Our spring 2018 round-up of articles written by colleagues in other UK practice areas highlights regulatory, housebuilding, planning, environmental ...

Welcome to our autumn edition of the UK Construction Briefing in which we highlight a variety of issues affecting UK construction businesses.

In October, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched two consultations, to review payment, adjudication and retention practices in the English construction industry.

The summaries below contain updates and links to recent articles from colleagues specialising in planning...

The government has committed to building 1 million homes in five years and is relying on the Housing and Planning Bill to help achieve that goal.

The government published the Government Construction Strategy 2016-20 in March 2016 with a forecast of increased construction productivity over that period. The government aims to: encourage the use of collaborative procurement techniques...

The rapidly approaching referendum on 23 June 2016 to decide whether to stay in or leave the European Union (EU) is an issue for all businesses.

In November 2015, in a widely anticipated judgment, the Supreme Court reviewed the operation of the rule on penalties for the first time in a century.

Following a public consultation, the Sentencing Council has issued new guidelines for the sentencing of health and safety offences and corporate manslaughter.

The newly established National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is committed to looking broadly at long-term infrastructure needs and giving impartial advice to ministers and Parliament.

1 October 2015 ushers in a number of legal changes which affect construction businesses operating in the UK.