The WLR Daily case summaries
[2020] WLR(D) 162
Court of Appeal
LM Homes Ltd and others v Queen Court Freehold Co Ltd
[2020] EWCA Civ 371
Lewison, Lindblom, Leggatt LJJ
2020 March 5, 13
Landlord and tenant— Leasehold enfranchisement— Tenants’ right to acquire reversion— Qualifying tenants’ notice to freeholder to exercise collective right to enfranchise— Tenants seeking to acquire leasehold interests in airspace, basement and sub-soil— Whether tenants so entitled— Whether areas demised by leases part of freehold “premises”— Whether areas demised by leases parts of “building”— Whether areas demised by leases “common parts”— Whether reasonably necessary for tenants to acquire leases “for ... proper management or maintenance of ... common parts”—
Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c 28), ss 2(3), 3(1), 101(1)