Moseley, Birmingham (1967 Act Decisions): LVT 17 Jun 2004
Citations: [2004] EWLVT 263 Links: Bailii Statutes: Leasehold Reform Act 1967 21(1)(a) Landlord and Tenant Updated: 11 September 2022; Ref: scu.439256
Citations: [2004] EWLVT 263 Links: Bailii Statutes: Leasehold Reform Act 1967 21(1)(a) Landlord and Tenant Updated: 11 September 2022; Ref: scu.439256
A basement extending under the house next door means that the property with the basement is not a not a dwelling-house for leasehold enfranchisement purposes. The result would create difficulties with flying freeholds. ‘The primary purpose of section 2(2) must have been to exclude from the operation of the Act houses in respect of which … Continue reading Duke of Westminster and Others v Birrane: CA 17 Nov 1994
The court was called upon to construe the Act. when the question was whether a tenant could bring himself within the Act had to be more strict than the construction of the Rent Acts because the Leasehold Reform Act enabled a tenant to acquire compulsorily a greater interest in the house against the will of … Continue reading Poland and Another v Cadogan: CA 1980
The tenant under the long lease became bankrupt. His receiver served a notice seeking to enfranchise the lease. Held: The notice had been ineffective. Arden, Rimer LJJ, Sir David Keene [2014] EWCA Civ 17, [2014] WLR (D) 20 Bailii, WLRD Leasehold Reform Act 1967 1(1), Land Registration Act 2002 306 England and Wales Landlord and … Continue reading The Free Grammar School of John Lyon (The Keepers and Governors of The Possessions, Revenues and Goods of) v Helman: CA 22 Jan 2014
The applicant tenant occupied property originally a pair of semi-detached derelict cottages and six acres of land. He successively reconstructed each cottage, initially living in one of them and sub-letting the other; constructed a five door garage building; and then obtained vacant possession of the sub-let cottage and opened up the dividing wall to make … Continue reading Dixon v Allgood: HL 1987
Tenants sought enfranchisement of their properties, but 75% of building consisted of a shop, and only 25% was living accomodation. Held: The tenants were entitled to buy the freehold. The question whether a building is a house ‘reasonably so called’ is one of law. The House made two particular points of general application on the … Continue reading Tandon v Trustees of Spurgeons Homes: HL 1982