All Professional articles – Page 6
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ProfessionalTake care with coastal schemes
Developing UK coastal areas is part of the levelling-up and green agendas, with opportunities in renewable energy, aquaculture, leisure and residential. However, boundaries, ownerships and foreshore rights are not always clear. Errors can create expensive and time-intensive litigation.
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ProfessionalDelivering low embodied carbon
Methods of measuring embodied carbon vary and can be confusing. Whole-life-carbon optioneering should form an integral part of the strategic design decision-making process.
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ProfessionalQ&A: Five minutes with Sammie Steele, managing director of placemaking and regeneration at Places for People
Sammie Steele, managing director of placemaking and regeneration at Places for People, on how she got started in property, her top book and album recommendations and her number-one travel destination.
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ProfessionalIdentifying practical problems is vital in architectural design
Architects have a duty of care towards their clients to put commercial practicalities ahead of design niceties.
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ProfessionalRecognising risks of forfeiture
Local authorities have long played a key role in delivering regeneration projects across the UK. This activity has gone through stages. At points over the last 10 years, one in five shopping centres changing hands were acquired by local authorities (LAs), often enabling new commercial development.
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ProfessionalQ&A: Five minutes with Sue Winterbourne, corporate success director at property services firm Leaders Romans Group (LRG)
Sue Winterbourne, corporate success director at property services firm Leaders Romans Group (LRG), on how she got started in property, her best and worst purchases and her number-one travel destination.
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ProfessionalPrepare for negligence claims
The Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections etc) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 were passed on 20 July – almost identically named to regulations passed in February 2023 but with an added ‘etc’.
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ProfessionalLandlords and EV charging point operators need mutually fair leases
Electric vehicle (EV) charging points are appearing in retail parks, hospital car parks and all kinds of commercial premises across the country to help facilitate the transition to electric motoring, although some say the installation growth still needs to be faster.
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ProfessionalPrepare for economic crime laws
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, which is making its way through Parliament, is the latest in a range of measures by the government to clamp down on economic crime.
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Professional‘Greening’ of offices and cities is important for sustainability
Green walls, urban forests and biophilic features can be vital in enhancing workplace health and wellbeing.
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ProfessionalAppeal court clarifies mast rights
The Court of Appeal has overturned the decision of the Upper Tribunal in the case of Vodafone v Gencomp (No. 7) and AP Wireless II (UK).
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ProfessionalQ&A: Five minutes with Alan Ryall, joint managing director at advisory firm Watling Real Estate
Alan Ryall, joint managing director at advisory firm Watling Real Estate, on how he got started in property, his top book and podcast picks, how he’d spend one million pounds and his number-one travel destination.
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ProfessionalTwo-staircase rule rocks industry
In a pivotal moment for the construction and development industry, mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced in February a regulation that is set to redefine the capital’s skyline: all new residential buildings over 30m must now include a second staircase.
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ProfessionalWhat can we learn from recent court judgments on demolition?
The law on demolishing a building is not as straightforward as it might seem. After a flurry of court cases on demolition, it is a good time to look at what we can learn from recent judgments and recap how to flatten a site without being bulldozed by the law. ...
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ProfessionalQ&A: Five minutes with Natasha Guerra, chief executive of co-working and flexible workspace manager Runway East
Natasha Guerra, chief executive of co-working and flexible workspace manager Runway East, on how she got started in property, her favourite book and album picks, and the superpower she wishes she had.
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ProfessionalPlanning certainty trumps beauty
The importance of beauty in planning came to the fore in April, when housing secretary Michael Gove called in and subsequently refused planning permission for a 165-home development by Berkeley Homes in Cranbrook, Kent.
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ProfessionalCollaboration key to life sciences
As an architect, my focus is on collaboration, flexibility and the creation of healthy spaces that will attract talent and contribute positively to the environment.
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ProfessionalQ&A: Five minutes with Kathryn Cooling, associate in the property disputes team at RWK Goodman
Kathryn Cooling, associate in the property disputes team at RWK Goodman, on how she got started in property, her favourite film and book picks, her best and worst purchases and the figure she’d like to meet.
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ProfessionalESG in real estate: reliable data and standardised frameworks critical to accurate reporting and longer-term success
It is increasingly acknowledged that for progress to be made in ESG practices, the real estate sector must take it seriously. With real estate thought to be responsible for around 40% of global emissions and energy consumption, sustainability within the sector is key to the UK meeting its ESG targets.
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ProfessionalHomes England put under the microscope amid new review
Wide-reaching review of the body’s operations will assess whether it is meeting targets set by government.
