Alterations
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Landlords may have to consent to alterations to comply with Equality Act duties
Recent decision highlights how the Act applies where premises are let to tenants with disabilities
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The word “elevation” is not a term of art
Was it a breach of covenant to remove a rear window from a flat and replace it with a door?
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A provision in a lease permitting a tenant to make internal non-structural alterations enabled it to alter the landlord’s fixtures and fittings.
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust v Laindon Holdings Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 377 concerned a claim for terminal dilapidations in a lease of business premises. The agreement for…
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A landlord was not entitled to rely on a qualified covenant against alterations to resist changes that might be a forerunner to leasehold enfranchisement.
Can a landlord refuse a tenant’s application for permission to make alterations that could pave the way for the tenant to use the leasehold enfranchisement legislation to purchase the freehold…
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A handwritten amendment to a debenture, which was made after it was executed, did not invalidate it
A contract that is altered after it has been executed will be invalid if the alteration is material and has not been agreed by all of the parties: Pigot’s Case…
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PP 2013/107
Variation to leases Guarantors
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PP 2012/49
In Dudgeon Offshore Wind Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others [2012] EWHC 861 (Admin) the claimant successfully applied under section 288 of the Town…
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PP 2011/123
Alterations
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O’Brien (t/a Poster Sites Southern) v Harding (VO)
Rating – Alteration of list
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PP 2002/194
A delicate balancing act. Most practitioners are aware that when it comes to agreeing a tenant’s covenant against alterations the landlord has to weigh the benefits of retaining control against…