Collins v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd
Series: Estates Gazette ; [2002] 34 EG 86-90(5)Publication details: 2002Subject(s): Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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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.