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Nicola Gooch
The puzzling politics of permitted development rights
On 18 May, DLUHC issued its response to Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee's report on permitted development rights....
09/06/23
George Cohen
New section 8 grounds and the survival of ‘no-fault’ evictions
The Renters (Reform) Bill introduced this week by the Government signals the long-awaited reform to existing housing legislation and the...
07/06/23
Nicola Gooch
Technical Consultation on the Infrastructure Levy: Our Response.
When the Infrastructure Levy Consultation launched, back in March, I said that it was complicated. Now, after spending much of the last...
01/06/23
Nicola Gooch
LURB in the Lords: The Bill enters its Report Stage
The Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill has finally entered report stage in the House of Lords after extensive debates in the committee. A...
26/05/23
Stacey Moore
Landlord succeeds in obtaining a (very) early redevelopment break right on renewal
What happens when the landlord wants to include an early break right in a lease renewal in order to redevelop but the tenant refuses? How...
24/05/23
Sejal Patel
10% biodiversity net gain: current issues facing the sector
“You’re not getting rid of BNG mate!”“My hope is that wherever I’m going for a run, I’m swallowing flies”These are just some of the...
24/05/23
Anna Dyde
Will 2023 be the year of MMC?
It would probably be fair to say that, whilst often talked about, adoption of ‘modern methods of construction’ or MMC (which encompasses...
23/05/23
Nicola Gooch
Secretary of State threatens to put ten LPAs into special measures
This morning (May 12th) DLUHC published letters from the Michael Gove, the Secretary of State, to ten separate local planning authorities...
12/05/23
Nicola Gooch
The Infrastructure Levy: A Radical, Risky, Reform that we all need to engage with
This blog started life as an opinion piece written for a roundtable with RPS and DLUHC discussing the Infrastructure Levy proposals that...
11/05/23
Nicola Gooch
London's closing schools: Is the housing crisis creating a lost generation?
Last week, I listened to two separate podcasts* discussing the same phenomenon. Central London's primary schools are closing at an...
02/05/23
Nicola Gooch
Infrastructure funding: County Councils have a CIL problem. IL will make it worse.
Before Christmas, I wrote about a fight that had broken out in Gloucestershire over CIL funding. The County Council was concerned about...
20/04/23
Nicola Gooch
Consultation Nation: Yet more planning reform..... this time on short term lets, holiday rentals and nutrient neutrality
The Easter holidays are always a slightly frantic time in my house. After several days of wrangling overexcited children, huge family get...
14/04/23
Adiba Firmansyah
What the education sector needs to know about the new energy efficiency regulations
Against the background of the Department for Education stating that they ‘are putting climate change at the heart of education’ and...
04/04/23
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
Nicola Gooch
Technical Consultation on the Infrastructure Levy launches and it's ..... complicated....
Just when you think it is safe to step away from the computer and make a cup of tea, DLUHC launches not one but two *major* new...
17/03/23
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
Nicola Gooch
Budget 2023: What does it mean for planning & development?
It is sometimes hard to believe that it is only six months since Liz Truss's 'mini-budget' quite so thoroughly upset the apple-cart that...
15/03/23
Nicola Gooch
Money Troubles: DLUHC, Local Government Resources and Planning
Every now and again, a consultation comes along that has the ability to genuinely change things for the better. DLUHC's consultation on...
12/03/23
Melody Li
Building a sustainable future: the New Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The UK government announced the creation of four new departments on 7 February 2023. As one of the new departments, the creation of...
03/03/23
Nicola Gooch
Consultation Response: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - reforms to national planning policy
After a great deal of internal discussion, conversations with clients and contacts and general chewing of (metaphorical) pens, our...
01/03/23
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
Elizabeth Mutter
An introduction to… planning enforcement
If development is carried out without required planning permission, this is a breach of planning control. Likewise, failure to comply...
28/02/23
Melody Li
Protection of trees: what developers and landowners need to know
Our Protection of Trees webinar was hosted by Jill Crawford and Tracy Lovejoy from our Planning and Environment team on 9 February. In...
16/02/23
Pamela Chesterman
How ‘real’ is ‘reality TV’: Clarkson, ‘Diddly Squat’, farm diversification and planning
Spoiler Alert - if you’ve not yet watched the series but plan to, don’t read this – I give the whole game away. I enjoyed the last series...
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
Nicola Gooch
Mind the Funding Gap: The curious case of s.106 contributions funding NHS services
February seems to have been a month for fascinating planning cases. First, we had Mr Armstrong's one man mission to clarify the scope of...
14/02/23
Nicola Gooch
Pick & mix planning: Fees, s.73, Article 4 and LURB in the Lords
A lot has happened since my last post*, so much that I couldn't choose a single topic to write about. Instead, I have picked a selection...
03/02/23
Thomas Freeman
Supreme Court backs residents against Tate Modern in viewing gallery case
You may have already seen in the news that the owners of flats adjacent to the Tate Gallery’s viewing platform have won their “privacy”...
01/02/23
Elizabeth Thomson
VAT – a minor change which could mean major headaches
From 1 February 2023, HMRC will no longer issue VAT option to tax notification receipt letters. Neither will HMRC confirm that an option...
31/01/23
Nicola Gooch
What does the NPPF Consultation mean for Seniors Housing?
This is the first of a series of deep-dives into the detail of the "Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: reforms to national planning...
18/01/23