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...

6/25/2025 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 1:09:24 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...

5/21/2025 2:38:41 PM

Supreme Court publishes decision on URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd

By James King Will O'Brien

Story so far… URS was the structural engineer for BDW in relation to residential tower blocks that were developed between 2005 and 2012. ...

5/16/2025 12:25:38 PM

New London Plan Consultation is now live

By Hannah Langford Camilla Weston Ben Halsey

The Greater London Authority (GLA) has published its formal consultation document, ‘Towards a New London Plan’, asking stakeholders and...

5/15/2025 4:40:41 PM

HCLG expresses concerns over Government response to the Grenfell Tower fire

By Zoe McLean-Wells Ellie Fletcher

The House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government committee (HCLG) has written to the Angela Raynor (Secretary of State) and...

4/29/2025 11:24:24 AM

HM Land Registry strategic priorities and housing targets

By Ben Halsey

In February, Matthew Pennycook, the Minister of State for Housing and Planning, wrote to the Board Chair of His Majesty’s Land Registry...

4/28/2025 12:50:19 PM

Heathrow substation fire raises important issues about electricity infrastructure

By Nat Cartwright Ben Halsey

The recent fire which broke out at the North Hyde substation (SST) in Hayes, west London received significant publicity over the...

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