Gain a comprehensive understanding of how regulations and statutory requirements related to highways, streets, and public rights of way affect planning processes. Tailored for legal professionals, this guidance provides essential insights to navigate challenges, ensure compliance, and offer effective client advice. Efficiently manage disputes and applications within the planning framework, equipped with the crucial tools and expertise needed to protect interests and maintain public access and land use integrity.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published draft guidance on all three mandatory gateways under the new local...
Planning analysis: In Thomas Connors v Bromley LBC, the High Court dismissed a judicial review challenge to a local planning authority (LPA)’s...
Planning analysis: The draft Nature Restoration Levy Regulations 2026 were laid before Parliament on 18 June 2026. They provide the procedural and...
The Environmental Delivery Plans (Appropriate Prioritisation) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/655 were made on 16 June 2026, laid before Parliament on 18...
Statutory wayleaves and rights of accessUtilitiesThe water, gas, electricity, communications and energy industries enjoy statutory rights of access...
Planning conditions—the six testsPowers to impose planning conditionsThe general powers for local planning authorities (LPAs) to impose conditions on...
What rights of access are there over an unadopted road, the owner of which is unknown?Normally, if there is privately owned land in between a property...
What is a section 111 agreement?Section 111 agreements are agreements entered into with a local authority under section 111 of the Local Government...
Where a roadway is adopted by the local highways authority, can it also form part of an individual property owner's registered title? What is the effect if a way is both adopted but also shown as within a registered title to a residential property?Where a roadway is adopted by the local highways
What rights of access are there over an unadopted road, the owner of which is unknown?Normally, if there is privately owned land in between a property and the highway, the person requiring access over that land will be granted rights of access over it by the owner of that land. If the ownership over
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
If a beneficiary signs a deed of disclaimer of their share of an estate and the estate pays their legal fees, will that count as a PET against their estate?A disclaimer is the refusal of a gift prior to acceptance. The refusal of the gift must take place before the beneficiary accepts any benefit
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