Overview The recent High Court decision in Essendi UK Hotels 2 Ltd ("Essendi") v London Property Company Ltd ("LPC") marks a significant...

The TCC has now reinforced the strength of adjudication-backed building liability orders. In Crest Nicholson Regeneration Ltd v Ardmore...

Assets of Community Value (ACV) are currently a largely toothless regime which give the community a right to bid for an asset. The bid...

Over the past year, we have helped our developer clients restructure too many residential led schemes. Sites with planning permission are...

The UK is advancing reforms to establish commonhold as the preferred tenure for flats, addressing longstanding criticism of leasehold....

Having spent over two decades working in the UK housing sector, I have witnessed first hand the persistent gap between policy ambition...

On 8 October the government announced that from 1 November 2025 thousands of new homes will be getting the go ahead to be built in North...

We have written before (here) about the need for councils to publish section 106 agreements on their websites before issuing a planning...

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...

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)...