[2024] UKUT 15 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-334

ON APPEAL FROM THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT Ref: CHI/00HG/LSC/2022/0070-72

Royal Courts of Justice,

Strand,

London WC2A

16 January 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – liability of lessee under right to buy leases to contribute to cost of repairing roof – s.139 and Sch.6, para 14, Housing Act 1985 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

CRISPLANE LIMITED

Appellant

-and-

PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY HOMES LIMITED

Respondent

96 and 146 Rothesay Gardens,

Plymouth PL5 3TA

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

9 January 2024

Rawdon Crozier, instructed by Curtis Whiteford Crocker, for the appellant

Jonathan Ward, instructed by Tozers, for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36; [2015] AC 1619

City of London v Leaseholders of Great Arthur House [2021] EWCA Civ 431