Block Tenant Not Flat Tenant
Howard de Walden Estates Ltd v Aggio and others;
Earl Cadogan and another v 26 Cadogan Square Ltd
[2007] EWCA Civ 499
CA
Weekly Law Reports Summary
24 May 2007
It was not within the contemplation of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 that the leaseholder of a long lease of a building, which included multiple flats and common parts, came within the expression “a qualifying tenant of a flat” in s 56(1) so as to be able to exercise a statutory right to acquire a new long lease of a flat in the leased building, and the landlord of such a leaseholder was not bound to grant a new long lease.