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001			ABS38415
008			090401t1987 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) u10404
041			_aeng
245			_aR v Hammersmith and Fulham LBC, re Beddowe`s application
260			_c1987
350			_a0
490			_aRating & Valuation Reporter _v(1987) RVR 189-1099(11)
520			_aCA 31 July 1987 Appeal against the dismissal of an application for judicial review for certiorari to quash a decision by the council authorising the borough valuer to conclude the sale of Block A of a block of flats known as Fulham Court to Barratt on terms which included restrictive covenants on blocks B-J of the same estate. These covenants would have restricted the use of the blocks to residential, and, with some exceptions, to long leases at minimum premiums of 10,000. CA first considered whether the transfer was a reasonable exercise of housing powers and decided that it was, on the ground that the policy had been honestly reached as a way of dealing with what had become a most difficult estate to manage in its unrepaired state. It then examined the argument that the scheme of covenants illegally fettered a future council`s power to deal with the estate and held that if a local authority acting in good faith in the proper and reasonable exercise of its powers undertakes some bin
650			_aCOUNCIL HOUSING
650			_aHOUSING ESTATES
650			_aLOCAL AUTHORITIES
650			_aPRIVATE SECTOR
690			_aHOUSING-CASE LAW
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c6557 _d6557