With a Cardiff Colleague, Professor Basham, I have been editing a collection of papers for publication in the Journal of Law and Society, under the rubric: "Dysfunctional Governance: Crisis, Scandal, […]
"It's entirely clear, isn't it, that we are in a housing crisis—thousands of people waiting for social housing; families, children and young people living in temporary accommodation or facing homelessness". […]
Just a short note to highlight the important Senedd Local Government and Housing follow-up inquiry in to social housing supply. On 21st January 2026, there were hearings in which, in […]
It is probably necessary to move on after Coastal, but if you will forgive me one last pop at a reflection on it, this is it (after which I will try […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
There is a report in The Guardian that Cardiff Council have been sending letters to families of those who have been charged over alleged involvement in the Ely Riots. The […]