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    Legal Update | RTB receipts drive resurgence in council housing

    Local authorities are increasingly using right to buy receipts to purchase rather than build council hous ...

    Local authorities are increasingly using right to buy receipts to purchase rather than build council housing, says Charlotte Cook, Partner in the Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood. Local auth ...

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    Legal Update | Sustainable finance

    Winckworth Sherwood’s Louise Forrest, James Duncan and Lucy Grimwood discuss the road to sustainable fina ...

    Winckworth Sherwood’s Louise Forrest, James Duncan and Lucy Grimwood discuss the road to sustainable finance for RPs. Greening Finance: a Roadmap to Sustainable Investing, the UK Government’s policy p ...

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    Legal Update | Right to Regenerate

    Winckworth Sherwood’s Sarah Waite discusses the Government’s new proposals to make it easier for the publ ...

    Winckworth Sherwood’s Sarah Waite discusses the Government’s new proposals to make it easier for the public to buy and regenerate vacant land in England to transform into homes, businesses and communi ...

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    Legal Update | Modern Methods of Construction

    Ruby Giblin, Partner in the Housing Finance and Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood, puts forward ...

    Ruby Giblin, Partner in the Housing Finance and Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood, puts forward seven reasons why Modern Methods of Construction is coming to you in 2021. As we move into 2021 ...

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    Legal Update | Housing and social care

    Social housing providers are well-placed to take a lead in delivering and transforming social care. Winck ...

    Social housing providers are well-placed to take a lead in delivering and transforming social care. Winckworth Sherwood’s Charlotte Cook explains why. Social care is a political hot potato. Proposals ...

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    Legal Update | Planning applications

    Court of Appeal makes it harder to vary planning permissions says Karen Cooksley and Colette McCormack at ...

    Court of Appeal makes it harder to vary planning permissions says Karen Cooksley and Colette McCormack at Winckworth Sherwood. Since the introduction of environmental impact assessments in 1999 it has ...

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    Legal update | Reach for the skies

    Change is clearly required if we are going to solve the ongoing housing crisis in the UK, and embracing a ...

    Change is clearly required if we are going to solve the ongoing housing crisis in the UK, and embracing alternative methods of development, such as airspace development, will be a major step, says Win ...

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    Legal Update | Home Building Fund

    Winckworth Sherwood’s Patricia Umunna considers the Home Building Fund for new development. In the 2017 b ...

    Winckworth Sherwood’s Patricia Umunna considers the Home Building Fund for new development. In the 2017 budget Philip Hammond increased the funding available for the Home Building Fund from £3bn to £4 ...

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    Legal Update | Investing in modular construction

    Ruby Giblin, Partner in the Housing Finance team at law firm Winckworth Sherwood, says it’s time for loca ...

    Ruby Giblin, Partner in the Housing Finance team at law firm Winckworth Sherwood, says it’s time for local authorities to reap modular construction benefits. Local government finally freed from caps o ...

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    Legal Update | Rent reforms

    The Government has announced plans to consult upon significantly changing the law currently governing res ...

    The Government has announced plans to consult upon significantly changing the law currently governing residential tenancies in England. The headline reform is the proposal to remove a landlord’s abili ...

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