Planning update: The autumn statement and more

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | December 2022/January 2023 #403
Fiona Sawyer provides a brief summary and analysis of the impact on planning reform of the Autumn Statement and the government’s subsequent announcements We’ve been told that the investment zones programme is not abandoned altogether, but will instead be ‘refocused’ to ‘catalyse a limited number of the highest potential knowledge-intensive growth clusters’ centred on universities …

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The Growth Plan: Political upheaval and planning

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | November 2022 #402
Fiona Sawyer, Martyn Jarvis and Matthew White consider the Growth Plan and the uncertainties surrounding other planning reform It is telling that local authorities are already adopting their own biodiversity net gain policies, somewhat overriding whatever delay to legal implementation the government may propose. Planning is a close relation of politics – and events in …

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Building, fire safety and leasehold reform: With management comes responsibility

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP | March 2022 #395
Oliver Park argues that the government’s drive to abolish leasehold is difficult to reconcile with the growing regulation of the sector, in particular in relation to building and fire safety The process is typically driven forward by a few individuals, and participants often agree to join without properly thinking through whether they or any of …

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