UPDATED Use of Land Book and Webinar

In a blog post in July, I briefly outlined the important changes to the Use Classes Order that were due to take effect on 1 September. As I explained at the time, this was only a first stab at the subject, and I have now completed a much more thorough examination of the changes and their practical effect, in the form of a Supplement to The Essential Guide to the Use of Land and Buildings under the Planning Acts, which is due to be published shortly.

The previous Use Classes will remain relevant until well into next year, and so this Updated Edition of the book will continue to be an essential resource for everyone concerned with the planning aspects of the use of land buildings. A complete new edition of the book would be premature at present, because there are clearly important further changes still to come, but I have taken the opportunity to update the main text of the book to reflect the recent changes and to flag up their relationship to the previous Use Classes.

Readers can choose from several options in buying this important new material. For the most complete coverage of the subject, I would recommend the purchase of the Updated 1st Edition of the book, which comes complete with the bound-in Supplement. For the same price as the original edition (£50.00), this is an excellent bargain. If you really don’t want to replace your (now out-of-date) First Edition of the book, then you can buy the Supplement alone for £15.00, but this means you won’t have access to the updated text of the main book.

Whichever option you choose, another absolute bargain will be available in the form of a Webinar (via Zoom) on the UCO changes, to be broadcast on Thursday, 26 November from 10.00 to 11.30 a.m. You can book for the Webinar, as well as buying the Updated 1st Edition of the book, with bound-in Supplement, for only £75.00. (This means that you’ll pay only £25.00 to attend the Webinar.) If you really don’t want the updated edition of the book, you can book for the Webinar, and still received the Supplement separately for a price of £40.00 (which again means paying only £25.00 for the webinar).

The topics covered in the Supplement, which will also be discussed in the Webinar are:

• the new sui generis uses
• the new Use Class E
• the new Use Classes F.1 and F.2
• transitional provisions and other changes
• some problems of interpretation
• the effect on Permitted Development

There will be an extended Q&A session at the end of the Webinar, to enable participants to put questions to me and to my colleagues from Keystone Law’s Planning Law Team on the practical effect of the UCO changes.

All Webinar delegates will receive a recording of the webinar with an office licence, so everyone in your team can watch it later.

If you don’t want to attend the Webinar, you can still buy either the Updated 1st Edition of the book (complete with bound-in Supplement) for £50.00, or the Supplement alone for £15.00

Ordering and booking are really easy. All you need do is to click on either the 'Pre-order' or 'Book Now' buttons in the left-hand margin of this page, then read more and place your order.

© MARTIN H GOODALL