Collins v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd
Collins v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd
- 2002
- Estates Gazette [2002] 34 EG 86-90(5) .
CLCC 16 May 2002. Claimant (C) sought to enfranchise, under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, two adjoining mews houses held on a long lease. By the lease's provision the tenant was obliged to use the premises as a single, private dwelling house. The defendant landlord claimed the premises were not a house within the meaning of the 1967 act s2(1). Held, C was entitled to enfranchise as the mews was reasonably called a house and the fact that there was a separate self contained flat did not change the position.
COLLINS V HOWARD DE WALDEN ESTATES LTD
LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT
LEASEHOLD REFORM ACT 1967 S2(1)
ENTITLEMENT TO ACQUIRE
CLCC 16 May 2002. Claimant (C) sought to enfranchise, under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, two adjoining mews houses held on a long lease. By the lease's provision the tenant was obliged to use the premises as a single, private dwelling house. The defendant landlord claimed the premises were not a house within the meaning of the 1967 act s2(1). Held, C was entitled to enfranchise as the mews was reasonably called a house and the fact that there was a separate self contained flat did not change the position.
COLLINS V HOWARD DE WALDEN ESTATES LTD
LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT
LEASEHOLD REFORM ACT 1967 S2(1)
ENTITLEMENT TO ACQUIRE