Skip to main content

Business Insights

Subscribe

Tags matching 'real estate'

Reset Filters
Nicola Gooch

Autumn Statement 2023: Infrastructure, EV's and changes to planning fees.

The Chancellor has just delivered the Autumn Statement 2023.  Yet again, we have heard a promise the Government will boost the economy by...

22/11/23
Nicola Gooch

LURA Condensed: An attempt to summarise most of the planning provisions in the Levelling-Up & Regeneration Act.

Apologies if I have been a little bit quiet of late… I have been attempting to condense most of the planning sections of the Levelling-Up...

17/11/23
Nicola Gooch

LURA has landed: Updated commencement table below

Earlier this week, I published a table (based on the latest version of the LURB) estimating when the planning sections of the...

03/11/23
Nicola Gooch

LURA, can't you give me some time? Or at least a new fees order...

The period between the proroguing of parliament and the date of the King's Speech is often strangely restful.  Whilst we are all enjoying...

02/11/23
Nicola Gooch

Levelling-Up & Regeneration Bill gets Royal Assent - by the skin of its teeth...

It is official.  The time has come to retire all of the old LURB puns and start considering more LURA (or should that be lurid) wordplay....

26/10/23
Nicola Gooch

All's fair in LURB and war: Let Ping Pong commence!

Party conference season is officially over. Parliament is back in session and, for all of us LURB-watchers, that can only mean one thing:...

18/10/23
Nicola Gooch

Stranger than fiction: A HS2 free round-up of the last few weeks in planning

The truth may or may not be stranger than fiction, but party conference season certainly is! This post is a round-up of some of the more...

06/10/23
Joanna Preece

RAAC – what are the implications for schools?

On 31 August 2023 the Department for Education (“DfE”) announced that schools and colleges with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete...

03/10/23
Paul Henson

Building Safety Act 2022 – Impending deadline for the registration of high risk buildings

This article focuses on the impending registration deadline of 30 September 2023 for High Risk Buildings (“HRB”) under rigorous...

27/09/23
Paul Henson

Remediation Orders under the Building Safety Act 2022 – the first of many?

The First Tier FTT (“FtT”) has made its first Remediation Order (“RO”) pursuant to section 123 of the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA”)....

26/09/23
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
Claire Petricca-Riding

Sunak's Speech: Is this a pause in the green revolution?

If something is too good to be true - can it ever be true? Well not according to Rishi Sunak in his resignation letter to Boris Johnson...

22/09/23
Nicola Gooch

Updates, Omissions & Announcements: There is never a dull moment in planning!

Well, Autumn is definitely here. The weather has taken a turn for the worse, Christmas treats have begun appearing in the supermarkets*,...

22/09/23
Bella Kagoma

The Building Safety Act 2022 and how it impacts commercial properties

The Building Safety Act 2022 (“the Act”), which received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022, is being brought into force in stages. The Act...

20/09/23
Claire Petricca-Riding

The Great Retrofit: an opportunity or a threat?

As a speaker at the recent Resource & Waste Management Expo 2023, I had the opportunity to address a captive audience of professionals in...

18/09/23
Nicola Gooch

Shakespeare in LURB: Neutrality losses & contribution questions

Well, that was certainly dramatic.... On 13 September, following a highly charged debate, the House of Lords overwhelmingly voted down...

14/09/23
Nicola Gooch

LURB Watch 2: The nutrient amendments have landed

Yesterday evening, at some point during the 6.15pm showing of Barbie at the Haymarket Odeon*, the proposed nutrient amendments to the...

30/08/23
Toyin Ayelodieni

Upcoming deadline for registration of higher-risk buildings: ensuring safety and compliance

New regulations have recently been enacted for higher-risk buildings. As of 6 April 2023, the government has introduced the Higher-Risk...

29/08/23
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
Nicola Gooch

Infrastructure Funding and Austerity: What happens to CIL funding & planning fees when a Council runs out of money?

Earlier this month, Woking Council issued a statement to the effect that it was temporarily suspending all spending on CIL funded...

23/08/23
Nicola Gooch

Planning in Court: Class E, NHS Service Funding & Enforcement Notices in the Judicial spotlight

With Parliament taking a well-earned summer break, I thought it might be a good moment to soujourn to the relative calm of the Royal...

10/08/23
Sanjida Begum

Why clarity matters

Limitation of liability clauses are commonly used by suppliers and contractors as a risk control mechanism, particularly where the...

09/08/23
Nicola Gooch

The Long Term Plan for Housing: Let the consultations begin!

Hot on the heels of yesterday's "Long Term Plan for Housing", DLUHC has published not one, but two, of its promised consultations: A...

25/07/23
Nicola Gooch

A long-term plan for housing? DLUHC, housing and a sense of Déjà vu

Earlier today, the Government unveiled it's 'long-term plan for housing' with major announcements from both DLUHC and Number 10.  This...

24/07/23
Nicola Gooch

LURB in the Lords: An end of term report. The Infrastructure Levy, Hillside hope and no news on nitrates

The last few days of a Parliamentary term are always marked by deck-clearing, decision-making and high drama. The run-up to this summer...

21/07/23
Nicola Gooch

Money troubles: Another NHS infrastructure funding case reaches the High Court

Next week, the High Court will hear its second judicial review challenge to a planning permission brought by an NHS Trust in under a...

15/07/23
Nicola Gooch

Rewriting LURB: major amendments proposed at Report stage with rumours of more to come

The Levelling-up & Regeneration Bill enters its Report Stage in the House of Lords on Tuesday (11 July).  This is one of the later stages...

10/07/23
Nicola Gooch

Maintaining a Neutral Position: Nutrient Neutrality in the Courts and the Environment Agency in the press

On Friday 30 June, the High Court ruled on C G Fry & Son Ltd v Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing and Communities & Anor [2023]...

03/07/23
Elizabeth Thomson

Updating the Register of Overseas Entities – what are the practical implications, including for those who have disposed of all UK land?

The Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) went live on 1 August 2022. Between that date and the end of the transitional period (31 January...

27/06/23
Robert Tunningley

The Building Safety Act, Gateway Three and Donald Rumsfeld

Without wishing to sound flippant when talking about such a key and important piece of legislation, it strikes me that when analysing the...

13/06/23