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Boundaries and adverse possession
Adverse possession
Acknowledgement of title
Adverse possession and Pye v Graham
Consent
Criminal offence
Estoppel
Highways
Human rights
Land Registration Act 2002
Other miscellaneous points on adverse possession
Adverse possession
Boundary agreements
Deeds, plans and boundary features
Experts
Presumptions
T-marks
Tidal waters
Trees and hedges
Business lease renewal
Compensation
Contracting out
Does the Act apply?
Easements on renewal
Electronic Communications Code
Ground (b)
Ground (c)
Ground (f)
Ground (g)
Insolvency of landlord
New lease terms (other than rent and duration)
Registration of claim
Rent and duration
Section 25 notices
Section 26 requests
Surrender
Co-ownership and estoppel
Proprietary estoppel
Assurance and reliance - Thorner
Yeomans Row v Cobbe
Equitable accounting
Laches and estoppel
Legal and beneficial ownership
Orders for sale
Pallant v Morgan
Partnership
Proprietary estoppel
Quistclose trust
Satisfying the equity
Conveyancing Quality Scheme
Easements
Right to light
Damages
Excluding the right
Injunction?
Abandonment
Construing rights of way
Extent of grant
Extinguisment
Fencing
Gardens
Implied and s62
Increasing the burden
Parking and mooring
Prescription
Repair to right of way
Sporting and recreational rights
Substantial interference
Landlord and tenant (general)
Break clauses
Material compliance and breaches
Notices
Repayment of rent
Vacant possession
Consents
Alterations
Change of use
Conditions
Landlord's response
Reasonable refusal
Tenant's request
Underletting
Dilapidations
Breach
Damages and s18 cap
Double Value claim
Landlord's obligation
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Schedules and notices
Forfeiture
Other cases
Overlapping demise
Registration gap
Relief
Rent claims
Section 146 notices
Settlement and discontinuance
Surrender by agreement (conditional)
Unlawful forfeiture
Waiver
Rent review
Arbitration
Construction
Presumption of reality
Rent review notices
Time of essence
Assignment
Break clauses
Chattels and fixtures
Consents
Construction of lease terms
Dilapidations
Disclaimer
Forfeiture
Frustration of lease
Mobile Homes and Caravans
Insolvency
L & T (Covenants) Act 1995
Lease or licence?
Merger
Mutual enforceability of covenants
Miscellaneous
Civil and Tribunal procedure
Electric Charging Points
Execution by companies
Guarantees and indemnities
Nuisance
Penalty clauses
Rent
Rent review
Restraint of trade
Service charges and insurance (general)
Conveyancing Quality Scheme
Subletting, sharing possession or occupation
Surrender by operation of law
Tenancy at will
Turnover Leases
Uncertain term
Unlawful eviction
Long leases
Enfranchisement
Dwelling?
Forfeiture - s168
House?
Insurance
Notices
Terms of the transfer
Unfair contract terms
Valuation
Enfranchisement
Manager under 1987 Act
Mobile homes and caravans
Right of first refusal
Right to manage
Service and administration charges
Variation of lease terms
Miscellaneous
Civil and Tribunal procedure
Electric Charging Points
Execution by companies
Guarantees and indemnities
Mobile Homes and Caravans
Mortgages
Mortgage possession
Assignee of charge
Costs
Counterclaim and set-off
Discrimination defences
Receivers
Redemption
Time to sell
Exoneration
Facility agreement
Forgery
Interest
Limitation and shortfall
Marshalling
Mortgage possession
Negligence and loans
Subrogation
Tenants of mortgagees
Undue influence
Nuisance and trespass
Damages - account of profits
Defects in neighbouring property
Defences
Fire
Japanese Knotweed
Occupation by licensee
Overlooking
Self-help
Trees
Trespass
Water
Planning
Change of use
Children
Compensation
Compulsory purchase
Conditions
Deceit
Development plans
Environmental
Green Belt
Party walls
Permission
Policy
Possession claims
Human Rights Act defences
Weaver
Appeals
Bankruptcy
Cause of action estoppel
Discrimination defences
Homeless persons
Protection from Eviction Act
Public Sector Equality Duty
Setting aside orders and warrants
Suspending warrants
Trespassers
Warrants
Property litigation
Compromise
Damages in lieu of injunction
Declaration
Tomlin orders
Tribunal jurisdiction and procedure
Without prejudice
Property transactions
Charities
Completion
Contract
Deposits
Fixtures
Fixtures and Fittings
Forgery
Fraud
Land Registration Reform
Misrepresentation and answers to enquiries
Options
Overage
Perpetuities
Planning obligations
Positive covenants
Reasonable endeavours
Rectification of register
Registration
Rent charges
Title
Vendor's lien
Writing - s2 of 1989 Act
Public access to land
Town and village greens
Human rights
Relationship to planning
Commons
Right to roam
Town and village greens
Residential tenancies
Anti-social behaviour
Committal
Injunctions under 1996 Act
Possession orders
Disrepair claims
Costs in disrepair cases
Damages for disrepair
Defective Premises Act
Flexible tenancies
Liability of landlord
Notice of disrepair - s11
Anti-social behaviour
Assured shortholds - s21 notices
Assured tenancies
Boats
Disrepair claims
Electrical safety standards
Introductory tenancies
Licences
Notice to quit
Proceeds of crime
Rent Act 1977
Right to buy
Secure tenancies
Solicitors Practice Points
Tenant Fees Act
Tenant's notice to quit
Unlawful eviction
Restrictive covenants
Benefit of covenants
Burden
Consent to development
Enforcing covenants
Interpretation - breach
Modification and discharge
Overage
Variation under s610 of 1985 Act

Planning

Please see the section contents on the left to find the topic that is of interest to you.

A very useful website dealing with planning is the Planning Portal, which is the “UK Government’s Online planning and building regulations resource for England and Wales.”

For a helpful website dealing with planning and enforcement appeals procedure go to The Planning Inspectorate site.

In relation to Permitted Development the principal Order is the The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, which is amended from time to time. Details of amendments can be found on the Planning Portal, which is the “UK Government’s Online planning and building regulations resource for England and Wales.” However, it is necessary to be careful as it is not always fully up to date.

A number of local planning authorities also have useful summaries of the current position in relation to permitted development. For example, see the site of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

Green Belt

"Openness" Visual concept? R (on the application of Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster)) v North Yorkshire County Council [2020] UKSC 3 Summary "Openness" of the Green Belt is not an essentially visual concept. Facts The appellant, the local planning authority,...

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Conditions

Interpretation No "ejusdem generis" rule R. (on the application of XPL Ltd) v Harlow Council [2016] EWCA Civ 378 Summary The Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of planning conditions and that the statutory presumption -ejusdem generis- did not apply to...

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Environmental

This page has case reports dealing with Environmental impact assessments: The test for whether or not a proposed development required an Environmental Impact Assessment was considered. EIA: The correct approach to take to screening opinions when a proposed development...

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Permission

This page has cases dealing with: Modification or revocation - financial implications - Supreme Court Outline permission - "hybrid" applications "Detailed planning permission" Approval of reserved matters - new application? Multiple permissions Some of these cases...

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Policy

Supply of housing NPPF para 49 - meaning of "relevant policies for the supply of housing" Suffolk Coastal DC v Hopkins Homes [2016] EWCA Civ 168 Summary After many conflicting High Court judgments on the issue, the Court of Appeal ruled on the correct meaning of...

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Compensation

Refusal of planning permission - compensation Purchase notices Herefordshire Council v White [2007] EWCA Civ 1204 Introduction Section 137(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 provides that, where an application for planning permission to develop land has been...

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Compulsory purchase

Assessment of compensation Effect of planning permission Transport For London (London Underground Ltd) V Spirerose Ltd (In Administration) [2009] UKHL 44 Summary This House of Lords judgment overturned both the Lands Tribunal and Court of Appeal judgments on how...

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Deceit

This page deals with two cases that superficially seem to raise the same issues. They both involve concealment of the use of a building for dwelling purposes. However, the outcome in each case was different - as the legal issue in each was different. True nature of...

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Development plans

Interpretation Plans to be determined objectively Tesco Stores Limited v Dundee City Council [2012] UKSC 13 Summary The meaning to be given to the key wording in a development is not a matter that can be left to the judgment of the planning authority. Nor is the...

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Change of use

Intensification of use Breaches of planning control Hertfordshire County Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2012] EWCA 1473 Summary Intensification of use is capable of constituting a material change of use. However, that was not the...

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