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A dense thicket of Japanese knotweed with bamboo-like stems and broad, light green leaves.

Japanese knotweed: A question of timing and causation

Aerial view of a new housing development with multiple tan-brick houses, fenced gardens, and construction activity in the background.

Changes to planning rules: For farms and rural businesses

Large steel electricity transmission pylons stand in a green field under a blue sky with thin clouds, viewed from an unpaved road.

Granting a telecoms lease: Why it’s different from a traditional commercial letting

A flock of sheep grazing and resting on a grassy hillside near a cluster of trees and a stone house.

Retaining control when selling land: the options explained

A green tractor ploughs a field on a farm, creating rows of turned soil. Trees with autumn foliage and rolling hills are visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

PFAS: The new environmental challenge landowners cannot ignore

A wooden gate in a grassy field looking out over a wide, rural landscape of farmland and trees under a cloudy sky.

Statutory powers of entry: A welcome result for landowners

Yorkshire Farm

Michelmores successfully defends Staffordshire estate against historic right of way claim

Tractor feeding crops

Employment Rights Act 2025: what did April bring?

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Conditional exemption: from Inheritance Tax

Cottage in rural countryside

Renters’ Rights Act 2025: reduced security for legacy assured tenants

A large country cottage styled house with farm yard gates

Residential tenancies: round-up of changes under the RRA 2025

Sheep grazing on the harsh landscape in Dartmoor

Commons grazing: implications of the Dartmoor commoners case

A row of old stone cottages with slate roofs, small chimneys, and wooden doors line a cobbled street. Some windows have flowerpots, and a few climbing plants grow near the doors.

Energy performance of buildings framework: moving to a more sustainable future

Flock of egg laying domestic hens with brown feathers standing on floor of poultry farm shed with cages in daylight against blurred reflecting background

Animal welfare: changes in policy

Aerial photo of the British country side fields in the winter time showing a river that has burst it's bank to overspill water on the fields, taken in the town of Wetherby in Yorkshire in the UK

Contaminated land: from an agricultural landowner’s perspective

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