All Legal articles – Page 24
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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.
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ProfessionalA row is brewing over the government’s reforms to business rates appeals
The height of summer is always a good time for the government to sneak out bad news, and this August was no exception.
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ProfessionalGood preparation is essential to tackle the terrorist threat
The recent attack at the Olympia shopping centre in Munich highlights the risk property owners and occupiers face from indiscriminate terrorism targeting the general public.
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ProfessionalCroydonian pride - south London borough experiencing a renaissance
As part of a drive to transform Croydon’s reputation, the council worked with the National Trust to arrange tours of the town this summer - Property Week tagged along.
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ProfessionalIncreased beneficial ownership transparency will benefit property
Any foreign company that already holds or wants to buy UK property will have to join a new public register of beneficial ownership information under a policy announced by former prime minister David Cameron at the Anti-Corruption Summit in London on 12 May this year.
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ProfessionalRelease of RICS office buildings standard is welcome during this period of uncertainty
Six months ago, the RICS published ‘RICS Property Measurement’, which made the adoption of the International Property Measurement Standard (IPMS): Office Buildings mandatory for property measurement professionals.
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ProfessionalWhat regulations do property industry drone users need to be aware of?
When Amazon announced its intention to trial the delivery of online orders by drones in the UK back in 2013, many people thought it was just a PR stunt.
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ProfessionalMotivating the next wave of property professionals
Over the past two years, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) has been developing its UrbanPlan UK initiative, which aims to introduce state school students to the various careers available to them in the built environment.
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ProfessionalAre commercial property owners missing a trick when to comes to capital allowances?
Generally speaking, property owners are pretty good at maximising the value of their investments.
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ProfessionalShared home ownership must be more widely understood
The shared ownership tenure, which allows people to part-own and part-rent their homes from a housing association with just a 5% deposit, has become increasingly popular over the past few decades.
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ProfessionalAre badly designed office environments stifling innovation?
The UK regularly reports the longest working hours in Europe, yet we still have one of the lowest levels of productivity.
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ProfessionalBrexit vote leaves poorer areas with anxious wait over regeneration funding
There were a few raised eyebrows when, the day after last month’s Brexit vote, Cornwall council issued a plea to the UK government to safeguard the regeneration funding that the county receives from the EU.
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ProfessionalLondon’s young people look to shape the capital’s future with My City Too! manifesto
Last week, City Hall in central London played host to the launch of a manifesto for the future development of the capital.
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ProfessionalDesigning communities for healthy living is more important than ever
After the NHS’s Healthy New Towns initiative launched earlier this year, the significance of building communities that foster healthy living is more important than ever.
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ProfessionalWhat impact will Brexit have on building standards and planning?
The property industry has, like most business sectors, had more than a few gripes with the EU over the years.
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ProfessionalChampioning workplace diversity
Ensuring that businesses take diversity in the workplace seriously is increasingly important - not simply as a tick-box exercise, but because diverse workplaces are more innovative, inclusive and successful.
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ProfessionalThe government’s business rate devolution reforms raise more questions than answers
The government’s plans to fully devolve business rate collection and retention to local authorities, announced in autumn last year, contain more holes than a slab of freshly pasteurised Swiss cheese and could cause the most almighty stink if implemented in their current form.
