The applicant asserted that he had a right under the council’s policy to succeed to a council house tenancy granted to the appellant’s deceased, homosexual partner. The authority had a policy which would normally allow a survivor of a homosexual couple to take over a tenancy on the death of a partner. The authority doubted that he had lived with the deceased man for the year before his death.
Held: The council’s decision was not so unreasonable as to be capable of being set aside.
[1997] EWHC Admin 804
England and Wales
Housing
Updated: 03 January 2022; Ref: scu.137749
