The Impact Of Lockdown On Employee Engagement In The Legal Sector
Over the past few months, for employees whose responsibilities can be carried out remotely, working from home has long-since become the “new normal.” Like other businesses, many firms have had to adapt in order to keep functioning. Managing partners need to consider the impact of lockdown on a whole range of things, of which employee […]
Search Acumen Comments On MHCLG Planning Consultation
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Few areas of the industry are calling out for transformation more than the UK’s planning system which places a greater emphasis on documents rather than data and local officials’ knowledge of the areas they directly manage. “Covid 19 has acted as catalyst for the digitisation of several areas […]
Celebrating Ten Years Of The Bold Legal Group
Free online forum now available to all conveyancers The Bold Legal Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Founder Rob Hailstone said: “It is no secret that the BLG was formed after Hips went, and that Bold stood for bundle of legal documents. However, pretty quickly in 2010 I realised that voluntary packs were […]
Consultation To Reform Planning System For The Future
Today, 6 August, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced that an overhaul of the planning system is needed, to deliver “high-quality, sustainable homes communities need” and that need will be at the heart of “significant reforms” to housing policies. Stating the current situation is “sluggish” in providing homes and ineffective in obligating developers to properly fund […]
Automatic Planning Permission For New Builds
As part of the government’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ strategy in a bid to strengthen the UK economy following the coronavirus pandemic, it has been revealed that new homes and hospitals will be granted “automatic” permission to be built in England. In the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Jenrick wrote, that under the new rules land will be designated […]
‘Nightingale Courts’ To Help With Eviction Backlog
With evictions and repossession cases set to begin again on the 23 August 2020, the government has established Nightingale Courts – similar to the Nightingale Hospitals used to help the NHS – in a bid to reduce the backlog of cases that has built up as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Nightingale Courts […]
Help To Buy Deadline Extended
The government has extended the completion dates for home buyers using the Help to Buy who reserved their homes by 30 June 2020. The deadline for practical completion will move from 31 December 2020 to 28 February 2021. Those home buyers who have suffered severe delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, now have until 31 […]