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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 […]

Coastal 2 – The arguments

Posted on 8 August 2025 by David Cowan

This blog is about what I have dubbed "Coastal 2".  To recap: in Coastal 1, the High Court found that those RSLs which had failed to provide electrical condition reports […]

Rents

Posted on 1 August 2025 by David Cowan

In his newsletter this week, Will Hayward has made a point of noting that three areas in Wales have the fastest rising rents in GB over the last 12 months […]

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 […]

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 […]

Coastal 2

Posted on 14 February 2025 by David Cowan

The first post on this blog concerned the blockbuster judgment in Coastal Housing Group v Mitchell.  In short, it will be remembered that contract-holders who were not served with electrical condition reports […]

Local housing allowance

Posted on 14 February 2025 by David Cowan

I suspect that there is not much a lawyer could find that interesting about individual subsidy, but this week the coalescence of housing law and policy is the focus of […]

Thinking about the private rented sector – redux

Posted on 17 January 2025 by David Cowan

The Senedd's Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector (about which I blogged on 6th December) was debated in plenary session.  It provides an interesting moment […]

Rents

Posted on 20 December 2024 by David Cowan

This is just a short post to draw attention to the Office for National Statistics most recent bulletin on rents and house prices.  The average rent in GB was 9.1% […]

Legislating for adequacy? The WG White Paper Consultation

Posted on 22 November 2024 by David Cowan

I need to say upfront that I'm not a fan of high level thinking about rights and adequacy.  It's often pretty banal stuff and leads you into over-promising.  The controversy […]