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Carbon reduction – lease implications

The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme has been amended as part of the Treasury spending review, but it remains a highly complex topic and one which poses potential problems for both Ls and Ts. 


The starting point is that companies which use more than c£500,000 worth of electricity in a year have to register and are then potentially liable for additional payments. Against that, they were originally entitled to offset recycling payments, which would then significantly reduce the overall cost of CRC. However, those recycling payments were abolished in the spending review, and the end result is likely to be that CRC payments become far larger – and therefore potentially more important to Ls and Ts. 


Sewer - right to connect

The Supreme Court has upheld the right of a developer to connect to a public sewer, even if the statutory undertaker is concerned that the additional discharge will overburden the sewage system. The cost of any necessary works will fall on the sewage undertaker (and not on the developer).

Music - public places

If you act on behalf of clients who have had to pay Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) licence fees for playing background music in public, then advise them that they may be eligible for a refund.

Carbon reduction _ April 2010

CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) is a mandatory emissions trading scheme that is likely to come into force next April. It will require organisations to buy allowances to cover the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that they produce in a year. In practice this will cover businesses with an electricity bill of more than £500,000pa.

Sewer - connecting to
For any developer, the right to be able to connect premises to the public sewer is vitally important. That right is given by s106 Water Industry Act 1991, which says the sewerage undertaker can only refuse permission if the proposed sewer is ‘not to a standard reasonably required by the undertaker’ or if ‘the proposed connection would be prejudicial to the sewage system’.
Developing in the green belt
authorObtaining planning permission for development in the green belt is a tricky business. The green belt is, with good reason, highly protected by planning policy. In order to get permission to develop you need to be able to show that there are special circumstances to justify it. But what circumstances will be special enough?
Gas - CORGI
The CORGI scheme is to be abolished on 1 April. From that date, only a fitter on the ‘Gas Safe Register’ can do approved gas work (eg carry out inspections; install boilers). There are no transitional provisions, which means you must ensure that any existing contractor is properly registered under the new scheme as from 1 April.
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