Demolition job
The Government has published a new Demolition Direction, which confirms that permission is only required for demolition of buildings larger […]
Roy Pinnock
Full bioBuild to let case still needs to be made
Attending the launch of the Urban Land Institute’s Best Practice Design Guide for Build To Rent, it is clear there […]
Family Hold Back
Dentons and London First hold an annual lunch at MIPIM for leading politicians, developers, investors, public officials and property professionals. […]
MIPIM 2014: London Calling for more homes
This year’s MIPIM is upbeat and dominated by an industry intent on making the most of intense demand for homes […]
Bar still rising for EIA challenges
There has been a steady flow of cases winding back the scope for legal challenges on the grounds of defective […]
New Towns Act 2015?
Dentons sponsored the TCPA to produce a new version of the New Towns Act, updated to make it fit to […]
The first or last hurrah?
Hurrah An appeal asking for a change to affordable housing requirements has finally been refused. Until now applications have been […]
Shale blockade will fail
We noted in our January fracking update (2014 – Year of shale for planners) that activist owners and interest groups […]
Ministry of relief
Lawyers generally hate unique solutions. No-one wants to be at the bleeding edge. But there are some planning issues that […]
Stopped up
This is a cheat repeal. We should abolish the right for statutory undertakers to object to stopping up orders. CLG […]
Limits to growth: pre-commencement conditions
Housebuilders are up in arms about the use of conditions requiring approvals before work can start holding back delivery of […]
Shale gale keeps blowing
David Cameron has confirmed that the Government is ‘going all out for shale’, on a site visit in the Gainsborough […]