Podcast
Security Charging Podcast Episode 6: Pre-charging and rolling charging: which approach is best for you?
12/03/24
Listen on demand to episode 6 of Capsticks' Security Charging podcast series in which our expert legal team give Registered Providers practical guidance on the charging process.
Podcast
Security Charging Podcast Episode 5: The Value of Collaboration (with guest speaker Yogeta Partridge)
29/02/24
Listen on demand to episode 5 of Capsticks' Security Charging podcast series in which our expert legal team give Registered Providers practical guidance on the charging process.
Insight
Housing Forward View 2024
21/02/24
In this Housing Forward View our experts consider the current landscape of pressing issues in the housing sector and make predictions how the environment may be shifting in the future:
Insight
Housing development
20/02/24
Key construction issues to consider in 2024 are: Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill 2023-24, Building Safety Act, higher risk buildings and second staircases
Podcast
Security charging podcast episode 4: practical guidance for registered providers
15/02/24
Listen on demand to episode 4 of Capsticks' Security Charging podcast series in which our expert legal team give Registered Providers practical guidance on the charging process.
Insight
A new consumer standard – competence and conduct
08/02/24
As part of the Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 the government proposed two new consumer standards.
Insight
The High Court decision on R (Dennis) v LB Southwark [2024] EWHC 57
24/01/24
The case of R (Dennis) v LB Southwark [2024] EWHC (Admin) (Dennis) is the first High Court case which grapples with the practical implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Hillside Parks Ltd v Snowdonia National Parks Authority (Hillside).
Insight
Implementing the Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 – obligation to provide information to your tenants
23/01/24
The new Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 included a number of specific measures aimed at improving the safety and quality of social housing and generally improving the lives and voice of tenants who live in social housing.
Insight
The government has published an updated National Planning Policy Framework
03/01/24
In this insight we summarise some key takeaways from the NPPF update and what this means for housing development.
Insight
Changes to the Capital Funding Guide
22/12/23
A series of changes have been made to the Capital Funding Guide. These changes improve the options available for selling or subletting homes in Shared Ownership with a focus on those affected by building safety issues for RPs.
Insight
The government opens consultation on Statutory Guidance under section 215 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008
30/11/23
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has opened a consultation on how it proposes to use it intervention and enforcement powers in the future.
Insight
Breaches of Planning Control: immunity periods
21/11/23
This insight focuses on the changes that will be brought about by Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023 in respect of amending the time periods contained in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for councils to enforce breaches of planning control.