Professional Comment and Legal Views – Page 11
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ProfessionalWhat benefits can flexible estate strategies offer organisations?
It is clear from conversations with our occupier clients that the outlook remains uncertain for workplaces and, as an industry, we are still figuring out what the future of the office looks like in detail.
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ProfessionalInvesting in psychological health
As a strategic consultant in ESG to several leading property developers and contractors, I think it is increasingly apparent from the industry’s stark mental-health situation that we need to focus and offer more support in this area.
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ProfessionalDriving sustainability with data
Amid the climate emergency, it is clear the industry needs to collaborate to deliver the scale of change required to safeguard the planet – and data plays a key role in understanding and driving sustainability performance.
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ProfessionalHow can employers counter the UK’s ‘Great Resignation’?
Organisations must provide spaces that embody what they stand for to recruit and retain the best talent.
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ProfessionalBuilding the future of healthcare
We are all familiar with how changing patterns of living and working due to Covid have affected high streets and how much strain the pandemic has put on the NHS. At ADP Architecture, we have been investigating a holistic response – one that combines better healthcare provision with a new ...
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ProfessionalSettling post-Covid rent arrears
Although the government put emergency measures in place to curtail creditors amid the pandemic, these are being phased out. On 9 November 2021, the government published a new code of practice for commercial property relationships.
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ProfessionalWhat impact will the RICS report have on valuations in practice?
The RICS valuation report was, few would disagree, a necessary move to restore confidence in the profession, and an intervention that many would argue has been overdue for quite some time.
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ProfessionalCan a landlord demand a tenant pay turnover rent at lease renewal?
One of the conundrums facing landlords and tenants is how rent should be assessed when a tenant renews its lease under the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
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ProfessionalCaution advised on rent disputes
The pandemic restrictions imposed on landlords preventing lease forfeiture and rent arrears recovery claims against tenants are shortly coming to an end.
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ProfessionalEV charge point deadline looms
Last November, the government announced the mandatory installation of electric vehicle (EV) charge points for new buildings in England. With four months to go until these regulations come into force, developers and other stakeholders need to ensure they are up to speed on the requirements.
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ProfessionalHigh streets need organisation
Twelve levelling-up missions; King’s Cross-style regeneration of city centres; 53 town centre deals – the UK government appears to be sparing no effort to aid the regeneration of towns, city centres and high streets.
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ProfessionalWhy repurpose heritage assets?
For many developers, historic assets are offputting and for understandable reasons. After all, they often come with strict rules about what can be done to them – sometimes very little indeed.
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ProfessionalBusiness leaders must unlock benefits of new ways to work
Covid has demystified the world of remote working, boosting output, creativity and talent retention.
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ProfessionalWho has responsibility for the management of wider estates?
The Supreme Court in FirstPort Property Services v Settlers Court RTM Co provides welcome clarity over the scope of right-to-manage (RTM) legislation. An RTM company, which is run by leaseholders, manages a block of flats where the right has been exercised pursuant to the provisions of the Commonhold and Leasehold ...
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ProfessionalHow can predictive analytics help to simplify planning and data?
The relationship between data and planning is complicated. Big data has become unwieldy as new systems and variables become more complex. With sustainability at the core of new infrastructure and construction projects, town and urban planning has become too holistic for it to meet the scale of delivery.
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ProfessionalAnticipating 2022’s Planning Bill
Greater flexibility in planning has been a lifeline for many projects during the pandemic.
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ProfessionalProperty’s metaverse revolution
A reimagined social future or ambitious utopia doomed for failure? The camp may be split, but the metaverse already exists; albeit not the polished dream that Mark Zuckerberg conjured in December 2021 but very real, virtual worlds with new possibilities to be considered.
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ProfessionalHow to design offices to suit flexible and hybrid working
The World Bank’s new London office demonstrates the value of flexible and socially distanced workspaces.
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ProfessionalThe buzz of city life is returning
City living has had a tough time throughout the pandemic. Remote working and the closure of hospitality venues eroded the allure of the city, and the nature of housing demand changed.
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ProfessionalFirst Homes has its challenges
First Homes has been lined up as the replacement to the Help to Buy scheme, but unlike Help to Buy, First Homes will count towards a developer’s affordable housing provision as part of a planning application.
