Oct 30, 2024 Budget: Well that was a surprise (only joking) By Neil Toner Rachel Reeves has just delivered Labour’s first budget for over 14 years. And, whilst it contained some very significant tax changes and...
Oct 22, 2024 Roof garden storeys: MHCLG asks sector and regulators to disregard FTT ruling By Will O'Brien On 18 October 2024, the Government published a joint statement on the issue of whether a roof garden is classified as a storey when...
Oct 02, 2024 Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund, Wave 3 and Subsidy Control Compliance By Joanna Bouloux Jonathan Jarvis Applications for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (formerly known as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (the “Fund”)), Wave 3...
Sep 27, 2024 Building Safety Conference 2024 - Construction Department's Top 10 Takeaways By Mark London Building on the success of our 2023 conference, this year we welcomed around 350 delegates to our Flagship Building Safety Conference...
Sep 12, 2024 High Risk Buildings: Security Considerations By Charlotte Ingram The horror of the tragedy at Grenfell Tower continues to reverberate throughout the social housing sector, as we soberly digest the...
Sep 05, 2024 Grenfell review By Mark London James Mapley Will O'Brien The Phase 2 Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report (the “Inquiry”) was released on 4 September 2024 principally setting out recommendations on how...
Aug 30, 2024 Building Safety Act 2022: Devonshires' Flagship Conference Returns By Lee Russell Mark London Following last year’s success, we are delighted to announce the return of our flagship conference on the Building Safety Act 2022. The...
Aug 15, 2024 The importance of three words By Lena Barnes Mark London Asif Patel The Court of Appeal has handed down a judgment on the termination provisions of the 2016 Edition of the JCT Standard Form of Design and...
Jul 18, 2024 Collateral warranties are not construction contracts: the Supreme Court’s decision in Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) Ltd v Augusta 2008 LLP By Patrick Trevor Summary In its judgment in Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) Ltd (Respondent) v Augusta 2008 LLP (formerly Simply Construct (UK) LLP)...
Jul 15, 2024 All Change? Building Safety under the Labour Government By Sasha Pirbhai The new Government’s focus on building safety will result in incremental changes, not ground-breaking shifts in policy or practice...
Jul 05, 2024 All Change? A guide to the new Government By Devonshires News So, the electorate has spoken and we have a new Labour Government (note: not the same thing as a New Labour Government). Whichever Prime...
Jul 01, 2024 Are RPs geared up to deal with inquests? By Samantha Grix The answer to the above question is all too often ‘no’ and is something that needs consideration. Fiona Underwood of Altair and I have...