 years to save for a deposit to...

26/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

(un)affordable Housing Crisis - 2017

A recent International Housing Affordability Survey (2017) has highlighted some of the most expensive places to live in the world by...

26/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

Too Hot to Handle - The EU's Energy Directive

The European Commission’s guidance on the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive (which requires heat meters or heat cost...

26/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell helps secure major North Street Quarter mixed-use development in Lewes, East Sussex

The South Downs National Park Authority granted planning permission for a major 416-home mixed-use scheme which will not only provide 40...

23/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

Un-lock garage sites to solve housing crisis?

Specialist crowdfunders Property Partner have used a number of FOI requests to establish how many under-used and under-maintained lock up...

20/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

Midlands Engine goes 'Brum'

Interesting news from the Birmingham Mail, picked up by Bisnow.com, reveals that Birmingham tops the list for the most new company...

18/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

First Time Buyers on the increase

Encouraging figures released by Halifax (and reported without paywall by Mortgagestrategy.co.uk) show a continued recovery in the number...

14/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

Snow limit to the perks on offer...

Whilst waiting for the housing white paper it is always worth observing what perks the luxury developers are offering at their prime...

11/01/17
Irwin Mitchell

"I do, therefore I spend" - Visa report on consumer spending

Take from it what you will, (and read it in parallel with the report on the massive amount of unsecured debt in the UK), but surely one...

10/01/17