{"id":331,"date":"2026-04-10T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:48:58","slug":"save-the-date-september-10-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/save-the-date-september-10-11-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the date: September 10-11 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any reader of this blog will recognise my common anxiety about the lack of housing law expertise in Wales and what this might mean for social and private landlords, tenants, and those experiencing homelessness.\u00a0 Devolved housing law requires a degree of knowledge and expertise that goes beyond many of the standard texts that mostly focus on England.\u00a0 Devolved housing law also produces some significant issues, such as\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/when-rent-is-not-payable-coastal-housing-group-ltd-v-mitchell\/\">Coastal litigation<\/a>.\u00a0 There may be others, such as raised by David Smith in last week&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>So, in combination with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/\">Housing Law Practitioners Association<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/shla.org.uk\/\">Social Housing Landlords Association<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lag.org.uk\/\">Legal Action Group,<\/a> I am co-organising a two day event on September 10th-11th of \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Masterclasses in Welsh Housing Law<\/span>\u201d in Cardiff, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/visit\/accessibility\/cathays-park-campus\/glamorgan-building\">Glamorgan Building of Cardiff University<\/a>.\u00a0 The cost of the event is going to be pegged, I am hoping, at \u00a330, and I am also hoping that there will be free or subsidised places.\u00a0 For the price of admission, you will get refreshments and access to the event (although you will have to arrange your overnight accommodation).<\/p>\n<p>The timetable and everything will be publicised soon.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just in the process of putting together a fabulous roster of some amazing speakers etc in combination with the other organisations.<\/p>\n<p>However, the purpose of the event doesn&#8217;t just stop there &#8211; the idea is to produce a series of training notes which will be freely downloadable by anybody.\u00a0 If you come to the event, you will benefit from plenary sessions and small group workshops, so attendance will be desirable.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow when we have the timetable and speakers organised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any reader of this blog will recognise my common anxiety about the lack of housing law expertise in Wales and what this might mean for social and private landlords, tenants, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}