The end date is looming and we are aware that LL lobby groups are pressing government not to grant any further extensions. The Property Bounce-back Grant has been pushed heavily at the start of this week, but can government afford…
Kerry has been asked to meet the Deputy Mayor of London next week to discuss all things retail. Agenda yet to be seen. Therefore, if you have any strong views of trade life in the capital please send on direct.
Any emails provided by members from bailiffs or firms showing how the ‘system’ can be beaten in order to get rent payments are being sent to BEIS – this is to give them a flavour of how potential action is…
31/07/2020 – Both Kerry and David had a call with ministers on Friday afternoon to share first-hand the issues retailers are currently facing both on department enforcement and the decisions being taken now over the uncertainty of business rates in…
Background In recent years there has been a significant improvement in the way landlords compile, manage and communicate their service charges to their tenants. This has had led to far greater transparency regarding one of an occupiers major costs. I…
In today’s Budget speech the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan T.D., set out the changes to NAMA policy in relation to upward only rent reviews in relation to tenants experiencing difficulties in paying rents. The Minister said: I am fully…
Despite the current state of the High Street and the malaise in the retail market many of you will still be facing rental increases, or at least a difficult negotiations to agree nil increases or reductions, at rent review or…
The dilapidations protocol has been adopted as a pre-action protocol under the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) with effect from 1 January 2012. The protocol relates to claims for dilapidations against tenants at the termination of commercial leases (terminal dilapidation claims).…
Grant Shapps, the Housing Minister, announced today that the Government is accepting virtually all of the 28 recommendations in the independent Portas High Street Review last December. Encouragingly, Mr Shapps says he is going one step further with a ‘Portas-Plus’…
Storing just 16 pallets in a 140,000 ft2 warehouse sounds pretty empty to us. But yesterday, the High Court gave in the case of Makro Self Service Wholesalers Ltd v Nuneaton & Bedworth BC much needed cheer to the numerous…
