In recent years, there has been a trend towards private maintenance of residential estates in England and Wales. Local authorities are not automatically adopting infrastructure, and this may mean lower standards of construction and upkeep. Homeowners face charges to maintain the estate, and find...

Two years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, it is estimated that maybe as many as 200,000 people in the UK are living in buildings with major fire safety defects. Some of these blocks are wrapped in flammable cladding, as was Grenfell Tower, but many blocks have other fire safety risks, both...

It is important for climate change mitigation and to address fuel poverty that multi-owned properties (MoPs) containing flats are refurbished with energy and carbon saving technologies (‘energy upgrades'). This article explains how the ownership and management (‘governance') arrangements of...

Improving the environmental performance of the built environment is a ‘super wicked’ problem, lacking a simplistic or straightforward response. This is particularly challenging where space is rented, in part because the relationships between the various owners, users and managers of the...

This paper explores the potential impact that the introduction of the UK’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme will have on a) energy use in the tenanted commercial built environment and b) the idea of the net lease

This reports on empirical research into the processes involved in repossession of homes from owners and tenants, with a particular focus on how information about the occupier's non-financial circumstances become known to decision-makers. The research involved: interviewing elite actors,...

Reducing energy use in tenanted commercial property requires greater understanding of 'buildings as communities.' Tenanted commercial properties represent: (1) the divergent communities that share specific buildings and (2) the organisational communities represented by multi-site landlord and...

In this chapter we analyze the legal routes used to deliver Low Cost Home Ownership in England where there is some element of public subsidy involved. In order to evaluate the various products used for LCHO (right to buy, part-ownership, co-operative housing models), this chapter: a) Explains...

This paper explains how empirical enquiry of the kind unburdened by the pursuit of a particular hypothesis or strict adherence to scientific methods, has much to offer in terms of developing our understanding of law and, in particular, the traditionally doctrinal field of property law, providing...