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Freeholder has to show refusal unreasonable

Language: English Series: Times ; 21 January 1994, 34(1)Publication details: 1994Subject(s): Summary: "Estates Governors of Alleyn`s College v Williams", Chd 14 January 1994, held that on an appeal by a freeholder to an arbitrator against the refusal, by the managers of a scheme approved by the court under Leasehold Reform Act 1967 s19, of consent to a proposed development, such consent being subject to a proviso that it `shall not be unreasonably withheld` it was for the freeholder to show that the refusal was one at which no body of managers, acting reasonably, could have arrived.

"Estates Governors of Alleyn`s College v Williams", Chd 14 January 1994, held that on an appeal by a freeholder to an arbitrator against the refusal, by the managers of a scheme approved by the court under Leasehold Reform Act 1967 s19, of consent to a proposed development, such consent being subject to a proviso that it `shall not be unreasonably withheld` it was for the freeholder to show that the refusal was one at which no body of managers, acting reasonably, could have arrived.