Devonshires

7/2/2025 8:00:54 AM

UK Government Launches Ambitious Ten-Year Infrastructure Strategy – perspectives for housing and other social infrastructure

By Caroline Mostowfi

Following the recent Spending Review and related announcements, the UK Government has now provided a landmark ten-year Infrastructure...

6/30/2025 11:02:37 AM

Building Safety Regulator Reform - a 'Fast Track' process

By James King

HRB building control approval applications under the new approval process, known as Gateway 2, have been facing criticism for the...

6/30/2025 8:00:44 AM

New Resolution Process for Building Safety Claims in the TCC and FTT

By Alicia Ogborn Will O'Brien

The Building Safety Act Working Group announced on Friday 20 June 2025 that it intends to introduce a new streamlined resolution process...

6/27/2025 1:24:45 PM

Beyond the Fine Print: Are Penalty Clauses Enforceable?

By Prateek Sharma Michael Lewis Will O'Brien

English law recognises the autonomy of contracting parties, subject to some exceptions in terms of consumer contracts and tenancy...

6/25/2025 12:43:01 PM

The Expanding Reach of Environmental Criminal Law

By Michael Lewis Prateek Sharma

Think breaching a Tree Preservation Order is just a planning issue? Think again. Environmental offences are no longer a side note in...

6/24/2025 4:17:51 PM

A new National Housing Bank to catalyse funding for housebuilding

By Gary Grigor Alice Overton Jonathan Corris +1 more...

The UK Government’s support for housing continued at the end of last week, with their announcement of the creation of the National...

6/23/2025 2:59:53 PM

The FTT finds that legal costs of Remediation Order and Remediation Contribution Order applications can be recovered via a RCO

By Zoe McLean-Wells Will O'Brien

The First-tier Tribunal (“FTT”) recently arrived at its decision in respect of a Remediation Order (RO) pursuant to section 123 of the...

6/18/2025 1:19:59 PM

Social Housing to receive equal access to the Building Safety Fund

By Rachel Jones Mark London

The Building Safety Fund is a fund of over £5bn that provides grants for the remediation of buildings over 18 metres. Under existing...

6/18/2025 1:09:24 PM

Midas v Harmsworth: Security for costs in adjudication enforcement

By Will O'Brien John O'Mahony

Where an insolvent party has the benefit of an adjudication decision, it must provide sufficient security for the Defendant’s legal costs...

6/11/2025 3:56:37 PM

Spending Review marks a big renewal for housing in the UK

By Triya Maicha Jonathan Corris Ben Halsey

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presented her 2025 Spending Review (SR25) to Parliament today and, on the face of things, it was very good...

5/30/2025 11:03:49 AM

Roof garden storeys: new MHCLG guidance reiterates that FTT is wrong

By Will O'Brien

Back in October 2024, a ruling of the First-Tier Tribunal cast doubt over the accuracy and legality of Government guidance as to...

5/30/2025 10:57:23 AM

Grenfell - The First Progress Report

By Lena Barnes

Following the Government’s acceptance of all the findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry on 26 February 2025, it agreed to take action to...

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