4/9/2025 11:09:43 AM Construction industry remains susceptible to insolvencies By Karen Morean Recent industry news makes for worrying reading as insolvencies within the construction industry continues. A recent report by the...
4/3/2025 3:22:25 PM Publication of new NHBC Housing Warranty Policies including changes in respect of insolvency cover By Triya Maicha Philip Evans Ben Halsey On 1 April 2025, the National Housebuilding Council (NHBC) published an updated version of its Buildmark and Buildmark Choice Housing...
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...
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...
12/19/2024 11:25:14 AM Spotlight on reporting privilege By Pauline Lépissier On 13 December 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in Iqbal v Geo TV [2024] EWCA Civ 1566 considering in some detail the...
12/18/2024 10:18:10 AM Homes England publishes ‘clearance’ database of Section 106 affordable housing sites By Ben Halsey Triya Maicha Jonathan Corris Jonathan Jarvis +1 more... Show less Homes England (HE) has now made available the Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service, which is a database (or what some are...
12/11/2024 10:40:04 AM Top Tips: handling negative press By Nikki Bowker It is easy to think of recent examples of people/organisations handling negative press poorly, in a way that has served only to worsen...
10/30/2024 3:22:00 PM 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...
10/2/2024 8:20:38 AM 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...
9/19/2024 12:37:19 PM The Procurement Act 2023 – shining a spotlight on supplier poor performance By Nikki Bowker The new Act places a spotlight on supplier poor performance in a number of ways: Lower threshold in respect of poor performance to...