All articles by Mark Shepherd – Page 14
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A hard day’s fight
The use of compulsory purchase orders to regenerate run-down parts of Liverpool has divided local residents.
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Legal weapon
Legal aid may soon be available to tenants in disputes over service charges.
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Local authorities permitted to refuse repeat applications
Government clamps down on developers that try to ‘wear down resistance’
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Liverpool loses track
Liverpool’s tram project is £90m over budget, and the government may withdraw its £170m funding. Could a private sector leasing deal provide the answer? Mark Shepherd reports
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Crossrail and Olympics clear first legislative hurdles
Property owners will have chance to raise objections as bills pass second reading in Commons
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Planning gain supplement plans ‘inevitable’, says RICS
Institution says Prescott’s endorsement of policy means industry should get ready
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Corporate punishment
The proposed corporate manslaughter bill could have profound consequences for property managers and the construction industry.
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A cute deal
British Land’s Broadgate Estates has bought a Staffordshire-based facilities manager.
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Business groups unite to block return of local rates power
FSB and CBI warn that locally set business rates would penalise small businesses
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MP appeals to Commons over Revenue’s tax form scanner
Law Society campaign to review Stamp Duty Land Tax collection system is taken further
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The ratings showdown
As the industry waits for Sir Michael Lyons to address next week’s RICS conference on the future of business rates, Mark Shepherd reports on how the emotive issue is dividing opinion.
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In the blast zone
The schemes that regenerate former industrial land may also be in ‘blast zones’ that are too dangerous to develop.
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MoD replaces Freshfields on £1.8bn outsourcing contract
Simmons & Simmons to advise MoD while Freshfields loses out with bidder Land Securities Trillium
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The trouble with paradise
The transformation of the Paradise Street area in Liverpool is one of the most legally complex assignments to have been undertaken for a development in the UK. This is how it was done.
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Revenue appeals to Lords over college’s VAT exemption
Revenue and Customs claims Reading college exploited tax loophole to reclaim £60,000 a year
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A traditional modernist
Edward Nally has two treasured paintings hanging in his office on Chancery Lane. One is of a floodlit Burnden Park, once the decaying home of his beloved Bolton Wanderers. Next to it is a picture of the club’s modern ground at the Reebok Stadium. ‘I can even point out where ...
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Tribunal blasts agents for ‘inappropriate’ management
But Jermyn Street tenants are still liable for proportion of charges at end of three-year battle