Latest News

Discontinuance orders

In January 2022 we reported on a sorry tale where a Discontinuance Order made in the 1970s had remained undetected for decades only to have re-emerged when the current owner wished...

Continue Reading...


Landscape recovery

The Government has just announced the second round of funding for its landscape recovery programme. Given the scale of the scheme, the first round funding has tended to go to projects...

Continue Reading...


Nature markets

“DEFRA released the Nature Market Framework earlier this year. This document outlines how private investment in nature recovery can be combined with funding for ecosystem services. We talked about this concept...

Continue Reading...


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...

Continue Reading...


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...

Continue Reading...


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...

Continue Reading...


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...

Continue Reading...


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...

Continue Reading...