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035 _a(Sirsi) u16037
041 _aeng
245 _aSpook Erection Ltd v British Railways Board
260 _c1988
350 _a0
490 _aEstates Gazette
_v(8821) 28 May 1988, 73-74(2)
520 _aCA 29 February 1988. An appeal by tenants from a decision refusing an application for a new tenancy , the landlords (B) having opposed the application under Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 s30(1)(f) . B wished to redevelop the site, as a supermarket and had proposed to sell the site outright to supermarket operators, but the tenants were not willing to quit. The issue was whether B had established the necessary intention required by para (f). B decided to enter into a building agreement with the supermarket operators which provided for a 99-year lease to be granted on completion of the buildings. The tenants raised two points of objection: 1) the present transaction was tantamount to an outright disposal; 2) B`s intention at the date of service of the notice opposing the grant of a new tenancy was different from that held to be established at the date of the hearing. Both objections failed. Held that there was abundant material on which the judge was entitled to hold that the ground of
650 _aREDEVELOPMENT
690 _aLANDLORD AND TENANT-CASE LAW-BUSINESS TENANCIES
942 _n0
948 _c04/03/1997
999 _c10546
_d10546