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David Cowan

David Cowan

The site provides information, updates and discussion on Welsh housing and homelessness law. It is all free, but it is just our opinions, and NOT legal advice. Please do not ask for advice on individual matters.

Latest posts

Compensation for no-fault eviction

Posted on 16 May 2025 by David Cowan

I blogged about the Senedd’s Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector (“PRS”) late last year.  One of the recommendations in that report was that The Welsh […]

Welsh Housing Survey

Posted on 16 May 2025 by David Cowan

Approaches to policy-making can be driven from a range of different directions.  We can see that from the Trump administration and the UK response to the issues raised by Reform's […]

Community led housing

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Although I'm mildly sceptical about community led housing, there is a really interesting blog post by Claire White on the Cwmpas blog that is well worth reading about trying to […]

RICS Practice Alert: Housing Disrepair Claims

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

If you are involved in civil litigation, there is no better updating blog than Gordon Exall's Civil Litigation Brief (imho), and that blog alerted me to the fact that the […]

Legislation klaxon

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Three new housing Bills were announced for this final year of the current administration by Julie James, Counsel General, on 29th April: homelessness; social housing allocation; and building safety.  The […]

Coastal 2 – Hearing dates

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Forgive the extra break in the blog from last week (on vacation).  The big news is that the hearing dates in what this blog has called Coastal 2 (the fallout […]

Hoarders

Posted on 25 April 2025 by David Cowan

Experience suggests that there can be few harder, more serious issues raised than those raised by hoarders.  Hoarding is a recognised psychological condition, commonly found alongside other psychological conditions.  For […]

Building safety

Posted on 11 April 2025 by David Cowan

I cannot claim any expertise on building safety (I recommend Susan Bright's blog for that purpose), but there has been a flurry of activity in Wales this week, following the […]

Plaid Cymru and Housing Policy

Posted on 4 April 2025 by David Cowan

Although strictly non-partisan, I have been trawling the parties' housing policies and statements.  In this post, I want to draw attention to a couple of documents published by Plaid Cymru's […]

The temporary accommodation crisis

Posted on 27 March 2025 by David Cowan

I have been co-organising a workshop about crises as dysfunctions of government (taking place at Cardiff Law School building), at which there are four papers addressing the housing crisis in […]