England's compulsory purchase fight is about hope value
Planning permission can lift farmland's price 275 times. In 2023 the government planned to let a minister drop that hope value from an order, case by case.
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England's 1974 reform scrapped councils, not its old counties
The Local Government Act 1972 abolished England's old councils and named new areas counties. Yorkshire and Cumberland live on as historic counties.
In the UK, a dangerous building waits for a council's notice
Under the Building Act 1984, a council must serve notice before it makes a dangerous building safe. In Boston, a fire-hit wall stood unsupported meanwhile.
The UK's Climate Change Act binds ministers to net zero by 2050
The 2008 Act made net zero by 2050 a legal duty for UK ministers, with five-year carbon budgets. The UK met the first three but is off track for the next two.
Homebuyers sue UK housebuilders over alleged price collusion
Law firms want up to £4.5bn from Britain's biggest housebuilders, on behalf of 700,000 buyers, over alleged collusion on new-build prices.
A UK power of attorney passes your decisions to someone you trust
A power of attorney lets a chosen person act for you if illness or injury stops you deciding. Scotland lets you grant one at 16, the rest of the UK at 18.
UK press regulator IPSO decides where a correction must run
IPSO, the UK press regulator, sets how prominent a newspaper's correction must be, in print and online. Rulings on The Sun and the Press & Journal show how.