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% […]
Back in September 2024, Jayne Bryan (the Cabinet Secretary for Housing) laid a Legislative Consent Memorandum before the Senedd seeking consent for certain provisions of the Westminster government's Renters' Rights […]
I've been listening to Dan Hewitt's podcast, The Trapped, this week. It's a pretty depressing listen and, in a way, it tells us nothing we don't already know. What is […]
The Senedd's Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector ("PRS"), which was published in October 2024, makes for quite depressing reading. The report reminded me about […]
The Welsh Parliament's Local Government and Housing Committee have issued their long-awaited report on Social Housing Supply. The WG have committed to delivering 20,000 low carbon social homes from 2021-26 and […]
Just a quick reminder to let me know what's going on out there in housing law and policy in Wales. I don't have a handle on everything, and it would […]
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 […]
Following on from the post on the Coastal Housing case (about the need for service of electrical condition reports without which rent is not required to be paid), it is […]
This is the first substantive post on this blog, and it's a cracker which will have reverberating implications for housing law and policy in Wales: Coastal Housing Group Ltd v […]
There is no doubt that housing law and housing policy in Wales are different from the rest of the UK. That's not just because the legislation affecting housing is now […]