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New law: Planning permission for solar panels on larger commercial buildings
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- 01 Jan 2024
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Businesses with large commercial premises, developers and those in the solar panel industry will welcome a government announcement that it plans to extend ‘permitted development rights’ to streamline installation of larger rooftop solar panels on commercial premises.
New laws: Government delays or drops green and other property-related proposals
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- 01 Nov 2023
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Property owners, landlords, tenants, managing agents and lenders should ensure they are aware of which green and other government proposals are to be delayed or dropped, and which new exemptions are proposed, following recent government announcements.
New guidance: New fire safety guidance for multi-unit residential buildings
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- 01 Oct 2023
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Persons responsible for multi-residential buildings in England – which can include owners, long leaseholders, tenants and managing agents – will welcome Home Office guidance to help them comply with new fire safety rules in force from the beginning of 2023.
New consultation: Government consults on changes to permitted development rights
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Property owners, developers, farmers and other landowners are considering a government consultation which proposes changes to planning rules to make it easier to change sites from commercial to residential use, and from agricultural to commercial use.
New guidance: New guidance on ‘higher-risk buildings’ in building and maintenance
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- 01 Aug 2023
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Architects, surveyors, property agents and landlords are having to take account of ongoing changes to new laws regulating how higher-risk buildings are planned, built and maintained to stay legal.
New law: Proposed new laws for residential tenants put before Parliament
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- 01 Jul 2023
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Landlords will welcome publication of draft legislation which clarifies the government’s proposals for reform of laws governing residential lettings.
New law: New fire safety laws for residential buildings in England
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- 01 Feb 2023
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Persons responsible for residential buildings in England – which can include owners, long leaseholders, tenants and managing agents – should ensure they are complying with new fire safety rules in force from 23 January 2023.
New practice: Energy crisis prompts commercial landlords and tenants to act
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Commercial landlords and tenants are planning how to reduce or mitigate future energy costs for their properties, to help tenants stay in business and landlords meet their obligations while remaining profitable.
New law: Commercial property with energy rating below E to be unlettable
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- 01 Nov 2022
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- Legal Alert
Commercial landlords in England & Wales are considering what they need to do as a result of new restrictions which will stop them from not only granting new leases but also continuing existing leases of non-domestic properties with an energy rating below E, which come into force from 1 April 2023.
New law: Residential landlords and tenants face new laws changing their rights and obligations towards each other
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- 01 Jul 2022
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The balance of the legal relationship between residential landlords and tenants looks set to change following announcements in the recent Queen’s Speech.
New law: Commercial landlords in England face new rules forcing them to let out empty properties
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- 01 Jun 2022
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High street and other commercial landlords are considering the potential impact on their businesses of government plans to allow local authorities to force commercial landlords to rent out their empty properties, announced in the recent Queen’s Speech.
New law: Government updates Code for resolving rent arrears issues between commercial landlords and tenants in England and Wales
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- 01 May 2022
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Landlords and tenants of commercial property in England and Wales still trying to agree how to deal with arrears of rent built up because of COVID-19 will welcome an updated Code of Practice ‘Guidance: Commercial rent code of practice following the COVID-19 pandemic’ to help them negotiate a resolution.
New practice: Business tenants should consider legal implications before offering to take in goods ordered online by local residents as a new service
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- 01 May 2022
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Shops, garages and other retailers considering offering to receive goods ordered online by local residents as a new service now that many of those residents have returned to work, need to consider the legal implications before doing so.
New law: Employers in certain sectors can now offer shorter-term ‘flexi-job’ apprenticeships
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- 01 Apr 2022
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Employers in the creative and construction sectors will welcome new rules from 6 April 2022 which enable them to take on ‘flexi-job’ apprentices on short-term placements, rather than for a full year.
New law: Developers face new rules to reduce CO2 emissions in new buildings from June 2022
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- 01 Mar 2022
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Developers are preparing for changes to Building Regulations from 15 June 2022 which require a reduction in CO2 emissions from new-build homes and from non-residential new builds, and set new standards regarding overheating and ventilation.
New law: Government adds detail to proposed ringfencing and arbitration regime for commercial tenants in arrears in England
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- 01 Jan 2022
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Landlords and tenants of commercial property in England are assessing newly-published details for the proposed new ringfencing and arbitration procedure to apply where tenants owe arrears of rent that built up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New law: Developers start to plan for new requirements for electric vehicle charging points in developments
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- 01 Jan 2022
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Developers are starting to plan for proposed new laws requiring them to include charging points for electric vehicles in both residential and non-residential developments, and when carrying out major renovations.
New practice: Workers planning to work from home should make sure they are not breaching planning laws
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- 01 Jan 2022
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Before working from home, homeowners should consider whether this amounts to a material change in the use they make of their home for planning purposes and if so whether their use is incidental to their enjoyment of it, to avoid breaching planning law.
New guidance: New guidance imminent for homeowners suffering from Japanese knotweed
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- 01 Nov 2021
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Residential property owners and developers, surveyors, lenders and insurers should look out for guidance from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and others, to be published later in 2021, which will help them deal with the impact of Japanese knotweed on the value of residential properties.
New law: COVID-related legal protections for commercial tenants in arrears of rent in England extended yet again
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- 01 Aug 2021
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Landlords of commercial property in England face further extensions to temporary laws that protect their commercial tenants from specified legal actions against them to recover rent arrears - and a new and unexpected ringfencing and arbitration procedure.
New practice: Building contracts should be reviewed to take account of shortage of materials and other operational issues
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- 01 Aug 2021
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Businesses and individuals ordering or supplying building materials, or managing building projects, should ensure their contracts make it clear what happens if there are supply issues for building materials (given the current shortages of these) and if COVID-related staff absences and social distancing cause delays, or risk costly legal disputes.
New law: Landlords must comply with new laws where tenants require faster broadband
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- 01 Aug 2021
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Residential landlords should review their processes so they will be able to identify notices received from an Ofcom registered operator requesting access to their properties to install and maintain broadband equipment, and respond appropriately, to avoid an access and maintenance agreement being imposed on them by the courts.
New law: Landlords may not be able to recover rent arrears from residential tenants because of new ‘breathing space’ laws
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- 01 Jul 2021
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Landlords need to be aware of a new Breathing Space scheme which allows individuals who are in debt to apply for a ‘breathing space’, during which they try to sort out their finances and the landlord cannot recover arrears of rent.
New law: Planning law changes in England make it easier to change buildings from commercial, business and service use to residential
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- 01 May 2021
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- Legal Alert
Developers, property owners and funders will welcome changes to planning laws that permit developments in England altering use of property from commercial business and service (Class E) to residential (Class C3), under a new Class MA (Mercantile to Abode), provided certain conditions are met.
New practice: Getting out of a lease
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- 01 Apr 2021
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- Legal Alert
Businesses who lease premises but whose workforce may not all return to work when COVID-19 restrictions are eased are considering whether to look for smaller premises, or to reduce the space they rent – but need to know how they can get out of their existing lease, or vary it, to achieve what they want.
New law: Employers planning for employees who refuse a COVID-19 vaccination and for other vaccination issues
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- 01 Feb 2021
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Employers now need to plan what they will do if an employee refuses a vaccination against COVID-19 and address other vaccination-related issues such as changes to their employment policies.
New law: COVID-related legal protections, for commercial tenants in arrears of rent in England, extended to 31 March 2021
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- 01 Jan 2021
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Tenants of commercial property in England will welcome a further extension to temporary laws that protect them from certain legal actions by their landlords for arrears of rent, to 31 March 2021.
New law: Government plans to make 'economic abuse' a domestic abuse crime
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- 01 Jan 2021
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A person in a relationship with someone who uses finances to exercise coercive control over them will be able to take advantage of proposals to make 'economic abuse' a form of domestic abuse, as such cases continue to rise during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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