Local authority liable for incorrect search result
The High Court has held that a local authority (LA) was liable after providing a buyer incorrect information in a local authority search, which was subsequently relied upon in the purchasing of the property. In Chesterton Commercial (Oxon) Ltd v Oxfordshire County Council [2015] the LA failed to disclose an investigation into whether part of […]
Don’t take a risk with contaminated land
A recent article from Groundsure has uncovered that contaminated land is more prevalent than originally thought. The article has stated that former industrial land across England and Wales could be twice as contaminated than original figures suggested, meaning that these sites now occupy around 4% of land across the UK. With these new statistics being […]