[2024] UKUT 384 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-811

AN APPLICATION UNDER SECTION 84 OF THE LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1925

3 December 2024

Priory Courts, Bull Street,

Birmingham B4 6DS

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – MODIFICATION – from private dwelling house to children’s care home – business use – s.84(1)(aa) and (c), Law of Property Act 1925 – application allowed

BETWEEN:

COVEN CARE HOMES LIMITED

Applicant

-and-

JAMES HOCKNEY (1) PAULINE LUDFORD (2)

DEREK BARTON (3) BARRY AND WENDY GERRY (4)

CHAD AND LEONA WEAVER (5) CHRISTOPHER AND HILLARY KNOWLES (6)

GURMEETS AND JAGDISH NIJJAR (7) JENNIFER DE COSTA (8)

BETTY ROBINSON (9) CHESTER GUILLOT (10)

ROBERT AND LYN HODGSON (11) ANDREW AND JULIA BOOTH (12)

SUSAN VAN ZYL (13) GEORGE KINGSLEY (14) MRS P HAWKINS (15)

Objectors

2 Redwing Close,

Hammerwich,

Burntwood WS7 OLD

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President and

Peter D McCrea OBE, FRICS FCIArb

28 November 2024

Andrew McKie, instructed directly, for the applicant

The objectors did not attend the hearing

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Alexander Devine Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45;[2020] 1 WLR 4783

Ridley v Taylor [1965] 1 W.L.R. 611