"Gagged development = stunted growth = stagnation"

November 2009

Simon Tolson, in an article prepared for the ICES Journal looks at the planning, conservation approval and listed building consent processes.

Construction Law Update Paper

9 March 2007

Earlier articles - in HTML format

Getting paid - How to ensure prompt payment from your clients and what to do when they cannot pay
6 November 2003

"The Defective Premises Act 1972"

November 2011

Peter Collie, in a paper given at the latest Fenwick Elliott Construction Law Update Seminar, reviews the Defective Premises Act looking at what damages are recoverable under the Act, specifically focusing on claims for loss of rent.

"The legalities of being sustainable"

23 February 2010

Barry Hembling presented this paper, written by Simon Tolson at the RICS Sustainability Conference, in which he deals with the sustainability requirements for new build and re-fits contracts.

"Sustainable development in the construction industry"

30 September 2008

In an introductory paper given to the Lexis Nexis Conference on Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry, Simon Tolson sets out to answer the question “what is sustainable development?” In doing so, he reviews sustainable development policy and its basis in theory considering for example, the Equator principles and the European Principles for the Environment as well as a number of UK Government initiatives.