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Tree health pilot scheme 2023

The tree health pilot scheme has reopened in 2023 with the aim of slowing the spread of pests and diseases affecting trees as well as building the resilience of trees across...

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Posted May 16, 2023
In Snippets

Discrimination in arbitration

The Law Commission is currently consulting on reforms to the Arbitration Act 1996. The first consultation took place between September and December 2022 and, on the back of the responses to...

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Posted May 11, 2023
In Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution

Delinked payments

Defra has updated its guidance on the delinked payments that will replace the current Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) with effect from 2024. The guidance re-confirms that the 2023 BPS claim year...

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Posted May 4, 2023
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Dissemination of information

As we have previously noted, it is always a pleasure to see information that we have put into the public domain picked up and quoted by other professionals. We were therefore...

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Posted April 27, 2023
In Snippets

Disguised notices to quit

Hard on the heels of the publication of the Rock Review, which we reported on here, comes an example of the type of behaviour from a landlord’s representative that Baroness Rock...

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Posted April 26, 2023
In Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution

End of 4-year rule confirmed

Followers of our articles will be aware that we have been closely observing the passage of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill through Parliament and that we have been involved in...

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Posted April 25, 2023
In Chartered surveyors and land agents

Short term holiday lets

After much controversy in tourism hotspots around dwellings being taken out of the permanent housing market for use as short term holiday lets, the Government has launched two major consultations. The...

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Posted April 13, 2023
In Planning Consultancy

Biodiversity net gain and stacking

“Further to our April 2023 article we are taking a closer look at what Defra has published to-date on the topic of stacking”, says Henry Buckpitt of Acorn Rural Property Consultants....

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Posted April 4, 2023
In Ecology and Biodiversity