Welcome to the Summer 2016 edition of Quarterly in Advance published by Wedlake Bell’s Real Estate Team for all our clients and colleagues in the property world.
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Contents
- ‘Dear Beatrice’ – in this edition Beatrice Gallivan answers a query on how property owners can stop other people acquiring rights to park on their land.
- ‘Changing the planning landscape…Starter Homes’ – Jay Das, Planning Partner, demystifies Starter Homes and describes how developers can use the new rights to their advantage.
- ‘Are smart buildings security smart?’ – Tamsin Davies explains what can happen if the cyber security of buildings and their management systems is not up to scratch.
- ‘BIM – what is it and why we think it is yet to be fully embraced’ – Katie Whitford goes back to basics and tells us what BIM is and the industry’s concerns about using it.
- ‘Flooding – who is responsible for the damage?’ – Chloe Dexter reminds landlords and tenants what they should check in their leases so there are no unwelcome surprises if the building floods.
- ‘Measuring up: what do the new IPMS standards mean for the measurement of buildings?‘ – Claire Haynes gives an overview of the new measurement standards and their effect on legal documents.
- ‘Balancing the books’ – A guest piece, written by Matthew Stallabrass, Partner at Crowe Clarke Whitehill LLP, on the new international accounting standards for leases.