Permitted development rights (PDRs) are a list of alterations that are acceptable to a domestic or commercial property without the need to apply for planning permission. From the 5th March 2024, legislation governing the PDRs will change. This will affect the change of use from Class E to Residential (Class C3) use.
Thomas v. Turner, a recent Court of Appeal decision, further defined whether or not a legal notice containing errors remains valid.
The High Street Rental Auctions process will allow a local authority to find people who would be willing to take a tenancy of the vacant property, ascertain the rent for the tenancy and compel a property owner to enter into the tenancy.
Recently, the UK Government published the consultation proposal, ‘Permitted development rights: supporting temporary recreational campsite, renewable energy, and film-making consultation.’
The Government plans to implement its Responsible Actors Scheme (RAS) under the Building Safety Act and has now published draft secondary legislation. The RAS will restrict certain residential property developers from developing properties in England if they do not sign a developer remediation contract with the Government.
The requirement to have a minimum EPC rating of E will be expanding to cover all existing tenancies. Read our blog post to find out more.
The Supreme Court recognised a landlord’s need for certainty and the ability to recover the cost and expenses that it has incurred without significant delay or dispute. Read our blog post to find out more.
If you are purchasing or renting a commercial property which was constructed or refurbished before the year 2000, it is pivotal to carry out full checks for the presence of asbestos. Read our blog post to find out more.
Section 4 of the Land Registration Act 2002 explains the requirements of registration. This states that a leasehold estate in land for a term which, at the time of the transfer, grant or creation, has more than 7 years to run, is subject to compulsory registration. Section 6 of the Act then deals with the duty to apply for registration of title.
Since 2018 it has been unlawful for a landlord to grant a new tenancy of commercial property with an EPC rating lower than E. The property must hold an EPC rating of band ‘E’ or better prior to any new leases or renewals being granted.
It’s been another excellent year for Ramsdens in The Legal 500 UK 2023 rankings.
The Government has sought for many years to create a public register to keep record of all overseas individuals who own UK Property.
It is very common for tenants of commercial leases to either want to, or perhaps need to, ‘get out’ of the lease. A common way of doing this is to ‘assign’ the lease to a new tenant (this may be the only option if there are no break options in the lease and the Landlord is unwilling to agree to a surrender). Kirsty Jackson, Head of our Commercial Property team, takes a look at whether a landlord has to consent when a tenant wishes to assign and what conditions they may be able to impose, but first, what does assigning a lease mean?
Cafes, restaurants, pubs, snack bars and the like will benefit from plans to make the temporary COVID-related pavement licence scheme for ‘removable pavement furniture’ permanent, but face increased licence fees from 30 September 2022.
High street and other commercial landlords are considering the potential impact on their businesses of government plans to allow local authorities to force commercial landlords to rent out their empty properties, announced in the recent Queen’s Speech.
Ramsdens Solicitors LLP has recently announced its latest round of promotions for 2022. The promotions took effect from the 3 May and comprises of staff members from across its Private Client and Commercial services.
The Ramsdens Commercial Property team have had a recent hat-trick of appointments, as they continue to bolster their presence in Leeds.
Landlords and tenants of commercial property in England and Wales still trying to agree how to deal with arrears of rent built up because of COVID-19 will welcome an updated Code of Practice ‘Guidance: Commercial rent code of practice following the COVID-19 pandemic’ to help them negotiate a resolution.
The remaining temporary insolvency measures imposed by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 expire today (31 March 2022).
Whether you have a property portfolio or just a single residential property signing up to the Land Registry Property Alert service is something you should strongly consider. Property Alert is a free property monitoring service which helps to reduce the risk of property fraud. Once signed up the service will send you email alerts when certain activity occurs on your monitored properties allowing you take action if necessary.
Landlords and tenants of commercial property in England are assessing newly-published details for the proposed new ringfencing and arbitration procedure to apply where tenants owe arrears of rent that built up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stephen Newman and Adam Cockroft from Ramsdens’ Company and Commercial team, with support from Chris Annable (commercial property) and Emily Walker (employment), have advised the Sellers in relation to Expect Distribution’s recent management buyout.
The Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954) provides certain safeguards for commercial Tenants one of these being the ‘security of tenure’ when a lease comes to an end.
The Legal 500’s results for 2022 have been announced and we’re extremely proud to have ranked in 9 practice areas (Employment, Corporate & Commercial, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Property, Family, Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate, Contentious Probate, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury) up one more than last year.
Landlords of commercial property in England face further extensions to temporary laws that protect their commercial tenants from specified legal actions against them to recover rent arrears – and a new and unexpected ringfencing and arbitration procedure.
Developers, property owners and funders will welcome changes to planning laws that permit developments in England altering use of property from commercial business and service (Class E) to residential (Class C3), under a new Class MA (Mercantile to Abode), provided certain conditions are met.
Businesses who lease premises but whose workforce may not all return to work when COVID-19 restrictions are eased are considering whether to look for smaller premises, or to reduce the space they rent – but need to know how they can get out of their existing lease, or vary it, to achieve what they want.
The government announced on 10th March 2021 that it would again extend the temporary ban on forfeiture (termination of a lease) for non-payment of rent from 31st March 2021 until 30th June 2021.
Ramsdens Corporate team, led by Partner Richard Dean with support from Emma Spragg, Gareth Dando in our Employment team and Simon Mills, in our Commercial Property, advised David and Adam Mosley on Huddersfield based Hartford Holdings’ acquisition of Traymate Products Limited, for an undisclosed sum as part of its ongoing expansion.
The pandemic caused by Covid-19 and the resulting restrictions has touched all of us personally and in the way we conduct business.
