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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 […]

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 […]

The temporary accommodation crisis

Posted on 27 March 2025 by David Cowan

I have been co-organising a workshop about crises as dysfunctions of government (taking place at Cardiff Law School building), at which there are four papers addressing the housing crisis in […]

The PSOW

Posted on 21 March 2025 by David Cowan

For various reasons over the last 30 years (more or less), I have been taking an interest in the administrative justice space that affects housing.  That includes stuff around local […]

Notes on devolution

Posted on 14 March 2025 by David Cowan

This past week or so has been one in which devolution of housing has cropped up, raising some odd little things.  Three odd little things, actually: leasehold reform; Awaab's law; […]

Gypsy and Traveller Consultation (and the PSOW)

Posted on 7 March 2025 by David Cowan

It's about time that we looked at the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSOW) - not so much a "deep dive" as a register of interest at this stage (to […]

Housing law and policy in Wales

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