Skeet and Another v Powell-Sheddon
Language: English Series: Estates Gazette ; (8840) 8 October 1988, 116-120(3)Publication details: 1988Subject(s): Summary: CA 19 May 1988. Appeal by tenants (S) from cc decision dismissing an application for a new tenancy of premises occupied as a private hotel and lodging house. The landlord (P) opposed the application under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 s30(1)(g), which provides that a landlord must show that he `intends to occupy the holding for the purposes... of a business to be carried on by him ...`. P, who lived outside London, intended to run the premises as a hotel with her husband, who would attend to day-to-day management, and her daughter. There was no suggestion that P would move into the premises herself. No formal partnership arrangements between P and her husband had been made. S contended that these proposed arrangements did not satisfy s30(1)(g), arguing that P would be occupying the premises through her husband as agent and was insufficient to show that P would be "carrying on a business" on the holding. CA rejected this submission. It was not necessary to show that P would physica| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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CA 19 May 1988. Appeal by tenants (S) from cc decision dismissing an application for a new tenancy of premises occupied as a private hotel and lodging house. The landlord (P) opposed the application under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 s30(1)(g), which provides that a landlord must show that he `intends to occupy the holding for the purposes... of a business to be carried on by him ...`. P, who lived outside London, intended to run the premises as a hotel with her husband, who would attend to day-to-day management, and her daughter. There was no suggestion that P would move into the premises herself. No formal partnership arrangements between P and her husband had been made. S contended that these proposed arrangements did not satisfy s30(1)(g), arguing that P would be occupying the premises through her husband as agent and was insufficient to show that P would be "carrying on a business" on the holding. CA rejected this submission. It was not necessary to show that P would physica