If you saw my post yesterday about retail property vacancy rates, yesterday's CBI report may have you scratching your heads. The...

The BNP PARIBAS Real Estate Retail Focus q3 report shows vacancy rates declining in all areas of the UK to 12.9% overall. Footfall...

From 26 October 2015, all of the following statutory appeals will require permission from the High Court before they will be allowed to...

Reports are out today that the UK's top companies now have 25% women board members. This is certaintly an increase and positive move...

Savills, reported in EGi, the online news service of Estates Gazette are predicting a bumper year for foreign investment in non-domestic...

As a proud graduate of Bishop Wand Secondary School in Sunbury, I am pleased to see that TfL are now consulting on extending Crossrail 2...

Interesting commentary from Savills on world student housing. The need for high quality student accommodation continues to rise in the...

One of England's most notorious planning enforcement matters looks as if it might be in its final stages after a 'bench' arrest warrant...

Now there is a bottom line reason to do the right thing.

Financial services employers will not be greeting the need to publish variable pay, with joy. The differences in bonuses have long been...

I'm a lawyer, not an economist (and so part of the burgeoning service sector growth!), but I cannot help but be worried by the continued...

Sir Andrew Motion (President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England) wrote eloquently on the issue of affordable rural housing in...

The Community Infrastructure Levy is continuing its slow but steady march across the country, with news that almost a third of councils...

International (and European) students have historically had to contend with increased rents, increased level of deposits and insisting on...

Phew. I am one of those with a VW diesel and finally there is some good (or at least 'not bad') news from this debacle.

I am not at all surprised to see that leading companies and universities are being asked to remove names from application forms in an...

We are often asked questions about what is the best way to engage an individual and whether they are an employee, a worker, a self...

To date, rentcharge payers have had the benefit of a free of charge Government service when seeking to buy-out rentcharges. The formula...

From an employment law perspective, can a contract to kill someone stand up under scrutiny of UK employment tribunals, and what do real...

Back in July this year the Government published a consultation on proposals for mandatory gender pay reporting for larger employers,...

Further to my colleague Nicola's note on the planning aspects of this Bill, here is our note on the implications that the Bill will have...

In tens of thousands of cases, a financial penalty has been awarded against only 8 employers and 6 of those remain unpaid. We either...

It just does not seem right that an Act of Parliament guaranteeing our rights as citizens should be rushed through Parliament. ...

And there was me thinking that the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteed freedom of expression.

Only 20% of dads take shared parental leave as cultural pressure keeps them at the coal face

The government has announced that the 'right to rent' check to be carried out by Landlords is coming into force on 1 February 2016. The...

A parliamentary briefing paper has been published that discusses the proposals in this key housing bill. The quote summarises the main...

Little and late but better than nothing.

Love this story and the possibilities.

However, it also begs the question whether the definition of disability set out in the Equality...

The Property Data Report by the Property Industry Alliance contains a wealth of information about the value of real estate in the UK...

Further to my earlier comment, it should also be remembered that further changes aimed at improving the apprenticeships brand are on the...

A company director has been sent to prison for 8 months for breach of health and safety regulations

This is an interesting comment on the dilution of the quality of apprenticeships. However, the drive to increase the number of...

Company director gets 8 months inside for breach of health and safety regulations

On "Back to the Future Day", EGi, reporting from MIPIM UK, highlights another thing not predicted in the film - the massive changes in...

Amidst the reports of ever-increasing house prices, experts suggested that we might move toward the continental model of renting for a...

Ok I am shamelessly jumping on the bandwagon but I can't let Back to the Future Day pass without comment.

I really enjoyed reading the...

Workers who report wrongdoing by their employer and third parties (blow the whistle) are protected against victimisation and dismissal....

TFL may be able to help fill the gap. Reported in EGi from Estates Gazette today, TFL may use some of the land it is proposing to release...

A recent article on the BBC website about the politics of the housing crisis would certainly seem to suggest so.

The article reports on a...

Brighton & Hove City Council leader Warren Morgan (quoted below) has announced an ambitious JV with Hyde Housing Association intended...

The BPF have published their Build to Rent manifesto, available through bpf.org.uk.

Alongside encouraging statistics (and a rather cool...

The Department of Business has published guidance on zero hours contracts and when it is appropriate to use them.

Following the ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has produced a guide...

An interesting blog has been released by Savills this week highlighting the new ways in which we are working. The report suggests that...

Really interesting decision from the High Court today and it sounds like it was pretty emphatic outcome for Uber. This will certainly...

The Planning Team has produced a technical briefing note on the implications of the Housing and Planning Bill 2015.

The note is long, it...

This story highlights that more and more people are turning to social media to comment, correspond and vent their frustrations. It is...

More fall-out from the PM's announcement at Conference this week. Which policy will triumph, and where will the new homes come from?

The Prime Minister has outlined the likely contents of the Housing and Planning Bill. The starter homes initiative (replacing the...

The Trade Union Bill 2015-16 is being debated this week in committee in the House of Commons.

The Bill initially sought to cover a number...

The recent twitter campaign #ILookLikeAnEngineer has been quickly followed by others such as #ILookLikeAPhysicist and #ILookLikeASurgeon...

Two cases, one English and the other Scots in the last few months have given markedly different outcomes to what happens to property that...

It was disappointing but not surprising to see this morning the stereotypes and attitudes that still persist over what sort of jobs are...

Tesco has announced its deal to dispose of a number of its mothballed sites in the South East. Hopefully this will create an opportunity...

Once Tesco had announced that it was abandoning 49 of its development projects, the decision to sell some of the sites for residential...

They used to say life begins at 40 and as I turn 36 in November I hope this is true! Perhaps more importantly the Sex Discrimination Act...

We all know that it is a popular British pastime to speculate about the weather but if you are an employer you might be able to get one...

This is a really interesting article by my colleague, Dan Hedley, about protecting data when an employee accesses company information...

In a redundancy situation employees often just want to know what is going on and find out if they are going to have a job or not. So...

Pressure is mounting on the Ministry of Justice to review Employment Tribunal fees because the evidence is incontrovertible that badly...

The introduction of tribunal fees in 2013 has undoubtedly affected the number and type of employment tribunal claims being bought. The...

The Modern Slavery Act is due to come in to force this month

In a speech earlier today, Brandon Lewis provided more detail on the new permanent office to residential permitted development rights,...

West Sussex County Council has unveiled its plans for a new solar farm in West Sussex. This could be an innovative boost for the local...

David Cameron announced today that permitted development rights allowing Office to Residential conversions, introduced in 2013, are to...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal confirms that HR must limit itself to advice on procedure and not on guilt or sanction.

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act Regulations 2015 were made on 15 September 2015 which bring into force (on 1 October...

The FCA's new rules for whistleblowers, announced this week (and largely in force from September 2016), aim to improve and formalise...

Is it the BBC report or is it FiFa (or is it me)? The report is that Blatter et al have been 'provisionally' suspended as a punishment...

The Local Plans Expert Group, which was created by Brandon Lewis last month, is seeking views from the development industry on how best...

Many developers will be aware of the need to get bat and other ecology surveys as part of the planning process. The attached article from...

An interesting post by Savills today looks at the way Government policy is not addressing real problems in housing shortfalls, and the...

This case raises interesting points regarding whether a tenant is obliged to remove street art murals to comply with their repair...

David Cameron has announced in his keynote party conference speech that the Government will alter on-site affordable housing requirements...

David Cameron is shortly to announce his plans for ensuring the development of discounted homes for first time buyers.

The new proposals...

Mr Shannon must have hoped that he'd discovered an extremely lucrative loophole in the National Minimum Wage Regulations. He argued that...

From yesterday online businesses that hold personal data will need to deal with individual data protection authorities instead of relying...

The National Minimum Wage increases every year, normally in October and this October is no exception with the standard adult rate for the...

It's heartening to see praise for care in the UK, which often suffers from negative media attention. Employers will need to be open to...

The government has formally announced its 'four point plan' to encourage development in the UK.

Key measures include:

• The further...

Working grandparents will be entitled to share parental leave if George Osborne gets his way. Aunts and uncles next and what about...

New powers announced for local authorities may encourage growth - the overall impact on areas in need of regeneration remains to be seen.

It has been announced that the Government plans to extend shared parental leave beyond parents, to grandparents. However, employers who...

We've seen commercial rents having had to be adjusted to meet market forces. Now town councils have the flexibility to attract retailers...

This may not be the Planning Minister's first statement in response to Mr Justice Holgate's decision, last July, to quash the policy...

Following a ballot last week, 86% of members of the National Housing Federation (the representative body for housing associations) have...

It isn't often that the party conference season produces a genuine surprise for those in the property industry, but the appointment of...

In an appeal decision issued last week, the Secretary of State provided some much needed guidance on how to approach the pooling...

With the Conservative Government's controversial proposals to extend the Right to Buy to Housing Association properties dominating the...