Writing in NLJ this week, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, says English planning applicants should lodge promptly before fees rise in December, with local authorities able to set cost-reflective charges and a major section 73 application reaching £3,150.
Elsewhere, Coal Pension Properties v Mace Living shows why an old N244 form did not authorise service of a claim form by email: PD 6A requires an express check on electronic-service limits. The High Court refused retrospective validation.
Gold also highlights the 30 October start of qualifying unions’ physical and digital workplace-access regime, enforced through the Central Arbitration Committee, and new transparency duties for housing associations.
He ends with a warning to expert witnesses: adverse findings fairly put in cross-examination give them no general right of appeal.
