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Disrepair

Oh, Trivallis …

Posted on 7 November 2025 by David Cowan

The PSOW has issued two public interest reports on Trivallis which have found broader systemic issues in their record keeping and repairs service, failure to follow their policies, breach of […]

A smorgasbord

Posted on 24 October 2025 by David Cowan

There is lots of interesting stuff going on at the moment, and it is, of course, an important political moment.  This post is a bit of a smorgasbord of relevant […]

Coastal 2: Some observations

Posted on 10 October 2025 by David Cowan

In last week's post on what I have called Coastal 2 (inaccurately, perhaps, as Coastal has since changed its name to Beacon Cymru Group Ltd), I set out the headline […]

Klaxon – Coastal 2: The outcome

Posted on 3 October 2025 by David Cowan

Coastal 2 has been published - Beacon Cymru Group Ltd v Mitchell EWHC 2477 (CH). This is a critical moment for Welsh housing law and policy and so this emergency […]

An assortment: Coastal; sharp practice; breathing space moratoria

Posted on 4 July 2025 by David Cowan

This is going to be very much an assortment of different things which have been happening in the background (partly because I have just completed the Legal Action owner-occupier update […]

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 […]