The WLR Daily case summaries
[2011] WLR (D) 306
LANDLORD AND TENANT— Leasehold enfranchisement— Tenant’s right to acquire reversion— Additional right to enfranchisement in cases where tenancy not at low rent— — Underlease comprising house and grounds situated in rural park belonging to freeholder— — Tenant serving notice of desire to acquire freehold of house and grounds— — Freeholder disputing entitlement to enfranchise— — Whether underlease “excluded tenancy” — — Whether house alone, or house and grounds together, constituting “house which tenant occupies under tenancy”— — Whether park “adjoining land … not occupied for residential purposes”— — Leasehold Reform Act 1967, s 1AA(1)(3) (as inserted by Housing Act 1996, Sch 9, para 1 and amended by Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, s 141)