Whether the refusal to a tenant of permission to apply for planning permission for change of use of premises was unreasonable. The covenant required the landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably. The landlord feared that this would lead to the tenant being able to apply to purchase the freehold.
Judges:
Sir Terence Etherton MR, McCombe, Lindblom LJJ
Citations:
[2018] EWCA Civ 765, [2018] Ch 603, [2018] 2 P and CR 16, [2018] WLR(D) 240, [2018] 2 P and CR DG1, [2018] L and TR 21, [2018] 3 WLR 1
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeaal from – Sequent Nominees Ltd (Formerly Rotrust Nominees Ltd) v Hautford Ltd SC 30-Oct-2019
The tenant promised in the lease not to apply for any planning permission without the consent of the landlord, not to be unreasonably withheld. The tenant wished to apply for planning permission for a change of use of part of the demised premises, . .
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Landlord and Tenant
Updated: 27 August 2022; Ref: scu.608727