[2024] UKUT 33 (LC)

Case No: LC-2021-455

AN APPLICATION UNDER SECTION 84, LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1925

Royal Courts of Justice,

London WC2A

5 February 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS – PROCEDURE – jurisdiction – application to set aside order modifying leasehold covenants – order made without hearing in the absence of objection – application to set aside order – whether proceedings served on landlord – jurisdiction to modify alienation and keep open covenants – rule 54(1) Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal Lands Chamber) Rules 2010 – section 84(1), Law of Property Act 1925

BETWEEN:

BLACKHORSE INVESTMENTS (BOROUGH) LIMITED

Applicant

-and-

THE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

Objector

The Black Horse Public House,

254 Tabard Street,

London SE1

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

26 January 2024

Jonathan Upton, instructed by Bryan O’Connor & Co, for the applicant

Philip Rainey KC, instructed by Southwark Legal Services, for the objector

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Barclays Bank PLC’s Application, Re (1990) 60 P & CR 354

Blumenthal v Church Commissioners for England[2005] 1 EGLR 78

Blyth Corporation’s Application, Re (1962) 14 P & CR 56

Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd v Argyll Stores (Holdings) Ltd [1998] AC 1

Dart’s Application, Re (2006) LP/68/2005

Golding v Martin [2019] Ch 489 (CA)

Hickman & Sons, Ltd’s Application, Re (1951) 7 P & CR 33

Lee’s Application [2012] UKUT 125 (LC)

Milius’s Application, Re (1995) 70 P & CR 427

Nicholls v Kinsey [1994] QB 600

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council v Tanna [2017] 1 WLR 1970

Shaviram Normandy Ltd v Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council [2019] UKUT 256 (LC)

Stannard v Issa [1987] 1 AC 175 (PC)

Terry v BCS Corporate Acceptances Ltd & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 2422

Tibbles v SIG [2012] 1 WLR 2591

Westminster City Council v Duke of Westminster [1991] 4 All ER 136; (1992) 24 HLR 572 (CA)

Young Camiade’s Application [2023] UKUT 96 (LC)