The Supreme Court will next week (8 October) hear the landowners’ appeal in a dispute over the lawfulness of wild camping on Dartmoor.

The Housing Ombudsman has set out nine tests for how it may assess shared ownership complaints in future.

External auditors at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have voiced "significant concerns" over the council's governance arrangements in light of delayed financial statements, alongside concerns about debt associated with a wholly-owned property company.

External auditors have flagged "significant" weaknesses in control processes relating to Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's disposal of assets, and have suggested that members were not "seriously considering" officer recommendations concerning the council's finances.

Private and social rented homes are set to be required to achieve Energy Performance Certificate C or equivalent by 2030 in a series of Government measures to improve home energy standards.

The London Borough of Newham has a lost a £1.6m case over an attempt to judicially review a decision by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on whether a floating hotel is a building for Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) purposes.

London’s leading grant-giving charity has issued judicial review proceedings against the government, arguing that the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (LFRA 24) will “jeopardize the financial stability and operational capacity of a handful of charities that depend on property assets for funding”.

Officers at Fareham Borough Council have "regrettably" recommended councillors to lift a set of tree preservation orders to avoid hefty compensation claims, just months after the council's leader called legislative reforms on the matter

The Law Society has launched a consultation on its TA6 Property information form following complaints from property lawyers.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, and Building Safety Minister, Rushanara Ali, have set out expectations for regulators and partners to “increase the pace” of remediating unsafe buildings, following a fire at a block of flats in Dagenham.

The London Borough of Richmond has lost a case over mooring on the River Thames in which a judge had earlier “excoriated” another judge’s order.

Commissioners have called for a "rigorous" lessons learned process at Birmingham City Council after the financially beleaguered local authority agreed to sell more than 700 properties at an estimated loss of around £320m.

The Charity Commission has seen a significant number of cases where local authorities have failed to comply with their legal duties as charity trustees and the watchdog has had to take action following receipt of complaints from the public, its new chief executive has warned.

The London Borough of Enfield has secured interim injunctions against the occupants of boats and land on the River Lea who it has claimed obstruct progress on a £6bn development of 10,000 homes.

The leader of Fareham Borough Council has called on the Government to fundamentally review how requests to fell trees protected by tree preservation orders and involved in subsidence claims are handled.

The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has been asked to decide whether a local authority should serve an improvement notice on the owner of a house in multiple occupation if there is doubt about whether a hazard exists.

Tendring District Council has secured a High Court injunction banning Clacton Classic Air Show visitors from camping alongside the seafront overnight in tents, campervans or mobile homes.

Campaigners have failed to unseat the Law Society's chief executive and president after the pair overcame a vote of no confidence at a meeting on Thursday (24 July) which also challenged Chancery Lane's ability to represent members who undertake conveyancing.

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets cannot recover the cost of rectifying structural defects in two blocks of flats from leaseholders’ service charges, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has ruled.

A group of property search companies have failed to persuade a High Court judge that CON29DW water and drainage searches provided by nine English water and sewerage companies and separate search operations run by Severn Trent and Wessex Water fall under the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) regime and should be provided at "reasonable cost" rather than commercial rates.

A BBC London investigation has found the London Borough of Lambeth used well over 100 confidentiality clauses to prevent leaseholders who have successfully challenged maintenance bills from discussing this.

Objectors to Hertfordshire County Council’s sale of land for a rail freight interchange have lost a judicial review application over the validity of the sale.

The Law Society will next month (23 July) hold a special general meeting after the Property Lawyers Action Group (PLAG) requisitioned a debate and vote on a motion of no confidence in Chancery Lane’s ability to represent members who undertake conveyancing.

Residential developer Redrow has lost a Court of Appeal case over the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ decision to allocate funds from the Building Safety Fund (BSF) to replace cladding on two blocks of flats.

The operator of an urban farm in London has lost a High Court bid to avoid the forfeiture of its lease for non-compliance with relevant covenants.

The High Court has ruled that new police powers introduced by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 are incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998 as they constitute unjustified race discrimination against travellers and gypsies.

Local authorities will from this summer gain a power to require landlords to rent out persistently vacant shops and other commercial properties as part of attempts to reinvigorate high streets, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has confirmed.

Reading Borough Council has joined nine urban councils in questioning Government proposals on brownfield reform after raising concerns that the changes could override local planning policies.