Skip to main content

Business Insights

Subscribe

Search results for 'construction'

Reset Filters
Nicola Gooch

The Enforcer: The Mayor of London gets tough on Affordable Housing Provision

If Boris Johnson will always be remembered as the Mayor who introduced the 'Boris Bike' to the capital; then the current Mayor of London,...

08/09/17
Keith Davidson

The impact of mandatory ESG reporting on engineering businesses

The introduction of mandatory ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting is set to have significant implications for...

27/03/24
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental weekly news round up - 22nd March 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Environment Law news update. As ever, we bring you developments, insights, and analysis in...

25/03/24
Rebecca Denvers

Anti-Zionist beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010

In Miller v University of Bristol, a tribunal held that an academic’s anti-Zionist views were a “protected belief” under the Equality Act...

05/03/24
Nicola Gooch

The CMA Report into Housebuilding is out! and some other stuff.....

I hadn't even finished my first coffee of the day, when news of the publication of the CMA report into the housebuilding industry popped...

26/02/24
Nicola Gooch

Happy Brownfield Development/ Urban Densification Day .... more consultations and another proposed change to the NPPF

Today has certainly been a busy one for DLUHC….  Between 8.45am and 5.15pm, the Department published no less than eight separate updates...

13/02/24
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental Weekly News Round Up – 19 January 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Environment Law news update. As ever, we bring you developments, insights, and analysis in...

19/01/24
Padma Tadi-Booth

New immigration rules will make it harder for employers to attract and recruit staff

The government announced significant changes to the UK immigration system which will come into force next year. It believes that current...

05/12/23
Mandeep Khroud

New Immigration measures revealed: what's changing and how will it impact the UK

The new Home Secretary, James Cleverly, earlier this week announced a package of extensive measures set to reduce net migration in the UK...

05/12/23
Bryan Bletso

£30 billion investment announcement highlights strength of UK economy

Today, as global chief executives and investors gather at Hampton Court Palace for a government investment summit, the UK government has...

27/11/23
Joanne Moseley

Profanity and prejudice: using gendered derogatory language towards a trans woman can amount to direct discrimination

In Fischer v London United Busways Limited, a tribunal had to decide if a trans woman who said she had been called a swear word typically...

30/10/23
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental Weekly News Round Up - 13 October 2023

Over the last few weeks, we've seen both Labour and the Conservatives hold their annual conferences.  With the Conservative government...

13/10/23
Nicola Gooch

LURB Watch: Government confirms Nitrates' amendments to be tabled in House of Lords shortly

Earlier today DLUHC and DEFRA announced that they will shortly be tabling amendments to the Levelling-Up & Regeneration Bill with a view...

29/08/23
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental News Round Up - 22 September 2023

Nitrate neutrality position finally neutralised In the last few weeks this has issue has garnered a lot of headlines with the Government...

22/09/23
Harriet Fletcher

How do you solve a problem like Accrual?

Final Salary Schemes: accruals, amendments, and member “interests” 17 years ago, on Saturday 29 July 2006, UK television viewers settled...

07/09/23
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental News Round Up - 8 September 2023

Reassessing Energy Commitments: The UK’s Treaty Withdrawal Debate The Minister for Energy Graham Stuart indicated on 1st September that...

08/09/23
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental news round up - 25 August 2023

This week’s environmental news round up is diving into environmental crime, and the powers of the Environment Agency to enforce against...

25/08/23
Irwin Mitchell

popular electronic telephone game causes construction consternation

Keen digital observers will know that, for now, Pokémon Go is wildly popular. We understand that it encourages people to experience the...

07/09/16
Mandeep Khroud

Summer Hospitality Blues? Our Immigration Expert Reveals Solutions to Staffing Woes

As an immigration lawyer, I understand the challenges the hospitality sector is facing in terms of skill shortages, particularly as we...

10/07/23
Stefano DAmbrosio Nunez

Supreme Court hears landmark Finch case – Do we need to consider downstream Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in planning permissions?

In 2019, planning permission Ref: RE18/02667/CON was granted for the retention and extension of the existing well site at Horse Hill and...

30/06/23
Claire Petricca-Riding

Manufacturing and the journey towards net zero

The UK manufacturing sector has faced significant change over the couple of decades but perhaps the biggest will be how it faces up to...

16/06/23
Nicola Gooch

As one consultation closes, another two open: Performance reviews, price rises, case law and yet another set of changes to PD Rights...

Sometimes, dealing with government consultations on planning reform feels a bit like fighting a Hydra.  The ink is not yet dry on our...

01/03/23
Jill Crawford

Housebuilder fined £480,000 for failure to implement measures to prevent multiple pollution incidents

In what could be seen as a clear message to large companies that cause pollution to the environment that Magistrates Courts are willing...

15/05/23
Nicola Gooch

Planning for Fools: The best planning related April Fools of the weekend, and the stories that I wish had been....

Saturday was April Fools day. I spent the morning engaged in such classic pranks as cleaning the house and doing laundry*.  In honour of...

01/04/23
Erica Ives

Sustainability in sport: stadium development and planning

Like many other sectors, the sports sector faces an unprecedented challenge to become more sustainable, finding ways to mitigate its...

29/03/23
Nicola Gooch

Budget 2023: Later Living & Care

Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt delivered his first official 'non-emergency' budget as chancellor. It was billed as a Budget for Growth, with a...

16/03/23
Joanne Moseley

New proposals will give casual workers the right to ask for a predictable work contract

At the beginning of the year, I speculated that the long-promised right for insecure workers to ask to change their contract to reflect...

15/02/23
Tracy Lovejoy

Planning changes and the problem of slow build-outs

Among the many changes proposed to the planning system are changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (the ‘NPPF’).  The changes...

14/02/23
Danielle Parsons

Why is 'loud quitting' a risky strategy?

So-called ‘loud quitting’ is a very risky strategy for many reasons.  Firstly, by telling your employer that you are looking elsewhere is...

18/01/23
Nicola Gooch

In the Bleak Midwinter... Cold winds stall local plan progress, LURB heads to the Lords, the Supreme Court rules on DB Symmetry & other news

It has been yet another busy old week in the wonderful world of planning. So in between dodging snowballs, ice-skating along the...

16/12/22