The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 10
Court of Appeal
Weintraub v Hackney London Borough Council
[2024] EWCA Civ 1561
2024 Dec 5; 13
Asplin, Males, Birss LJJ
Housing — Secure tenancy — Right to buy— Secure tenant ceasing to spend nights at property— Secure tenant applying to exercise right to buy lease of property with a view to returning to spending nights property as owner following renovation works— Local authority denying right to buy on grounds secure tenant not residing at property as only or principal home— Whether intention to return to property as owner satisfying statutory tenant condition for purposes of right to buy— Whether tenant having right to buy—
Housing Act 1985 (c 68), ss 81, 118