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FAQs about redundancy
We answer some of the trickier questions about redundancies that don’t involve collective consultation. Q1: We are going to have to make...
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Another view on "Land Banking"
Quite rightly, the Housebuilding industry has been relieved and justified in the way that the interim Letwin report published last week...
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Is the 'Hay Bale Castle' saga finally coming to an end?
One of England's most notorious planning enforcement matters looks as if it might be in its final stages after a 'bench' arrest warrant...
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The Last Autumn Statement.... but no Housing White Paper
Philip Hammond has just delivered the Autumn Statement and wiser heads than mine will be analysing its contents as I type. Although the...
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Give small builders a leg up...
...is not just some bad health and safety advice, it is the call from a cross party group of MPs who have released a report today with...
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VAT zero-rating denied for conversion of partly non-residential property into dwellings
The Upper Tribunal has denied VAT zero-rating for dwellings converted from partly non-residential and partly residential areas in a...
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The road to permitted development is paved with good intentions... High Court tells Hounslow that what they meant to do, matters a whole lot less than what they actually did
Last week, the Administrative Court had the thankless task of informing the London Borough of Hounslow that an Article 4 Direction, which...
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Snow limit to the perks on offer...
Whilst waiting for the housing white paper it is always worth observing what perks the luxury developers are offering at their prime...
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Ministers pave the way for the Housing White Paper by pre-announcing its content
As a wise man* once said there appears to be a pattern associated with major government policy announcements. First there is a week or...
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Monday Morning News Flash: MHCLG Announce extended Agricultural to Residential PD Rights to come into effect on 6 April
Hot on the heels of last week's onslaught of planning consultations, Dominic Raab, our newest Housing Minister, has just announced that...
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Top employment cases that will shape 2018/19
We have identified the cases which will have a big impact on employment law and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. These...
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Affordable Housing: The only winner in the spending review?
Hidden amongst all of the doom and gloom of the spending review, which is due to set out billions of pounds of cuts in spending, is a...
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Chancellor unveils four point plan to 'get Britain building'
The government has formally announced its 'four point plan' to encourage development in the UK. Key measures include: The further...
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Communities Secretary: Housing is Number One Priority
It appears, from today's coverage in Planning Resource , that Sajid Javid's speech at the conservative party conference was very...
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The Community Infrastructure Levy: funds raised does not equal infrastructure delivered
It has been a busy old week in the world of planning. The Repeal Bill has been published, albeit under a new name; St Albans lost its...
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In the first week of Advent, DCLG gave to me....
This the first of four posts based on a popular Christmas song, each of which will contain a quick recap of the week's news from DCLG. In...
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Supportive of Tunbridge Wells: A local view of the ABC Cinema Site and its lack of Affordable Housing.
Those of you who have a Planning Resource subscription may have noticed an article, published yesterday, which commented on a mixed use...
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Consensus grows on the need for more specialist housing
Two independent reports have been published in the last four weeks that highlight the UK's increasing shortage of retirement housing. In...
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Budget 2017: Disappointing CIL Reforms & Other 'News'
It is probably a good thing that I have not been waiting on today's CIL announcement with bated breath. For one thing, the Government's...
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National Planning Guidance on Small Sites exemption is officially re-instated
DCLG has now reinstated the Planning Practice Guidance that gives effect to the Small Sites exemption; which was declared lawful by the...
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Is your employee sick or skiving?
New statistics released today by the ELAS Group identify the dates in the first half of the year with the highest absence rates. Mondays...
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How easy is it to change a contract? Often not very!
Although the specific facts of the dispute between junior doctors and Jeremy Hunt are pretty unique and will not be of direct relevance...
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Election 2017 - Manifesto Week: Conservatives on Planning
The Conservatives have been in government for the last two years. During that time they have introduced two major pieces of planning...
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Housing Crisis takes centre stage at Labour Conference
With the Conservative Government's controversial proposals to extend the Right to Buy to Housing Association properties dominating the...
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Merry Gove-mas! The revised NPPF lands....with a stocking full of further announcements, interventions and funding pledges..
So there we have it. The revised NPPF has arrived. A mere twelve months after the consultation draft was published; nine months after...
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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...
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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...
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