Land Business Tracker | January 2022
Welcome to our quarterly tracker of key land management, farming, planning and energy regulation and legislation.
In this issue we cover:
Implement now:
- National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates
- Agricultural support schemes
- Changes to permitted development rights allowing commercial premises to be converted into homes
- The Fire Safety Act 2021
- Business rates relief
- Electrical safety in the private rented sector
- Licencing regime for releasing gamebirds on and around protected sites
- Annual Investment Allowance temporary cap and 130% ‘super-deduction’
Monitor now
- Environment Act 2021
- Net Zero Strategy
- Guiding principles on the environment: draft statutory guidance
- Ending the retail sale of peat in horticulture
- Water abstraction and impounding licensing in England: changes to the regulatory framework
- The Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2021
- Planning Bill 2021 – 22
- Local development planning – regulations and guidance: consultation
- Draft National Planning Framework 4
- Increased transparency in land ownership
- The Building Safety Bill
- Heat and buildings strategy
- Renters’ Reform Bill
- Domestic smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
- Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes in England and Wales
- Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) Regulations
- A New Deal for Tenants – draft Rented Sector Strategy consultation
- Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Act
- The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax – Additional Dwelling Supplement: A call for evidence and views