Devonshires

12/31/2025 9:30:11 AM

BSR gets tough: first injunction preventing occupation

By Riah Bleasby-Doherty Geri Batchelor

For the first time, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has exercised its regulatory function under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA)...

12/30/2025 9:30:10 AM

Updated Gateway 2 Guidance

By James King

The BSR has updated its higher-risk building approval guidance in relation to: Staged applications - A new section headed ‘Staged...

12/29/2025 2:30:36 PM

Higher-Risk Building Control Process set out for Wales

By Mark London James King

The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025 ("the Regulations") was laid before the Senedd on 17 December...

12/18/2025 2:20:18 PM

Higher-Risk Building Definition Anti-Climax

By Mark London Lee Russell

Currently, the definition of a higher-risk building (HRB) is any building that is: at least 18 metres in height, or at least 7...

12/16/2025 9:23:37 AM

House of Lords brand BSR delays as "unacceptable" and makes recommendations for reform

By Mark London Asif Patel James King

Everyone involved with building work on higher-risk buildings (HRBs) will be acutely aware of the frustration that building control...

11/26/2025 5:55:34 PM

Autumn Budget 2025: much anticipated, but more detail awaited

By Gemma Bell Ben Halsey

As is not unusual, the Chancellor's Autumn Budget sets out measures aimed at achieving fiscal stability and supporting its growth agenda....

11/26/2025 9:32:49 AM

Preparing for Heat Network Regulation: Timelines, Obligations, and Next Steps

By Kris Kelliher Jonathan Jarvis

Understand the UK’s new heat network regulations, phased from 2025 to 2028, and what they mean for operators, landlords, and developers....

10/13/2025 12:54:15 PM

Data Centres and the UK Planning System: A Sector in Flux

By Dan Moan Caroline Mostowfi Hannah Langford

Introduction Data centres have rapidly evolved from niche infrastructure to strategic assets at the heart of the UK’s digital economy. As...

9/25/2025 1:00:41 PM

The Developer Remediation Contract for Wales

By Lena Barnes John O'Mahony

You may have missed that over the summer, as part of a phased introduction of changes, the Welsh Government has published its Developer...

9/19/2025 9:15:01 AM

Update to the Remediation Acceleration Plan and the Remediation Bill

By Mark London Kathryn Kligerman Bethany Penman +1 more...

The Government’s update to its Remediation Acceleration Plan (“RAP”) gives landlords no other choice up than to sit up and take action to...

9/19/2025 8:57:23 AM

Joint plan to accelerate the remediation of social housing

By Matthew Cocklin Alicia Ogborn Bethany Penman

In August 2025, the Government published its joint plan to accelerate the remediation of social housing (“the Joint Plan”). The Joint...

9/9/2025 12:56:31 PM

When nomination process affects adjudication enforcement: RNJM Limited v Purpose Social Homes Limited

By Kathryn Kligerman Will O'Brien Holly Mason

In RNJM Limited v Purpose Social Homes Limited [2025] EWHC 2224 (TCC), a respondent to an application for enforcement of an adjudicator’s...

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