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Energy shock

Posted on 17 October 2025 by David Cowan

In previous posts, I have noted how energy efficiency is a particular problem in parts of the private rented sector in Wales, the WG is committed to produce energy efficient […]

Renters’ Rights Bill: What’s coming, and what’s not (and why?)

Posted on 17 October 2025 by David Cowan

As the Renters' Rights Bill makes its (slower than expected) progress through the Westminster Parliament, it is important that we give consideration to what parts will apply to Wales, and […]

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 […]

Housing asylum-seekers

Posted on 3 October 2025 by David Cowan

There is so much loathesome, hateful stuff around at the moment that it is difficult to know where to start sometimes, and I cannot pretend that the narratives in play […]

2nd Homes … and how not to make an Art 4 decision

Posted on 3 October 2025 by David Cowan

In R(Enlli Angharad Williams) v Cyngor Gwynedd EWHC 2395 (Admin), Eyre J struck down Cyngor Gwynedd's Article 4 direction, dated 16th July 2024, requiring planning permission to be obtained for […]

Manifestos and MEES

Posted on 3 October 2025 by David Cowan

There has been quite a lot of peripheral but really important stuff going on this week, including one bit that I missed previously.  So, there are three posts this week, […]

Housing Law: An academic “take” (with consequences)

Posted on 26 September 2025 by David Cowan

I have been writing about housing law for too long to remember.  It's my passion.  But, recently, in working with a range of different colleagues, and in my more textbooky […]

A quick plug …

Posted on 19 September 2025 by David Cowan

I thought I would do a quick plug for Shelter Cymru's People and Homes Conference 2025 on 22nd October in Cardiff.  I have no financial or other interest in it, and […]

The temporary accommodation problem

Posted on 19 September 2025 by David Cowan

As we head inexorably down into the election spiral, with all its anxieties, one of the conclusions to which I have been drawn over the years is that housing issues/problems/crises […]

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