CPI Update 253 – June 2025

For subscribers, the June 2025 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases:

  • Empty property rates relief for business rates – City of London v 48th Street Holding Ltd.
  • Adverse possession where land is subject to a trust – Nazir v Begum.
  • Modifying restrictive covenants for development – Great Jackson St Estates Ltd v City of Manchester.
  • Validity of contracts for sale – Quick Property Sale Ltd v Solaja & Anor. 
  • Boundary demarcation agreements – Bishop v Jaques.
  • Consents under restrictive covenants – Ball & Anor v Fulton.
  • Rights of recreation and wild camping – Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority.      

There is also coverage of:

  • A new consultation on biodiversity net gain. 
  • Planning consultations for housebuilding.
  • Replacement consumer protection legislation in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.
  • Consultation on draft regulations for rents under the electronic communications code.
  • 1954 Act lease renewals and section 28.
  • The Law Society’s climate change practice note.

Published on 30 May 2025.