All Legal articles – Page 23
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OnlineLandmark court case clarifies rights of intermediate landlords
The Court of Appeal has delivered an important verdict on the rights of intermediate landlords in lease extension claims in a case involving Howard de Walden Estates.
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ProfessionalBlack Friday shopping brings new questions for office space
Did you partake in Black Friday this year? Millions of us did. This retailing frenzy, imported from the US, sees tempting discounts of up to 75% offered online or in store, and many in the UK seem to lap it up.
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ProfessionalEngineering company achieves gold standard certification for office wellbeing
Last week, international multi-disciplinary engineering company Cundall’s new London office at One Carter Lane became the first building in Europe to achieve gold-level WELL certification.
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ProfessionalAutumn Statement: inadequate business rate plans dishearten industry
The overwhelming consensus on chancellor Philip Hammond’s first - and apparently last - Autumn Statement was one of frustration.
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ProfessionalLooking at loyalty in a whole new way
Does your heart sink when one of your employees comes sheepishly into the office and announces that they have been offered a new job and will be off once they have worked their notice?
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ProfessionalThe government’s preferred route for HS2 leaves questions unanswered
Following hot on the heels of the government’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow, last week the Department for Transport confirmed its preferred route for the HS2 line north of Birmingham.
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ProfessionalQ&A: London Festival of Architecture boss sets out new vision
It’s all change at the London Festival of Architecture (LFA). For the first time since the financial crisis, the annual celebration of the capital’s built environment, which takes place in June, has a full-time executive director in the form of Tamsie Thomson.
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ProfessionalWhat could the Uber case mean for property?
The recent decision to cement the legal status of Uber’s so-called self-employed drivers as employees may also be relevant to the property and construction industries, which often engage workers on a self-employed or agency basis.
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ProfessionalQ&A: Martyn Evans on building bridges between architects and developers
Later this month, the first event to be organised by a new body formed to facilitate greater understanding between architects and developers will take place in central London.
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ProfessionalQ&A: Sean Tompkins on how the industry can do more to boost the role of women
Sean Tompkins, the chief executive of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, recently made a pledge to avoid speaking at property events which do not also include women among the panellists, whenever possible.
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ProfessionalReady, steady... pause: what is holding back the government’s starter homes scheme?
The starter homes programme was meant to be the flagship housing policy of the Conservative government.
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ProfessionalHow troubled Brent Cross was revived by a happy public-private partnership
The phrase ‘development hell’ was coined in the film industry, but is easily transferrable to property - certainly, the parties involved in the redevelopment of Hammerson’s Brent Cross Shopping Centre have had numerous opportunities over the last 15 years to think that some malign force was acting against them.
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ProfessionalHow can the design of a prison help foster inmate rehabilitation?
With the fallout from the Brexit vote in general, and the defenestration of Michael Gove in particular, there was much speculation that the former justice secretary’s Prison and Courts Reform Bill would fall by the wayside.
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ProfessionalWe should all know who is responsible for our fire safety
This month marks exactly 10 years since new fire safety rules for property owners came into effect in England and Wales.
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ProfessionalSowing the seeds of sustainable property management
Much of the debate surrounding property and sustainability focuses on building design. But design, while certainly important, only gets you so far.
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ProfessionalLaying the foundations for tomorrow's construction careers
Of the myriad challenges facing the construction industry at the moment, the skills shortage and the ageing workforce are arguably the biggest.
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ProfessionalNew chairman of Bristol’s Architecture Centre urges greater inclusivity in city-making debate
Bristol may have lost architect George Ferguson as its mayor earlier this year, but the built environment continues to be well represented in the city in the form of the Architecture Centre.
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ProfessionalGreen gauge: running the rule over real estate sustainability
Estimates vary, but we can be pretty sure that the built environment is responsible for generating around 40% to 50% of carbon emissions globally.
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ProfessionalQ&A: Nick Talbot on the importance of the International Valuation Standards Council
The qualifications required to become a valuations professional in the UK are rigorous - and with good reason.
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ProfessionalRESI: can Sadiq Khan’s team take the controversy out of the viability process?
In London’s housing debate there is perhaps one issue more than any other that seems to raise the hackles of affordability campaigners and councillors alike: developers’ viability assessments.
