RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – discharge – house – restriction on use to private dwellinghouse or learned or artistic profession – whether restriction obsolete – Law of Property Act 1925, s84(1)(a). . .

LT RESTRICTIVE COVENANT – modification – discharge – restriction limiting development on plot to one dwellinghouse – application to amend to permit dormer bungalow in rear garden – no interference with objectors’ . .

LT RESTRICTIVE COVENANT – restriction to single dwellinghouse and against use causing nuisance, etc to owner of adjoining properties – extent of neighbourhood – whether covenant obsolete – application refused – . .

LT RESTRICTIVE COVENANT – restriction requiring paddock to remain undeveloped – application to discharge or modify this restriction so as to permit development with five houses – whether use of restriction as a . .

The land-owners applied for a variation of a restrictive covenant to allow them to put a second house on their plot. They had bought out the right of the original builder, but a neighbour also had the benefit of the covenant. They now appealed the . .

Objecting neighbours appealed against a decision allowing a variation of a restrictive covenant to allow the owner to convert a dwellinghouse into two self-contained apartments.
Held: The appeal failed. The power in the 1985 Act to vary a . .

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – modification – covenants restricting development, use and density to three detached private dwellings – modification sought to permit 83-bed care home – application dismissed – grounds (aa) and (c), s.84(1), Law of Property . .

Restrictive Covenant – Modification : Costs – – garden land with planning consent for additional residential dwelling – restriction preventing construction of more than one house per plot – building scheme – whether covenant secures practical . .

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – DISCHARGE – OBSOLETENESS – Law of Property Act 1925, s. 84(1)(a) – Restriction against building or alterations without prior approval of plans and specifications by the vendors’ surveyor – Whether covenant obsolete following . .

application by Pt 8 claim seeking a vesting order under section 181 of the Law of Property Act 1925. . .

RESTRICTIVE COVENANT – preliminary issue – whether restriction imposed under a disposition made gratuitously – Law of Property Act 1925 s 84(7) – applicant held not entitled to apply under s 84(1) . .

LT RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – application under section 84 of Law of Property Act 1925 as amended – whether a building scheme existed so as to entitle certain persons to object to the proposed modification or . .

An equity arising from a proprietary estoppel is not an ‘equitable interest’ capable of being overreached pursuant to section 2 of the Law of Property Act 1925. . .

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – Discharge or modification – Residential property – Covenants regulating user – Covenant against alterations – Law of Property Act 1925, s. 84 (1) (a) and (c) . .

LT Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 s.18 – Law of Property Act 1925 s.146 – Housing Act 1996 ss.81 and 82 – jurisdiction of LVT — covenant to pay costs in preparing notices under s.146 – Meaning of ‘service charge’ . .

RESTRICTIVE COVENANT – discharge or modification – leasehold flat in block of 31 flats – covenants against subletting and restricting user to lessee and his family – application refused – Law of Property Act 1925 s 84(1)(aa) . .

UTLC RESTRICTIVE COVENANT – modification – dwellinghouse – proposal to extend well in front of building line – application refused – Law of Property Act 1925 s84(1)(a), (aa), (b) and c) . .

The plaintiff sought rectification of its lease. Held: The court ordered rectfication applying section 63(1): ‘I need not read any further. But [Counsel] submits, I think rightly so, that under that provision the transfer, which was a transfer of the freehold reversion, subject, of course, to the lease, from the original landlords to the present … Continue reading Boots the Chemist Ltd v Street: 1983

The fact that a way is not itself made up or identifiable on the ground may not be fatal to the establishment of an easement under Wheeldon v. Burrows or section 62 of the 1925 Act, if the ends of the way are apparent and it is clear that it was the intention of the … Continue reading Hansford v Jago: 1921

A mortgagee may under common law go into possession before the ink is dry on the mortgage unless there is something in the contract, express or by implication, whereby he has contracted himself out of that right. He has the right because he has a legal term of years in the property or its statutory … Continue reading Four-Maids Ltd v Dudley Marshall (Properties) Ltd: 1957

Rights of a first lender to grant tenancies must be respected, and override the rights of a second mortgagee to possession. A mortgagee in possession has full power to grant a tenancy. A mortgagee is not limited by the section. Citations: Times 27-May-1999 Statutes: Law of Property Act 1925 99 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Land … Continue reading Berkshire Capital Funding Ltd v Street et Al: CA 27 May 1999

A husband held the matrimonial home on trust for sale for himself and his wife in equal shares. The couple lived in the house. The husband and another man were in business with through a limited company, and guaranteed the its debts to the plaintiff, who obtained a default judgment against the husband under the … Continue reading Lloyds Bank plc v Byrne and Byrne: 1993

The court considered an assertion that a right of necessity was implied into a deed. Held: ‘In the present case the land conveyed was plainly intended to be used for building purposes, and of course it plainly needed access for building materials and for the occupants of the houses when constructed: yet there was the … Continue reading Nickerson v Barraclough (1): ChD 1980

The court held that under a mortgage by deposit under seal, a true equitable mortgage – that the expression ‘the mortgaged property’ in section 101 meant the property over which the mortgage deed purported to extend and was not limited to an equitable interest in that property. Judges: Wilberforce J Citations: [1964] Ch 483 Statutes: … Continue reading in Re White Rose Cottage: ChD 1964

The plaintiff sought to enforce a restrictive covenant against using a property ‘otherwise than as a private dwelling-house’. 30 years later the Defendant purchased the property and immediately started taking paying guests. The defendant had suggested that the covenants may be modified by the Lands Tribunal, but he made no application. Held: The area was … Continue reading Chatsworth Estates Company v Fewell: 1931

In the case of an application to remove or vary covenants for a property within a building scheme, there is ‘a greater onus of proof upon any applicants for the modification of covenants to show that the requirements of section 84 of the Act are satisfied.’ The court rejected a suggestion that ‘practical benefits’ were … Continue reading Gilbert v Spoor: CA 1983

A covenant required the purchasers to erect and maintain a chain link fence. Held: The covenant was a positive personal covenant between the original vendor and the original purchaser and was not a restrictive covenant. The Lands Tribunal declined jurisdiction to vary it under the section. Citations: (1962) 14 PLCR 56 Statutes: Law of Property … Continue reading Blythe Corporation’s Application: 1962

No general distinction is to be drawn between the two types of mortgage and sub-mortgage. The court considered the practice for a mortgagor to attorn tenant to his mortgagee. The tenancy contained no covenants and was merely a device to give the mortgagee a right to obtain summary judgment for possession under the Small Tenements … Continue reading Regent Oil Co Ltd v JA Gregory (Hatch End) Ltd: CA 1966