While headlines have, understandably, been dominated for months by the response to COVID-19, this alert looks to summarise the various non-COVID-19 legal developments affecting real estate in England, Wales and Scotland over the spring and summer of 2020.

Dentons' English and Welsh real estate non-COVID autumn 2020 round-up covers: commonhold – the preferred alternative to residential leasehold?; ongoing review of residential leasehold; the new Lease Code 2020; the ongoing saga of GAGAs; changes to the planning system; consultation on proposals to require additional transparency of contractual controls over land; the Supreme Court decision on business rates and cash machines; the Electronic Communications Code and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954; new methods for executing/signing real estate documentation and the Supreme Court decision on restraint of trade.

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Dentons' Scottish real estate non-COVID autumn 2020 round-up covers: new Scottish community right to buy land for sustainable development; new Scottish Land Commission protocols; case about common good land; Supreme Court decision on restraint of trade in commercial leases; recent Scottish cases on the electronic communications code – recent Scottish cases; important Scottish planning case on the tilted balance; the Tied Pubs (Scotland) Bill; the Heat Networks (Scotland) Bill; and digital transformation for Registers of Scotland.

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