Nicola Gooch

The New London Plan: Higher Densities; A Focus on Small Sites and a Huge Hike in Affordable Housing Targets

This year, December 1st has added significance.  Not only is it the first day of advent and the first socially-acceptable day to put up a...

30/11/17

Joanne Moseley

Breaking news: Gig economy workers may be able to claim holiday pay going back years

The European Court of Justice has today handed down a judgment on holiday pay in the case of King v Sash Windows that will have huge...

29/11/17

Joanne Moseley

Budget: National Living Wage to increase by 33 pence per hour

Buried under the headlines of the Budget, the Government has announced that the National Living Wage will increase from £7.50 to £7.83...

22/11/17

Nicola Gooch

Budget 2017: Disappointing CIL Reforms & Other 'News'

It is probably a good thing that I have not been waiting on today's CIL announcement with bated breath.  For one thing, the Government's...

22/11/17

Nicola Gooch

Tough talk from Ministers over the weekend, but will this be a 'House-Building' Budget?

I fully intend to make up for my spectacularly failure to write a piece last week*, by boring you all with at least two budget related...

20/11/17

Nicola Gooch

Concreting over the Countryside - an English 'Urban' Myth

Earlier this week, the BBC Website published a really interesting research tool, which allows you to look up the percentage of land in a...

09/11/17

Joanne Moseley

Sexual harassment in the workplace: Rehabilitating the perpetrator

I woke up this morning to news that Kelvin Hopkins, Labour MP for Luton North has had the parliamentary whip suspended following...

03/11/17

Irwin Mitchell

Got something to say about Commercial Service Charges?

Residential service charges are subject to statutory control. In the commercial world, however, many a tenant has been mauled by what...

02/11/17