If you are in the process of calculating the forthcoming 1% rent reduction & sending out letters to tenants please read this!

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Some good news on the Housing & Planning Bill!

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The Pre-Action Protocol for Possession claims by Social Landlords (“the Protocol”) has now been in force since 6th April 2015.

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The Upper Tribunal considered the meaning and effect of Section 27A(5) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 following a challenge by a leaseholder as to the reasonableness of service charges that had been paid during a 12 year period.

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Since our recent briefing on the changes to Section 21 Notices, the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (which are now in force) have been made to address the obvious problems we previously referred you to regarding the prescribed form of the Section 21 Notice.

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The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 (“Regulations”) come into force on 1st October 2015

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The Supreme Court has held that a golf course can be registered as a village green.

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The Supreme Court has recently clarified the circumstances in which statutory undertakers can refuse to allow developers to connect to sewers.

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In a recent case (Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v Wolverhampton City Council and Tesco Stores Ltd) the Court of Appeal dismissed Sainsbury’s challenge to the Council’s resolution to make a compulsory purchase order in favour of Tesco’s competing scheme

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Many developers will be familiar with the concept of “golden brick” contracts, where the sale is completed when the construction of new dwellings being built on land has reached the stage that allows the transaction to be zero rated for VAT purposes.

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A recent case highlights that developers must be aware of the requirements of statutory undertakers for providing service connections.

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Development sites are often subject to restrictive covenants preventing anything that would cause “nuisance or annoyance” to owners of nearby land.

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