The Upper Tribunal has given judgment in an important case on appeals against improvement notices under Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004, writes Richard Miller. Read more
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has launched legal proceedings against a set of companies involved in the refurbishment of the Grenfell Tower.
A campaign group has issued a letter before claim against Lambeth Council's decision to find plans for a series of live events in a London park fell under permitted development rights.
Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council have secured an injunction to prevent persons unknown from setting up unauthorised encampments in parts of the area, but the borough council has been warned by a judge to improve Gypsy and Traveller provision and consider providing a transit site.
Derby City Council's executive scrutiny board has resolved to uphold a call-in notice of a decision to sell two parcels of land and refer the issue back to the authority’s Cabinet for reconsideration.
Eight years on from Grenfell, the Government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to address, or how long it will take, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said.
A predecessor council to North Yorkshire Council should have credited car parking and rental income from land adjacent to Whitby Harbour to the harbour’s account rather then its general one, the High Court has ruled after studying laws dating back to 1827.
A property owner has lost a High Court case in which it argued that planning consent for a residential project should have been given by Broxtowe Borough Council since this was the only feasible route to financing clearance of Japanese knotweed, which infests the site.
The Land Registry has committed to accelerating the Local Land Charges (LLC) programme, which is aimed at standardising and migrating LLC data away from local authorities onto one central register.
A dispute at the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) over the liability of some tenants of housing association Notting Hill Genesis to pay for certain services has been only partly resolved.
The Government has issued a white paper setting out its plans to ban the sale of new leasehold flats and make commonhold the default tenure in England and Wales.
The Government has accepted all 58 recommendations in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report, and will introduce a new single construction regulator “to ensure those responsible for building safety are held to account”.
Residential schemes are increasing in size and complexity, and this presents challenges for registered providers of social housing ("RPs") when raising finance against newly built properties. Hannah Jackson explores the risks and provides recommendations for RPs preparing for charging exercises where developments have been recently completed or are still ongoing.
In light of recent changes to the Building Safety Act regime, Cecilia Busby looks at the challenges in forcing developers and others to fund remediation.
Niki Constantinou looks at the risks presented by the gap that appears between the completion of a transfer and the date when the transfer is registered by the Land Registry.
James Mallery-Nelson analyses the recent case of Patarkatsishvili v Woodward Fisher [2025] and looks at how to avoid misrepresentation in property transactions.
The City of London Corporation is facing a potential judicial review of its decision to approve the demolition of the former Museum of London and Bastion House and redevelopment of the site into three office buildings.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has unveiled plans to modernise the way the conveyancing process works, in order to bring down current delays of almost five months and cut 'fall-throughs'.
City of York Council has called on tenants to report repairs to their landlord first, after a judge at York County Court last month ordered an unsuccessful disrepair claimant to pay almost £8,000 in costs.
The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has launched an inquiry that will consider potential new mechanisms for land value capture (LVC) in order to help boost house building and fund affordable housing and public infrastructure.
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) and St James, a subsidiary of the Berkeley Group, have reached a settlement with the residents of a block of flats destroyed by a fire in 2019.
Raising the threshold at which councils must set up a separate financial management account for their council housing, known as the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), could unlock up to 88,000 additional council homes, the District Councils' Network has said.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the Government to go further with its reforms of Right to Buy (RTB) to give local authorities more influence over how the scheme operates locally amid rising demand to buy homes through the scheme.
The Law Commission has published a consultation paper on compulsory purchase, as part of its review of the current "complex and inaccessible" law on compulsory purchase and compensation.
The Government has detailed a series of reforms aimed at expanding and simplifying compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) in a consultation launched today (19 December).
The London Borough of Hackney has lost a Court of Appeal case over the eligibility for right to buy of a rabbi who occupied a home for only part of the time.
Tower Hamlets Council has secured a remediation order requiring the owners of a high-rise building to remove dangerous aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding.
The Government is to set target dates for unsafe buildings in England to be fixed as part of a new Remediation Acceleration Plan to be unveiled today (2 December).
The Government is to consult on a raft of changes to the ‘Right to Buy’ scheme including extending the length of time someone has to be a tenant before they can buy their home and protecting newly built social homes from sale through exemptions.
The Law Commission has released its first consultation paper on the right to renew business tenancies under Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, also known as 'security of tenure'.
Cheshire East Council has been fined £500,000 after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the death of a dog walker in August 2020, killed by a falling tree, might have been avoided had the public area been better managed.
Woking Borough Council's former monitoring officer failed to challenge the former chief executive officer and former s151 officer over decisions to borrow large sums of money with no credible plan for repayment, a public interest report on the council's governance arrangements has concluded.
The High Court has refused an application by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to stay three judicial review claims challenging various provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.
The scale of the cladding crisis has "proved much bigger than the government initially understood", and up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding remain to be identified, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has suggested.
The Supreme Court has this month refused an application for permission to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s judgment in a dispute over the deregistration of town and village greens (TVGs).
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is seeking permission to intervene in a Court of Appeal case relating to housing energy efficiency standards, which the watchdog said would set a precedent concerning how the government takes account of environmental issues in its policies.
The London Borough of Haringey has successfully defended a judicial review claim brought by a private homeowner in a lengthy dispute concerning its decision to fell a street tree thought to be causing subsidence.
The High Court has granted Thurrock Council and Essex County Council a five-year injunction subject to yearly review against persons unknown in response to protest activity by Just Stop Oil.
A recent judgment has reinforced the importance of landlord intentions under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Kirsty Black and Sophie Tracey look at the lessons from the case.
These webinars are designed to introduce key topics that are likely to crop up for property litigators. The talks will provide an overview of the legal and procedural landscape with plenty of time for delegates to ask questions at the end.
This session will provide delegates with an overview of three key areas: notices; procedure in lease renewals and PD 56; and tactics tips and tricks in opposed claims.
42BR members Samuel Davis and Krishma Patel present this webinar, aimed at junior solicitors and practitioners, on particulars of claim in possession cases, and possession cases generally.
Rory Stracey and Callum Traynor summarise the key changes to aspects of the CPO (compulsory purchase order) process in the Government's guidance and consider what the changes might mean, particularly in the affordable housing sector.
In an important ruling for both operators and site providers on the Electronic Communications Code, the Upper Tribunal has defined the limits of license assignments. Azmina Fozdar looks at the implications of the judgment.
The High Court has dismissed a judicial review of the Department for Transport’s refusal to lease a historic property, which had been acquired as part of the land assembly relating to HS2. Charles Streeten and Armin Solimani explain why.
Helen Arthur and Rachel Murray-Smith analyse a recent Technology and Construction Court decision finding that a freeholder, a Special Purpose Vehicle, had breached a Freehold Purchase Agreement.
In the fourth session of our Civil Fraud Webinar Series 2024 - 2025, Andrew Carter and Paul Fuller review the law, together with some recent authorities, and discuss practical and tactical considerations in relation to property fraud; real, personal, legal and equitable.
As we hit the ground running in 2025, Daniel Searle looks back at some of the key developments of the Building Safety Act (“BSA”) in 2024 and opines on where we may be headed in the future.
James Mallery-Nelson analyses a 1996 High Court decision that established a key precedent, providing commercial landlords with a common law mechanism to enforce tenants’ repairing obligations under their leases.
The Upper Tribunal has clarified the FTT’s limits on policy interpretation in a dispute over a financial penalty imposed on a letting agent by a local authority. Riccardo Calzavara analyses the ruling.
A Divisional Court recently upheld a district judge’s decision in a case over licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMO) used for asylum seekers. The decision is of significant public importance concerning the enforcement of housing standards in HMOs, write Stephanie Harrison KC and Tim Baldwin.