Last Tuesday, the High Court handed down its decision in R (Rights: Community: Action) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2020] EWHC 3073 (Admin). This judicial review challenged regulations amending the Use Classes Order (UCO) (the UCO Amendment Regulations) which introduced a new, wide Use Class E (see our blog post … Read more

As posted earlier this month on the Herbert Smith Freehills IP Group blog (see here), the Herbert Smith Freehills IP and Real Estate teams have produced a quick guide to the intellectual property issues that can arise in relation to real estate. Read our Quick Guide to Intellectual Property Rights relating to Real Estate transactions … Read more

It’s sometimes hard to remember that amongst all of the Covid-19 and Brexit related work that the government is contending with there is still other business to be undertaken. In July of this year, the government released a draft “Building Safety Bill” which aims to introduce a “new era of accountability … for the design, … Read more

Last year, you may recall that we released a market and legal report which looked at the rise in co-living arrangements in the UK and across France, Germany and Spain.  The idea of converting empty buildings into shared living schemes with common amenity spaces got us thinking about other drivers for change and we could … Read more

Following the release of the “Planning for the future” consultation in the summer, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) subsequently issued a further consultation document entitled “Transparency and Competition: A call for evidence on data on land control”, the aim of which is to increase transparency around “contractual arrangements used to exercise … Read more

“Planning for the future”, the government’s Planning White Paper published on 6 August 2020 and on which the consultation closes this week (29 October 2020), has been widely publicised and analysed in depth by the development community. As we said in our blog earlier this month, given the impact of the White Paper’s proposals on … Read more

Two months ago the government published “Planning for the future“, a Planning White Paper proposing the most radical changes to the English planning system since the Second World War. The proposals have been the subject of much debate across the development industry. With the consultation closing in just over three weeks, developers still have time … Read more

Updated 28 September 2020 In March 2020, the Government introduced unprecedented measures which restricted a landlord’s ability to pursue remedies for recovery of arrears (but also breaches of other covenants), should a tenant fail to pay the rent due under its lease. These measures were always stated to be temporary in nature, and aimed to … Read more