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DMPO The requirement provided by Article 40(3)(b) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order...

To paraphrase the Kipling poem very badly, if you can keep your head and apply the April statutory increases when all around you there is...

Section 12 of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) requires that contracting authorities (a) have regard to the fact that small and...

In a mini-competition run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the invitation to submit mini-tenders told framework suppliers...

As the Renters' Rights Bill (the Bill) continues its journey through Parliament, scheduled for Committee Stage in the House of Lords on...

Contracting authorities will have seen that there is a range of obligations relating to key performance indicators (KPIs) under the...

Lawyers love this word ‘reasonable’ – I would go as far as to say that we spend an unreasonable amount of time debating what reasonable...

Social Housing Development and the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) What package? Where a developer offers to sell land, but only if it builds...

The Government announced the new Plan for Neighbourhoods £1.5bn funding pot, last month, which I'm sure will be very welcome news for the...

For the Local Government Pension Scheme, the new year starts not on 1 January but on 1 April and with the start of a new scheme year,...

McDonalds is back in our headlines. The BBC has recently reported on the alarming rates of sexual harassment of its staff rising to such...

The commissioning of social care has taken place during times of budgetary constraints and considerable demand for decades, where...