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09 December 2022

Real Estate Development Yule Blog - 8 jolly judgments?

04 September 2018

Affordable Housing Back to Basics: What do the new NPPF and Draft London Plan modifications mean for affordable housing?

This blog post explores how the meaning of affordable housing has evolved following the publication of the revised National Planning Policy Framework …

07 March 2018

Closing the "viability loophole"? A return for the developer must be taken into account when setting local plans

The Government is recommending that viability is assessed in detail by the local authority at the stage of setting its development plan and allocating …

06 April 2016

Review of unviable affordable housing obligations to cease on 30 April 2016

Author: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, London Developers with planning permission for residential development can currently apply to …

01 March 2016

How to solve a housing crisis: commercial viability, land value and affordable housing

Author: Martyn Jarvis, Associate, Planning, Real Estate, London The UK is facing a housing crisis, most pronounced in London, and this is set to be a …

25 January 2016

What to look forward to in 2016: Planning changes on the horizon

Herbert Smith Freehills' real estate development team are monitoring a number of areas of law likely to change during 2016.  Here is a summary …

16 October 2015

Vacant Building Credit - abolished

In November 2014, the Government published a Ministerial Statement which outlined a policy known as 'vacant building credit' whereby buildings which were …

03 February 2015

Section 106 monitoring payments not compliant with CIL regulations

A High Court Judge has ruled that the monitoring fees routinely added by local planning authorities to section 106 costs will not generally meet the test …