Howard de Walden Estates Ltd. v. Aggio and others; Earl Cadogan and another v. 26 Cadogan Square Ltd. – WLR Daily

Posted May 29th, 2007 in landlord & tenant, law reports by sally

Howard de Walden Estates Ltd. v. Aggio and others; Earl Cadogan and another v. 26 Cadogan Square Ltd. [2007] EWCA Civ 499 

“It was not within the contemplation of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 that the leaseholder of a long lease of a building, which included multiple flats and common parts, came within the expression “a qualifying tenant of a flat” in s 56(1) so as to be able to exercise a statutory right to acquire a new long lease of a flat in the leased building, and the landlord of such a leaseholder was not bound to grant a new long lease.

WLR Daily, 24th May 2007

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