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Womble Bond Dickinson announces key appointment strengthening residential expertise
16 Apr 2024
International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has announced the appointment of Julia Thomson as a Partner to enhance its delivery of high quality social housing and housebuilding support. With a distinguished 25-year career advising across the living sector, Julia brings a wealth of expertise to the firm, particularly in complex residential projects, acquisitions for development and management of all other aspects of the development process.
Navigating planning roadblocks: the top challenge for housebuilders
05 Mar 2024
The process of obtaining planning permission in the UK has long been a significant challenge for home builders. The Home Builders Federation Report confirms that the two main obstacles for SME housebuilders are, chronic delays in the planning system and over-stretched Local Authority planning departments.
Roundtable fosters collaboration on the direction of ESG investing in the built environment
07 Sep 2023
Housebuilders, banks, and investors gathered in July in London to discuss the findings of Womble Bond Dickinson’s report ESG: Investing in the built environment. Key themes of the report include the drivers behind the adoption of ESG principles, changing investor priorities, and the banking sector's focus on sustainability linked KPI’s, particularly in Sustainability Linked Loans (SLLs).
Register your higher risk building
21 Aug 2023
The Building Safety Act 2022 imposes a requirement on those responsible for higher risk buildings or HRBs to register the building with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) by 30 September 2023. It is an offence to allow an HRB to be occupied where it is not registered with the BSR. If you are the owner of a building that is at least seven storeys or more than 18m in height (or are responsible for the management of a building of that type) you should be aware that there is now an urgent requirement to prepare an application to the BSR to register the building.
New report: How ESG principles are impacting on companies in the UK built environment
16 Jun 2023
Womble Bond Dickinson commissioned the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to conduct a desk-based, evidence-rich review that focused on real estate and particularly the housebuilding, banking and investment sectors. The outcomes have recently been published in our report.
A sting in the tail of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill
18 Jul 2022
Part 9 of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill gives the Land Registry the right to collect information about dealings in land. The fine detail of exactly what information is to be provided, under what circumstances it will be required and how it is to be provided will be set out in regulations to be published separately.
Expert panel discussion busts MMC myths
30 Mar 2022
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) hosted a lively online panel discussion with experts on MMC (modern methods of construction) earlier this month (2 March), as part of its re:build Britain campaign, following the publication of its special report MMC: a fit for the future.
MMC: expert opinions on the future of construction
07 Mar 2022
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) has seen a huge increase in interest and investment over the last few years. There are a number of reasons for this, ranging from the Government's mandate that a minimum of 25% of affordable homes must be delivered using MMC, the pressures of both labour and skills shortages forcing the industry to rethink how it allocates its resources most effectively, the lessons from the pandemic where the industry has realised it can do things differently, the unmet high demand for housing, and the impetus around net zero.
Womble Bond Dickinson explores scalability through Modern Methods of Construction
21 Dec 2021
Industry experts have called for greater standardisation, collaboration and incentivisation to make Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) work at scale.
Finding the right fit: how MMC will work across the UK
20 Dec 2021
Experts in Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) have challenged the idea it will only work in certain pockets of the UK and argue that it will contribute to the levelling up agenda if embraced.
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