Development update – commercial and residential property

Peta Dollar brings you the second of her regular webinar series on recent changes in property development for 2024.

This webinar will cover the following:

Construction  

• The Building Safety Act 2022: Law Society support for solicitors on BSA; HSE: Letter to industry: Registration of the Building Control Profession: transitional arrangements; Unsdorfer v Octagon Overseas Ltd (BSA Accountable Person); DLUHC: Call for evidence: Jointly owned properties; HSE Guidance.
• The Income Tax (Construction Industry Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (of great relevance to landlords and tenants)
• The new 2024 JCT contracts
• Vainker v Marbank Construction Ltd (construction defects)
• Second staircase requirement 

Planning

• R (Dennis) vLondon Borough of Southwark
• Consultation on PDRs
• PINS: Appeals decision: APP/F5540/W/23/3326324
• Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2024
• Section 62A designations
• Pratt, R (on the application of) v Exeter City Council
• The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (Commencement No 3 and Transitional and Savings Provision) Regulations 2024
• PINS: Appeal decision: APP/Z3825/W/23/3321658.

 Development

• CMA market study and investigation into housebuilding
• Donovanv Prescott Place Freeholder Ltd (Landlord and Tenant Act 1987)
• Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024
• Restrictive covenant cases: Blackhorse Investments (Borough) Ltd v London Borough of Southwark; Rogers v Dinshaw
• Easement cases: South Tees Development Corporationv PD Teesport Ltd
• Options cases: R (Suffolk Energy Action Solutions SPV Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero; ; Krishnamohan v HMRC
• Conservation covenants
• Taylor v Jones (Rev1) (party walls)
• Goodman v Morris Homes (Midlands) Limited (overage)