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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 25/06/2025

🏙️ How do laws shape the production, materialisation, safety and maintenance of residential towers? ✍️📄 @suejbright.bsky.social, Sarah Blandy & Fabiana Bettini map how law interacts with housing financialisation across scales. 📖 Read here: buff.ly/F0e7zsN #UrbanStudies #VerticalUrbanisation

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Residential vertical urbanisation: The intertwining of law and financialisation

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Sue Bright @suejbright.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Blog post looks at whether leaseholders have to pay fire safety costs incurred before Building Safety Act. Issues discussed in Court of Appeal hearing and now waiting for judgment blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...

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Retrospectivity under the Building Safety Act 2022: A note on the Court of Appeal hearings in Adriatic Land 5 Ltd v Long Leaseholders at Hippersley Point and Stratford Village Development Partnership ...

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Katie NLC @nlc-movement.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?) Are escalating ground rents enforceable? www.leaseholdknowledge.com/might-consum...

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Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders' escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?) - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

Oxford law professor asks whether escalating ground rents were ever enforceable in the first place.

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Sue Bright @suejbright.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Article in Cambridge Law Journal about escalating ground rents. Views must be tested in court (**leaseholders must still pay for now**) but terms may not be enforceable against consumers. Complex legal arguments, and fact specific application. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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ESCALATING GROUND RENTS IN RESIDENTIAL LEASES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge Core

ESCALATING GROUND RENTS IN RESIDENTIAL LEASES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

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Sue Bright @suejbright.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Does anyone from N Ireland know anything about how estate charges work on these estates? I assume, like in E&W, homeowners expected to pay. What is the legal mechanism used for this?

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Road and sewer issues a 'time bomb' for homeowners - BBC News

Some residents in unadopted housing developments in Northern Ireland are left with road and sewer issues.

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Sue Bright @suejbright.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Blog post on recent FTT RCO for £13m + against 76 respondents at Vista Tower. Post looks at associate liability , the 'just and equitable discretion', and relevant defects. @lkpleasehold.bsky.social @eocs-official.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...

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Vista Tower Remediation Contribution Order – Associate Liability

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Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date! www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...

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2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"why are there still no answers?" One of the more meaningful things I did workwise in 2024 was to co-host an exhibition of the local response to Grenfell, in graffiti and a timeline, with Cathy Long. We reflect on it here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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How we make history together – Exhibiting the local aftermath of Grenfell

Having documented the community response after the Grenfell Tower fire, Flora Cornish and Cathy Long recently hosted an interactive exhibition in the local area. They suggest how the collaborative …

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Sue Bright @suejbright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

My first bluesky post. Matthew Bell of Melbourne Law School explains how the High Court of Australia in Pafburn held a developer's duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid economic loss caused by defects could not be delegated. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...

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Statutory duties of care for construction work: Australia’s High(est) Court has spoken

Source: Matthew Bell

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