Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Nature Recovery
17 April 2025
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28 March 2025
On 11 March 2025, the Government introduced the Planning and Infrastructure Bill into Parliament with a promise to speed up planning decisions and ‘get Britain building’. Sharpe Pritchard’s Planning and Parliamentary team have been analysing the likely implications of the Bill in recent weeks. In the latest article of this series, we focus on Spatial…
Read more12 March 2025
2025 will be a year of significant change for the social housing sector. Some changes are welcome: new funding for registered providers promised in the October budget by way of rent increase powers, and cash injections for new affordable homes offer a welcome boost at a time of financial pressure. Registered providers will also, however,…
Read more3 March 2025
Sharpe Pritchard recently acted for a Local Authority landlord in a case where they successfully ‘set off’ the tenant’s outstanding rent arrears against the tenant’s legal costs following settlement of a disrepair claim at Pre-Action Protocol stage. Case background The tenant (T) brought a disrepair claim against the London Borough of Newham (LBN) which was…
Read more25 November 2024
Labour’s key pledge in the lead-up to Rishi Sunak’s snap election announcement was the construction of 1.5 million houses across Britain, and the new Government has been consistent in its messaging in the weeks and months that have followed. In the King’s Speech, Labour promised to “get Britain building” and on 20 November, Deputy Prime…
Read more9 July 2024
Sharpe Pritchard is delighted to announce our appointment to the new legal services framework for the Communities and Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) which commences July 2024 and runs for the next four years. CHIC is a member owned consortium of over 200 public sector bodies, comprised principally of Registered Providers and Local Authorities which offers its…
Read more20 March 2023
We are delighted to announce that Richard Sharpe has joined Sharpe Pritchard to head up our Social Housing team. Since qualifying in 2003, Richard has worked exclusively in social housing and is very highly regarded within the sector. He advises registered providers on all matters relating to both property development work and the charging aspects…
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