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UPDATE for September Edition

 

Usual target monthly deadlines Trawl – 15th ish of the month

Copy delivery date – 30th  of the month
Date of this trawl: 3rd August 2022
Deadline this month 2nd September 2022

 

 

Contents – topic areas

(Items in red have no topics in this month’s trawl)

 

  1. Business Lease Renewal
  2. Conveyancing Quality Scheme
  3. Easements
  4. Landlord & Tenant General
  5. Landlord & Tenant Residential Leases
  6. Mortgages
  7. Planning
  8. Property Litigation & ADR
  9. Property Transactions
  10. Residential Conveyancing General
  11. Service Charges & Right of first refusal
  12. Shared Ownership
  13. Restrictive Covenants

 

 

  1. Business Lease Renewal: Sarah Thompson-Copsey (stcjb@btinternet.com).

  2. Conveyancing Quality Scheme: Tracy Thompson ( tt@tracythompsonassociates.co.uk)

CQS Practice Management Standards

 

Overview of changes in effect from 1st May 2022

3. Easements: Zoe Upson  (zupson@hotmail.co.uk)

 

  1. Landlord & Tenant – General: Sarah Thompson-Copsey (stcjb@btinternet.com).

 

  1. Landlord & Tenant Residential Leases:

Katie Gray (katiegray@tanfieldchambers.co.uk)

Richard Alford (richardalford@tanfieldchambers.co.uk)

Edward Blakeney (edwardblakeney@tanfieldchambers.co.uk)

Obi-Ezekpazu v Avon Ground Rents Ltd and another [2022] UKUT 121 (LC)


New landlord not imputed with knowledge of tenant’s different address for notices

 

Building Safety Act 2022

 

Overview of the Act as enacted

 

Stonecrest Marble Ltd v Shepherds Bush Housing Association Ltd [2021] EWHC 2621 (Ch)

 

Where a lease provides a comprehensive scheme of repair and insurance, the court will not imply terms to cover any gaps in that scheme.

 

FirstPort Property Services Ltd v Settlers Court RTM Company Ltd & Ors (2022) UKSC 1

 

Where a Right to Manage is obtained under Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, this only extends to the ‘premises’ but not to any shared services on a wider estate or development

 

Northwood (Solihull) Ltd v Fearn & Ors (2022) EWCA Civ 40

 

Company landlords and signing notices

 

Mortimer v Eco Chic Ltd (County Court) (10 January 2022) (Tildesley J).

 

LRA 1967: holiday homes were “houses” for enfranchisement purposes

 

Croydon London Borough Council v Kalonga (2022) UKSC 7

Supreme Court considered the position on termination of ‘flexible tenancies’ – fixed term secure tenancies – during the fixed term

Procter v Procter and others [2022] EWHC 120

Joint tenant’s notice to quit rescinded for breach of fiduciary duty (High Court)

 

  1. Mortgages: Nigel Clayton (nclayton@kingschambers.com).

  1. Planning: Tom Graham (gaverstock@gmail.com)


Payne v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2021] EWHC 3334

The scope of a planning enforcement order in respect of a single use where there is a mixed use

VOA: CIL appeal decision: 20 residential dwellings, new builds and conversions (18 August 2021).

Dictionary definition given to “building” in regulation 40 of CIL Regulations 2010

 

R (Rights: Community: Action) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2021] EWCA Civ 1954

Challenge to permitted development rights and amendments to use classes order dismissed

Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc) (England) (Amendment) (No 3) Order 2021 (SI 2021/814)

An overview of the provisions

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-infrastructure-levy-appeal-decision-9-holiday-cottages

Holiday cottages fell within class C3 (dwellinghouses) and were liable for CIL

PINS: Appeal decision: APP/U5360/C/20/3265866

Property guardians’ occupation of public house was material change of use

 

  1. Property Litigation & ADR: James Ballance (jballance@maitlandchambers.com)

Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley & Co Ltd [2022] EWHC 1813 (TCC)

Design and build contractor liable for cladding defects

 Chandler v Lombardi [2022] EWHC 22 (Ch)

High Court considers whether gift of property by LPA attorney was void or voidable

Brook Homes (Bicester) Limited v Portfolio Property Partners Limited and Others [2021] EWHC 3015 (Ch)

High Court decision suggests that ‘all reasonable endeavours’ goes well beyond reasonable endeavours

Prime London Holdings 11 Ltd v Thurloe Lodge Ltd [2022] EWHC 303 (Ch)

Access order made under Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992

 

Power and another v Shah [2022] EWHC 209 (QB)

“No notice, no Act” mantra prevails in party wall disputes

 

White & another v Amirtharaja & another [2022] EWCA Civ 11

Adverse Possession appeal

Milton Keynes Council v Wilsher and another [2022] EWHC 578 (QB).

Successful claim to farmland by adverse possession

 

EE Ltd and another v Stephenson and another [2022] UKUT 180 (LC)

UT  determined the terms of a lease renewal of an electronic communications site under Part 5 of the 2017 Electronic Communications Code

 

  1. Property Transactions: [Property sale contracts (including options, overage, s2 etc) and conveyancing (completion, Land Registry etc).] Peta Dollar (peta@petadollar.co.uk)

Pretoria Energy Company (Chittering) Ltd v Blankney Estates Ltd [2022] EWHC 1467 (Ch)

High Court concluded that a signed document titled “Heads of Terms of Proposed Agreement” did not create a legally binding lease agreement.

 

Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022

Summary of the impact of the UK register of overseas entities on property transactions & land Registration

 

  1. Residential Conveyancing General : Sarah Dwight (sarah@sarahdwight.com)

 

Land Registry Practice Guide Updates

  • Devolution on the death of a registered proprietor (PG6);
  • Price paid or value information: registration procedures (PG7);
  • Powers of attorney and registered land (PG9);
  • Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests (PG19);
  • Requisition and cancellation procedures (PG50);
  • Easements (PG62);
  • Rentcharges( PG56)
  • Electronic signatures (PG82)
  • Evidence of identity: conveyancers (PG67).

 

 

RICS Guidance on Knotweed

https://www.rics.org/globalassets/rics-website/media/upholding-professional-standards/sector-standards/real-estate/japanese-knotweed-and-residential-property-1st-edition-feb-2022.pdf

 

 

New Homes Quality Code published

https://www.consumercodefornewhomes.com/

 

  1. Shared Ownership: David Keighley

 

  1. Service Charges & Property Management:

Katie Gray (katiegray@tanfieldchambers.co.uk)

Richard Alford (richardalford@tanfieldchambers.co.uk)

Edward Blakeney (edwardblakeney@tanfieldchambers.co.uk)

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforming-the-leasehold-and-commonhold-systems-in-england-and-wales

Consultation on reform of enfranchisement and the right to manage

 

13 Restrictive Covenants: Emma Humphreys, (emma.humphreys@crsblaw.com)

 

 

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