Residential Property

• Luxury Flats – Leaseholders’ Right to Manage Hopes Stymied

  • Posted29 May 2014

  In a case which vividly illustrates the difficulties faced by leaseholders wishing to take over management of their homes, residents of a block of luxury riverside apartments hit a fatal...

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• Council’s Neglect of Trees Costs It Dear

  • Posted14 May 2014

  The Court of Appeal recently ruled that when a council neglected to reduce the crowns of trees in a park for several years, thus allowing the roots to grow, it...

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• Court Boosts Planning Objectors’ Rights

  • Posted30 April 2014

  A local authority has been dragged over the coals by a High Court judge for its ‘perverse’ failure to heed furious neighbours’ complaints about a poorly constructed home that overlooks...

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• Social Housing Fraud Changes

  • Posted14 April 2014

  The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 makes the unauthorised subletting of a council property a criminal offence. The prosecution can be brought by the council concerned. ...

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• Registering Land as a Village Green

  • Posted27 March 2014

  The law offers a way of protecting land that is used as a local amenity in order to ensure that it can be enjoyed for generations to come. Where land...

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• Buying a Self-Build Home – Beware of Insurance Snags

  • Posted13 March 2014

  A couple who bought a newly-built home for more than £770,000 – only to discover that the construction guarantee that came with it was not worth the paper it was...

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