Devonshires

10/28/2025 10:42:52 AM

Renters’ Rights Act Receives Royal Assent

By Anna Bennett

The Renters’ Rights Bill officially received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025, marking its formal passage into law. Although the Act is...

10/21/2025 3:34:30 PM

Court of Appeal re-affirms extent of landlords’ discretion to decide ‘reasonable’ apportionment of service charges in Abacus 4 Ltd v Bradley

By Mark Foxcroft

The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Abacus Land 4 Ltd v Bradley and another [2025] EWCA Civ 1308 provides important clarification on...

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...

7/31/2025 12:49:43 PM

Awaab's Law – a legislative update and, separately, recommendations for development transactions

By Triya Maicha Baljit Basra Charlotte Sawyer +1 more...

Background and Recent developments As readers will be aware, the introduction of Awaab's Law marks a significant shift in the...

7/23/2025 2:19:09 PM

CLC Issues New Guidance to Tackle Gateway 2 Delays

By Mark London Jonathan Corris Triya Maicha

Following on swiftly from the recent Fast Track Process announcement, the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has released a suite of...

7/17/2025 1:41:49 PM

New Infrastructure Projects Pipeline Published

By Caroline Mostowfi

As promised in the Government's 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy, the pipeline for new infrastructure projects has now been published...

7/10/2025 4:14:04 PM

Law Commission’s review of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 in respect - business leases and security of tenure

By Grant Duranti

What’s this all about? The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (aka the ‘54 Act) governs security of tenure for business premises. Specifically,...

7/10/2025 3:04:04 PM

Recent Government announcements and consultations, including the launch of the rebranded £39 Billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme

By Jonathan Corris Triya Maicha Jonathan Jarvis

The UK Government has over the last couple of weeks made several significant announcements and published a number of consultations,...

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...

6/25/2025 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...

6/11/2025 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...

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