Tags matching 'real estate'
Elizabeth Thomson
Landlords Need To Respond to Ambitious Targets For Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards
Paul Henson, a real estate partner at Irwin Mitchell, reports on a new government consultation. Over the past few months, we have...
18/11/19
Nicola Gooch
Unfinished Business: The Planning Legislation left in limbo by the December Election
Today is the last day of parliamentary business before our MPs head back to their constituencies and onto the campaign trail* for a...
05/11/19
Nicola Gooch
Schrödinger's Planning System: If we fail to address it - does it really exist?
Early this week, I found myself on the phone to a Local Planning Authority Lawyer making an analogy between an aspect of a legal...
25/10/19
Nicola Gooch
A Tale of Two Interventions: Mixed Messages from MHCLG on Green Belt release in Local Plans
The last few days have been... well... interesting... for those of us who spend our time keeping an eye on the workings of MHCLG. In...
10/10/19
Nicola Gooch
Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen! Lessons from the Tory Party Conference....
I am writing this post on October 3rd.* As such, this blog will be devoted, in pretty much equal parts, to information gleaned from the...
03/10/19
Nicola Gooch
Building a Community: Are Garden Villages & New Settlements the way to solve the Housing Crisis?
This post is inspired by somewhat local concerns. My home council, Tunbridge Wells, published its draft Local Plan on Friday,* and is...
23/09/19
Nicola Gooch
Stop Press! - Court of Appeal sides with Developers over interpretation of CIL Regs
On 12 September, the Court of Appeal delivered its judgment in the Giordano Appeal. For those who do not spend their lives permanently on...
20/09/19
Nicola Gooch
Walking The Development Viability Tightrope: MHCLG publishes new national guidance on CIL, s.106 & Viability
Monday was a potentially momentous day in the world of development finances. Not only did the latest set of CIL amendment regulations...
04/09/19
Nicola Gooch
A Good Day to Bury Planning News? MHCLG Releases Discussion Paper on 'The Day of BREXIT Headlines'
In what is either a case of really unfortunate timing, or extreme sneakiness, yesterday the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...
29/08/19
Irwin Mitchell
Treehouse of Horrors or just another little dig at permitted development rights?
Just last week the popular press has reported on a tree house in Lincolnshire being threatened with planning enforcement. The summer...
09/08/19
Nicola Gooch
Tales from the Planning Court: a very quick round-up of some recent case law
Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then I'll begin... After the whirlwind of events that lead to my last blog post, this week I have...
05/08/19
Irwin Mitchell
Is there a housing crisis?
Architect and TV presenter George Clarke broadcast a brilliant programme earlier this week on Channel 4 ("George Clarke's council house...
02/08/19
Nicola Gooch
Blooming Marvel-ous: a recap of a highly eventful week in the world of planning.
Well. That was quite the rollercoaster. Having just about caught my breath, this post is an attempt to recap all of the important events...
26/07/19
Nicola Gooch
A Plague On Both Your Houses: Research Shows that Public Trust in the Planning System is 'almost non-existent'
Last week, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland published a report which is a damning indictment on us all. Their research demonstrated that...
16/07/19
Nicola Gooch
Solar Panels: The materiality of climate change can cast a long shadow over development proposals
In a typical application of Murphy's Law, my recent holiday coincided with a very busy two weeks in the world of planning. In particular,...
12/07/19
Irwin Mitchell
A story of fives…
Last week, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Communities released the Statistics for Planning Applications in England:...
03/07/19
Nicola Gooch
A Local Plan for Local People: What happens when Residents take over Local Councils?
To say that politics is strange and unpredictable at the moment is bordering on cliché. Brexit, the Tory leadership election, and a...
19/06/19
Lorraine Rose-Dugdale
Developer Uses Prescriptive Rights to Develop Land
The case of Stanning v Baldwin reported last week is a useful example of how prescriptive rights can be used to facilitate development of...
17/06/19
Irwin Mitchell
Part 3... In which I try to predict what Starter Homes will look like...
If we ever get the Regulations for them...* I could use this blog to carry on my rant from Part 2. I could have followed up my comments...
10/06/19
Irwin Mitchell
... Part 2; but where have they come from?
Tbf I didn't know whether to take Nicola's previous title literally and start with a spaceship meme*. Instead I'm going to take the...
07/06/19
Nicola Gooch
The CIL Regs have Landed...
It isn't very often that I feel personally victimised by a government department. That changed on Tuesday, when MHCLG published their...
06/06/19
Nicola Gooch
From Planning Minister to Prime Minister? Some Manifesto Suggestions for Kit Malthouse
The revolving door at MHCLG* looks set to keep right on spinning, as not just one, but three, former Planning Ministers have thrown their...
03/06/19
Nicola Gooch
Can Soft Play save our High Streets? Permitted development and the changing face of retail
It seems that you can barely go a week without reading a headline about the parlous state of our high streets. Stories like the recent...
24/05/19
Nicola Gooch
Sanctuary Spaces: Can thoughtful development improve our mental health?
Last week, an email popped into my inbox from the BPF - highlighting a social media campaign they are running for Mental Health Awareness...
13/05/19
Irwin Mitchell
What's new in the world of Permitted Development?
It appears that those over at MHCLG had a busy Friday before heading out for the bank holiday sunshine (if you could find the sun...
07/05/19
Nicola Gooch
Getting the C3 Blues: Is the Use Classes Order no longer useful when it comes to Specialist Housing?
It is frequently stated that necessity is the mother of invention.* Whilst I am not one to place all that much faith in proverbs; the...
05/05/19
Irwin Mitchell
Country Living ain't easy - the Lords have their say...
Over the weekend the House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy has called on the Government to develop a rural strategy and...
30/04/19
Nicola Gooch
Here I am. Stuck in the Middle with you.... DCLG Guidance on Education Funding sets up inter-council conflicts over s.106 Contributions.
I have had the classic Stealers Wheel song* stuck in my head ever since DCLG and DfE issued their revised guidance on the funding of...
29/04/19
Irwin Mitchell
The glow of one warm thought is worth more than money...
As I headed off to a pre Easter touring production of Les Mis I half eyed up a flowery (Thomas Jefferson) quote whilst also reading the...
23/04/19
Irwin Mitchell
Government to consult on 'open-ended' tenancies and the end of 'no fault eviction
The Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government have announced a new consultation on ending the ability to end an AST on two...
15/04/19