Skillion plc v Keltec Industrial Research Ltd
Skillion plc v Keltec Industrial Research Ltd
- 1992
- Estates Gazette (1992) 05 EG 162-166(4) .
ChD 19 June 1991. By a lease, dated 20 June 1985, between a London borough as landlord and the defendant, K, as tenant, premises in docklands were demised to K, for a term of 22 years at a rent subject to rent review provisions. General provisions included a limiting repairing covenant to keep the premises in a wind and watertight condition and a user covenant that held that certain areas were for the `research, development, testing, manufacture, repair and training in the use of engines, motors and components and mechanical devices together with ancillary office accommodation`. The issue which arose revolved around the requirement that the surveyor brought in the arbitrate should have regard to market rents subject to the provisions in the lease in particular to the user covenant. The plaintiff was successor in title to the lease, S, and wished to obtain a definition of `mechanical devices`. The question arose as to whether those were limited to apparatus for the provision of motive
GREENLAND DOCK
MECHANICAL DEVICES
RENT REVIEWS
RESTRICTED USE COVENANTS
USER COVENANTS
ChD 19 June 1991. By a lease, dated 20 June 1985, between a London borough as landlord and the defendant, K, as tenant, premises in docklands were demised to K, for a term of 22 years at a rent subject to rent review provisions. General provisions included a limiting repairing covenant to keep the premises in a wind and watertight condition and a user covenant that held that certain areas were for the `research, development, testing, manufacture, repair and training in the use of engines, motors and components and mechanical devices together with ancillary office accommodation`. The issue which arose revolved around the requirement that the surveyor brought in the arbitrate should have regard to market rents subject to the provisions in the lease in particular to the user covenant. The plaintiff was successor in title to the lease, S, and wished to obtain a definition of `mechanical devices`. The question arose as to whether those were limited to apparatus for the provision of motive
GREENLAND DOCK
MECHANICAL DEVICES
RENT REVIEWS
RESTRICTED USE COVENANTS
USER COVENANTS