This week the BCLP Retail team highlights a blog by our Planning & Zoning team on the recent High Court dismissal of a challenge to the recent changes to the Use Classes Order and General Permitted Development Order. We also...more
This week, the BCLP Retail team look at the impact of the four week lockdown for England and extension of furlough, review the scale of shop closures and key findings in LDC’s latest retail market analysis report, and discuss...more
On Saturday 31 October, the UK Prime Minister announced a second national lockdown in England and an extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”). The lockdown comes into force on Thursday 4 November 2020 and...more
11/2/2020
/ Business Closures ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Furloughs ,
HMRC ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Non-Essential Businesses ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Shelter-In-Place ,
UK ,
Workplace Safety
Less than two weeks after the announcement of the extension of the Job Support Scheme (“JSS”) and amidst widespread concern from the hospitality industry that Tier 2 restrictions represent the “worst of all worlds” for the...more
This week, the BCLP Retail team analyse the recent rent payment figures from the retail sector and discuss possible creative means of fostering resiliency for landlords and operators. We look at the reaction from retailers to...more
Less than two weeks after the announcement of the Job Support Scheme (“JSS”) and with just over 3 weeks until the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”) ends, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has, today, made an...more
This week the BCLP Retail Team look back on the variety of changes since the start of lockdown, presented here in an interactive timeline. We discuss the raft of new measures introduced by the Government as cases increase,...more
This week the BCLP Retail Team evaluate the end of the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme and discuss a possible Government-sponsored scheme to fund public transportation. We also consider the effect of working from home on high...more
This week the BCLP Retail Team look at the impact of the changes to the Use Classes Order 1987 on retailers, the new regulations requiring face coverings in shops, the Land Registry’s acceptance of electronic signatures and...more
In the third retail update bulletin from the BCLP Retail Team we look at the latest measures taken by the Government in the second phase of its economic response to the COVID-19 crisis. The measures include guidance on face...more
This week we assess the impact of Intu’s administration as one of the first high profile corporate casualties of the COVID-19 crisis. However it’s not all doom and gloom as we also take a look at two publications that the...more
The return of customers to non-essential shops on Monday 15 June dominated mainstream news headlines this week but there were plenty of other developments that will be of interest to the retail sector. In this bulletin we...more