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What effect has the Environmental Protection Act 1990 had on the law relating to statutory nuisance?. Litter and abandoned shopping trolleys; waste on land and pollution at sea; clean air…

by Russell Schiller and Jonathan Reynolds. In 1985 we produced a measurement of British Shopping Centres (both town centres and purpose-built shopping centres) and have now updated our exercise.

by Steven Fogel. Colin Bell invites debate about fitting-out assumptions and rent-free periods in “Back to the drawing board”(*). The climate is right for re-appraising the internal consistency of rent-review…

by Dominic Taylor. An alarming amount of time seems to be spent these days on disputes over the relatively simple matter of how to treat the VAT element of costs…

by Tim Smithers. Establishing the identity of the “competent landlord” is critical to any lease renewal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (“the 1954 Act”).

by Peta Dollar and Christopher McGee-Osborne. Section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 has caused considerable controversy in the property world.

by Richard Johnson. Much has been written recently about the current uncertain state of the property investment and development markets. The enterprise zone investment market has, since the early 1980s,…

In a recent case on the compulsory acquisition of advertising hoardings, reference was made to a “48-sheet poster”. What is meant by this term and how are such hoardings valued?.

by Saleem Shamash. To operate the expanding range of new technology, sophisticated telecommunications networks have been established requiring aerials, microwave dishes, optical fibre cables, supporting structures and towers, and associated…

by Josephine Flattery. Party wall legislation is controlled by Part VI of the London Building (Amendment) Act 1939, which represents the combination of several statutory regulations which have evolved since…

Do squatters have any rights?. Squatters, who move into someone’s property or who acquire an extra piece of garden, may mutate from wrongful trespassers into lawful owners.

by Martin Edwards and John Martin. Nowadays it is axiomatic that whenever new legislation is enacted it will be amended shortly afterwards.