Residential Property

• 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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• Allowing Use of Land May Create Irrevocable Rights

  • Posted5 March 2014

  When land has been used by someone who has no legal entitlement to use it for 20 years without interruption, an ‘easement’ can arise under the Prescription Act 1832. In...

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