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Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Addendum

Posted on 22 May 2025 by David Cowan

This is a brief addendum to my post on Tuesday about this Bill to draw your attention to two important developments: You may have received an email informing you that […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill

Posted on 20 May 2025 by David Cowan

This Bill was published yesterday (I'm writing this on Tuesday as off to a conference later), and this is a holding note just to explain what looks like the outstanding […]

Compensation for no-fault eviction

Posted on 16 May 2025 by David Cowan

I blogged about the Senedd’s Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector (“PRS”) late last year.  One of the recommendations in that report was that The Welsh […]

Welsh Housing Survey

Posted on 16 May 2025 by David Cowan

Approaches to policy-making can be driven from a range of different directions.  We can see that from the Trump administration and the UK response to the issues raised by Reform's […]

Community led housing

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Although I'm mildly sceptical about community led housing, there is a really interesting blog post by Claire White on the Cwmpas blog that is well worth reading about trying to […]

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 […]

Legislation klaxon

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Three new housing Bills were announced for this final year of the current administration by Julie James, Counsel General, on 29th April: homelessness; social housing allocation; and building safety.  The […]

Coastal 2 – Hearing dates

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Forgive the extra break in the blog from last week (on vacation).  The big news is that the hearing dates in what this blog has called Coastal 2 (the fallout […]

Hoarders

Posted on 25 April 2025 by David Cowan

Experience suggests that there can be few harder, more serious issues raised than those raised by hoarders.  Hoarding is a recognised psychological condition, commonly found alongside other psychological conditions.  For […]

Building safety

Posted on 11 April 2025 by David Cowan

I cannot claim any expertise on building safety (I recommend Susan Bright's blog for that purpose), but there has been a flurry of activity in Wales this week, following the […]

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