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Nicola Gooch

Welcome to 2023: Consultations, change, and stalling local plans

Welcome to 2023. The year of consultations.  It has only been a few weeks since DLUHC launched the "Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill:...

Nicola Gooch

A Christmas Consultation and a Court of Appeal decision on CIL.

Well, Gove kept his promise. DLUHC's consultation on changes to national planning policy did in fact arrive before Christmas. To be...

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...

Alison Willis

On the Eleventh day of Christmas 2022...

... Alison Willis from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team reflects on another key case from 2022. Whilst the closure of...

Ross Condie

On the Tenth day of Christmas 2022...

... Ross Condie from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes takes a look at the Court of Appeal’s decision in Spire Property Development...

Elizabeth Mutter

DfE guidance and funding for energy efficiency measures in schools and colleges

On 6 December the government published new guidance on how schools and colleges can be more energy efficient. The guidance seeks to...

Malcolm Worrell

On the Ninth day of Christmas 2022...

...Today Malcolm Worrell from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team looks at how the scales of justice tips further towards...

Nadia Khan

On the Eighth day of Christmas 2022...

...Today Nadia Khan from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team analyses the issue of non-payment of service charges by examining...

Adiba Firmansyah

Important reminder of the requirements for a valid exchange of contracts

In Aslam v Rehman [2022] UKUT 251 (LC), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) examined the requirements for a valid exchange of contracts,...

Jill Crawford

Why are the delays in UK Government publishing Its environmental targets so important?

In accordance with Section 4 of the Environment Act the UK Government were due to publish details of their environmental targets with the...

Bryn Davey

On the Seventh Day of Christmas 2022...

...Today Bryn Davey from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team analyses the Kowalek & Anor v Hassanein Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1041 case...

Catherine Dear

On the Sixth Day of Christmas 2022...

...Today Catherine Dear from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team examines the issue of service charges. Parmer v 127 Ladbroke...

Sana Ikhlaq

On the Fifth Day of Christmas 2022...

...Today Sana Ikhlaq and Rachel Belinfante from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team examines the issue of VAT on break payments...

Nicola Gooch

LURB's Labour's Lost? A recap of the last few days in the world of Planning Reform

There has always been a lot going on in the world of planning, but the speed at which announcements have been released over the last few...

Stacey Moore

On the Fourth Day of Christmas 2022...

...Today Stacey Moore from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate Disputes team examines the topic of post-pandemic lease renewals. The 2021 case...

Paul Henson

On the Third Day of Christmas 2022...

…Today Paul Henson from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate team examines the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 and in particular the Prime...

Nicola Gooch

Festive funding rows: CIL, planning fees & local authority funding

We are now officially in December, which means that festive-ness is now socially acceptable*.  As such, I thought we should get properly...

Thomas Freeman

On the Second Day of Christmas 2022...

…Today Thomas Freeman from Irwin Mitchell’s Real Estate team examines the Electronic Communications Code and analyses the recent decision...

Jake Marshall

On the First Day of Christmas 2022...

… Real Estate disputes trainee, Jake Marshall, gives us a summary of landlords’ duties to make reasonable adjustments for disabled...

Nicola Gooch

Meanwhile, at DEFRA... Progress on conservation covenants and nutrient neutrality

Whilst Parliament is tying itself up in knots over *those* spoiling amendments to the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill, I thought we...

Jill Crawford

Fly-tipping and consequences for landowners

Organised crime gangs now see fly-tipping as a way to make money by avoiding the increasing rise in  landfill tax duty. That, together...

Nicola Gooch

CIL side: What are the implications of the Supreme Court decision in Hillside?

"although this feature of the planning legislation means that developers may face practical hurdles, the problems should not be...

Nicola Gooch

Problems with the Passage of Time: Hillside, the Supreme Court and the Mayhew Report

To misquote a popular saying, there are two things in life that are inevitable - ageing and taxes. The last couple of days has had me...

Elizabeth Mutter

An introduction to... Section 106 Agreements

Sometimes, in order to make a development acceptable in planning terms, a local planning authority require a developer to enter into...

Nicola Gooch

Deja Gove: The Original Secretary of State for Levelling- Up returns to DLUHC

We are probably all familiar with the idea of the circular economy. Well, yesterday evening, Prime Minister Sunak introduced the UK to...

Nicola Gooch

All that's left is LURB.... The Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill comes out of Committee

Well, I think it is fair to say that this last week has certainly been... dramatic....   In the midst of all of the chaos, drama, and...

Jill Crawford

Net Zero strategy - another u-turn?

Despite seeking permission to appeal the High Court ruling of July 2022 (R (Friends of the Earth) v SSBEIS [2022] EWHC 1841 (Admin).)...

Nicola Gooch

Delay, Poor Decisions and Under Resourcing: The un-acknowledged cost of planning reform.

If you are to believe the national press we are only a week away from the next great Planning Reform Day. According to The Guardian on 19...

Nicola Gooch

What Truss did on my holidays: It's much more than 'just' the mini budget....

Last week, whilst my family and I were exploring the highlands of Scotland*, the Truss Government rolled up its sleeves and got to work. ...

Nicola Gooch

An era of change and the need to bring planning back into focus...

We have now reached the end of the second Elizabethan era. A sentence which feels deeply strange both to write and to see written down. ...