3/31/2025 11:19:28 AM Spring Statement - 2025 By Ben Halsey The key announcements for the housing sector in the Chancellor's Spring Statement last week were as follows: 2bn grant...
3/26/2025 11:54:04 AM 5 key takeaways from Devonshires' Breakfast Briefing on the Commonhold White Paper By Jonathan Corris Mark Foxcroft Ben Halsey Earlier this week, we were pleased to hold a breakfast briefing on the Government’s Commonhold White Paper (CWP). The briefing...
3/25/2025 11:31:32 AM Upper Tribunal varies flat leases enabling a Right to Manage company to recover costs of service charge enforcement By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Under Part IV of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (the Act), a party to a long lease of a flat can apply to the First-Tier Tribunal...
3/13/2025 9:09:58 AM Adverse Possession: 10 years immediately preceding or any 10 years? By Zoe McLean-Wells Lucy Vannet The Supreme Court recently published its landmark judgment in the case of Brown (Respondent) -v- Ridley and Another (Appellants) which...
3/5/2025 11:15:32 AM The Crime and Policing Bill- what does it mean for housing providers? By Victoria Smith The Crime and Policing bill (‘the Bill’) was introduced to House of Commons and had its first reading on 25 February 2025. The second...
3/4/2025 11:10:30 AM The Government has announced the beginning of the end of the ‘feudal’ leasehold system By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Shannon Morrison On 3 March 2025, the Ministry of Housing published the Commonhold White Paper which seeks to make landmark reforms on the leasehold...
3/3/2025 8:43:32 AM Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 - Sections affecting Right to Manage come into force today By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 sections in relation to the Right to Manage to come into force today (3 March 2025) On the 6...
2/26/2025 5:09:45 PM Government Responds to the Phase 2 Grenfell Inquiry Report By Mark London On 26 February 2025, in a Ministerial statement in the House of Commons, Angela Rayner commented on the Phase 2 report and noted that the...
2/25/2025 1:18:20 PM The one about the Moths, the Mansion, and Misrepresentation - Iva Patarkatsishvili & Yevhen Hunyak v William Woodward-Fisher [2025] EWHC 265 (Ch) By Ben Halsey Stavrina Tofallis Judgment has now been handed down by the High Court in the above case: Judiciary.uk Aside from representing a unique opportunity for...
2/14/2025 1:35:09 PM 5 Key Takeaways - Tackling Fraud in Social Housing Conference By Nikki Bowker Victoria Smith Rachel Orgill-Harris Earlier this week, we held our Tackling Fraud in Social Housing Conference. Our in-house fraud experts and a number of external speakers...
2/12/2025 4:22:04 PM Breaking news - Top-up package announced for Affordable Housing funding programme(s) By Ben Halsey Additional funding has been announced in respect of the existing Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) - £300m for the delivery of up to 2,800...
2/7/2025 3:37:23 PM Awaab's Law - UPDATE By Victoria Smith A press release from the MHCLG has confirmed that from October, social landlords will be forced to investigate and fix dangerous damp and...