Sewage pollution and water quality have increasingly been in the news over the last few years. At first glance this is a dry subject, but...
We previously wrote about an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Bill) in the House of Lords. The amendment was proposed...
The government's much anticipated Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Bill) has made its way to the House of Lords and is currently at the...
As noted by Stuart Duffy in a previous article the Developer Remediation Contract ("DRC") obliges 50 of the UK's developers to remediate...
The recent court of appeal decision in R. (on the application of Greenfields (IOW) Ltd) v Isle of Wight Council [2025] EWCA Civ 488 (IOW)...
It used to be that policy trumped guidance but it is not so certain any more. The government's planning policy is set out in the National...
I don't know if the weather was behind it, continuing geopolitical turbulence or other factors but MIPIM 2025 seemed a bit more focused...
Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (S73) is titled "Determination of applications to develop land without compliance...
A recent question put to the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government ("MHCLG") has shed light on the practicalities of...
On 7 October 2024 the Government made the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No 1) Regulations 2024 (SI/2024/1018) (the...
Something old - what is a rentcharge? A rentcharge is an annual or periodic sum charged on and burdening freehold land which requires the...
This case concerns an application to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities...