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John Stephenson, Senior Partner at BDB, believes that the Supreme Court ruling that a house in English law must involve a substantial element which is used or usable as a residential dwelling is one of the most decisive, unequivocal rulings he has ever seen.

Today's entry reports on the current status of the judicial reviews of Planning Act 2008 decisioNS.

Today's entry reports on the possibility of housing developments being considered nationally significant infrastructure projects.

With the current economic climate, landlords are increasingly finding that they have vacant units which they will often wish to secure occupation of on a short term basis, while they market the unit for a longer term let.

In May 2013, the Law Society published an updated version of the Seller’s Property Information Form known as "Form TA6".

This week, there was progress on all three phases of HS2, the high speed rail line proposed from London to Leeds and Manchester.

After many years of discussions and abortive plans, the government is proposing to introduce a road user charging scheme for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), intended to come into force by 2015.

Deciding whether services are best provided in house or outsourced to private contractors is a major decision for independent schools.

John Hurdley, Partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that The Secretary of State has played a careful hand and taken sensible measures with regard to the plan for managing and harnessing the increasingly scarce but vital resource of water - set out in the Water White Paper.

In the wake of the Energy Act 2011 being given Royal Assent last month, Jennifer Chappell, associate at law firm Bircham Dyson Bell, believes that legislation within it to govern the energy efficiency of properties will never meet the 2016 and 2018 deadlines.

The blog will focus in particular on the Public Bodies Bill and will follow the Bill through to its enactment and implementation whilst commenting on related legal and policy developments over the coming months.

A new streamlined planning consent system that could change the fortunes of the energy, transport, water and waste sectors is still not fully understood by major infrastructure project promoters.

The announcement today by the FSA of an agreement with four retail banks over reviewing interest rate hedging deals is welcome.

On 25 June 2013, a number of changes to the UK whistleblowing legislation were introduced by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (ERRA).

The Planning Act 2008 introduces a new regime for authorising sixteen types of nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP). This entry focuses on one of these – electricity generation.

This is entry number 261, published on 14 July 2011, of a blog on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation regime.

We live in straightened times. For the first time in more than a decade, there is huge pressure to make cuts from both capital and revenue budgets.