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Oct 31, 2024 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, known as “Martyn’s Law”, is currently progressing through Parliament and has implications for all educational establishments, with an estimated 22,990 schools affected by it. Although the Bill affects all premises open to the public of a certain size, the Bill contains specific provisions which only relate to schools, colleges and universities.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
farrer.co.uk | Rose Gurney |Elizabeth Earle |Christina Tennant
“Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good”: unexpected words to hear from the CEO of Harley-Davidson, but prescient. It might be refined to say it’s about doing both. As forward-looking institutions, many schools have long been ahead of the field in terms of looking to reduce their impact on the environment.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
The previous government “… had to accept that the court system is not ready to deal with the abolition of section 21 in full and they … had to delay its introduction” (Lord Frost in the House of Lords on 15 May 2024). Both the previous Conservative “Renters (Reform) Bill” and now Labour’s “Renters’ Rights Bill” appear, at least superficially, to be similar. But what has changed, and will it work?
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
Statutory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) came into force on 12 February 2024. It has generally been portrayed either as a compliance issue for developers, or as an opportunity for landowners. It should, however, also be given due consideration in the context of buying and selling country houses and estates. Why is BNG relevant to country houses? There are two reasons: the first is that when estates change hands, new owners will often want to develop or redevelop parts of it.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
Although absent from the main parties’ manifestos this time around, the question of whether England should create a wider right to roam, modelled on the Scottish system, refuses to go away. Labour dropped it as a policy in Autumn 2023, but calls for greater access persist, and a draft English Right to Roam Bill 2024 already exists.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
latsatts.com | Elizabeth Earle
The ice of the winter air bites into my white-knuckled hands as I pull further back on the lines. I grit my teeth, the water from the canal dripping from between my clenched fingers as I slowly, slowly bring her towards the towpath. Malvern, aka “Maggie”, built in 1928 as a horse boat, is being handled by a five foot seven woman with a hangover. Brilliant. “Come on, bab!” I beg, as if that will convince the beast to move her 23 tons any faster in the dark waters.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
Another year of sound and fury from Parliament, but what does it all signify for rural estates? Amidst all the hullabaloo about housing targets and reforming the rented sector, there are important takeaways. Here are some of them. Abolition of section 21The stop-start progress of the Renters Reform Bill continues. The Bill had its second reading in Parliament on 23 October 2023, but a report by a parliamentary committee identified concerns about the ability of the court system to cope.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
latsatts.com | Elizabeth Earle |Zoe Kyle
Words by Elizabeth EarleThe ice of the winter air bites into my white-knuckled hands as I pull further back on the lines. I grit my teeth, the water from the canal dripping from between my clenched fingers as I slowly, slowly bring her towards the towpath. Malvern, aka “Maggie”, built in 1928 as a horse boat, is being handled by a five foot seven woman with a hangover. Brilliant. “Come on, bab!” I beg, as if that will convince the beast to move her 23 tons any faster in the dark waters.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
With the second round of applications for Defra’s landscape recovery scheme having closed on 21 September, it may prompt estates to consider whether applying in next year’s round would be a good point from which to dip a toe in the broader natural capital markets. At one end of the natural capital markets spectrum, are the government regulated compliance markets, like statutory biodiversity net gain where the market, demand and process are fairly transparent, but the market ultimately limited.
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May 19, 2023 | 
farrer.co.uk | Elizabeth Earle
The headline everywhere is that section 21 “no-fault” evictions will be banned in a reform of the private rented sector. It is certainly attention grabbing – both for tenants and landlords. The bill, which had its first reading in parliament on Wednesday, splits into two parts. The first reforms the system of assured tenancies by making them periodic only: it changes how they can be ended and introduces a system of statutory rent review.
