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March 2025

March 2025

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Valerie Holmes - Valerie Holmes Law Adverse Possession of Registered Land - Geraint Wheatley - Kings Chambers Business Lease Renewal - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training and Property Law UK Commercial Mortgage Lending - Nigel Clayton -...

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February 2025

February 2025

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Julie Davis, Head of Residential Property, and Lynn Wilkinson - LCF Residential. A Practical Guide to the Law of Parking in Great Britain - Iain G Mitchell KC - Tanfield Chambers Applications for First Registration - Ian Quayle -...

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January 2025

January 2025

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Dr Henry Crosby - Martello Boundary Disputes - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & PLUK Case Chasers Podcast Episode 4 - Andrew Butler KC - Tanfield Chambers & Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & PLUK Commercial Property -...

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December 2024

December 2024

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Georgina Muskett - Charles Russell Speechlys LLP A Look Back at 2024 and Making Plans for 2025 - Clarke Edwards Partnership After Grenfell - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & Property Law UK An overview of Notices at detailed in...

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June 2025

June 2025

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Topics this month: Ask the Expert - Damien Todd - Sweeney Miller Brackets and Burdens - Andrew Butler KC - Tanfield Chambers Building Safety Levy - Nicole Priestley - Thomson Snell & Passmore Commons Registration Act 2006 - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training &...

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May 2025

May 2025

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Topics this month: Adverse Possession - Ian Quayle – IQ Legal Training & Property Law UK Are You Considering Your Career? Claire Louise Clarke & Lisa Edwards - The Clarke Edwards Partnership Ask the Expert - Ika Castka - Wilson Browne Solicitors Commercial...

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April 2025

April 2025

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Topics this month: Ask the Expert - Zahrah Aullybocus - Nexa Law Boundaries - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & Property Law UK Business Lease Renewal - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & Property Law UK Clarion Housing Association Ltd v Chitty [2024] UKUT 187...

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Commons Registration Act 2006

Section 15 of the Commons Act 2006 pertains to the registration of land as a town or village green. It outlines the conditions under which land can be newly registered as a town or village green, specifically when it has been used by local people for lawful sports and pastimes "as of right" for at least 20 years. The claimant was an academy school, which in 2011 was granted a long lease of land known as Stoke Lodge playing fields in north-west Bristol. The land was registered as a town green in 2023, after an application by the second defendant, who was a local resident under Section 15 of the Commons Act 2006.
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Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority [2025] UKSC 20

This case addresses the legal interpretation of public access rights within a national park in England. Specifically, it concerns whether members of the public are entitled to camp overnight on certain privately owned land—Dartmoor Commons—without the landowners’ permission, pursuant to Section 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985. The High Court initially ruled that Section 10(1) did not grant such a right. However, the Court of Appeal reversed this decision, finding that wild camping fell within the scope of the access rights conferred by the Act. The Supreme Court has now issued a definitive ruling in favour of the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), confirming that wild camping is a lawful form of recreation under the Act.
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Restrictive Covenants

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by a tenant seeking to discharge a restriction in a long lease under s.84(1)(aa) Law of Property Act. The decision of the Upper Tribunal was upheld, namely that the landlord’s ability to use restrictions to ensure that any redevelopment is appropriate and proceeds in an orderly and timely manner constitutes a practical benefit within the meaning of section 84(1)(aa).
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Restrictive Covenants

An application for the modification of a restrictive covenant to allow for the erection of an enclosed porch extension across part of a previously shared communal porch was refused. The covenant secured to the objector a practical benefit, and given that the objector had already been successful in obtaining an injunction to force the applicants to reinstate the extension, it was considered that the benefit could not be measured in monetary terms.
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