Estates Gazette
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Cambridge City Council v Traditional Cambridge Tours Ltd and others
Trespass – Injunction – Punting – Claimant council applying for interim injunction against defendants preventing commercial punt operations on river – Whether defendants trespassing on claimant’s land – Whether activities…
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Acceptable value: how low can you go?
Housing associations, local authorities and charities will sometimes need to dispose of land cheaply, but how do they derive an acceptable price?
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Corvan (Properties) Ltd v Abdel-Mahmoud
Landlord and tenant Service charges
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Corvan (Properties) Ltd v Abdel-Mahmoud
Landlord and tenant – Service charges – Qualifying long term agreement – Appellant freeholder engaging managing agents for block of flats – First-tier Tribunal (FTT) disallowing part of management fees…
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Drafting leases for life sciences
The importance for landlords of understanding the unique requirements of tenants in the growing life sciences sector
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Section 106 review mechanisms: A help or hindrance?
The use of viability appraisals to test the ability of schemes to bear affordable housing and other infrastructure requirements sought by local planning authorities is becoming commonplace. Increasingly, where proposals…
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After Grenfell, who bears the cost of fire safety?
James Driscoll considers the first reported case on tower block fire safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster
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National deals round-up
Pick of the deals from around the country this week
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News in brief
Investments, developments and industry moves making headlines this week.
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Parkhurst Road Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
Town and country planning Affordable housing
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Parkhurst Road Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
Town and country planning – Planning permission – Affordable housing – Claimant applying for statutory review of dismissal of appeal against refusal of planning permission for residential development – Whether…
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Getting serious on environmental offences
The cost of breaking environmental law is getting higher, but taking common sense precautions can avoid a heavy fine