[2024] UKUT 193 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-748

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT REF: LON/00BE/LRM/2023/0038, LON/00BE/LRM/2023/0039, LON/00BE/LRM/2023/0040, LON/00BE/LRM/2023/0041

11 July 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – construction of the lease – remedying structural defects in the Large Panel System – meaning of covenant “to maintain” – significance of a “sweeper clause”

BETWEEN:

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS

Appellant

-and-

LESSEES OF BREWSTER HOUSE AND MALTING HOUSE

Respondents

Various properties at Brewster and Malting House,

London, E14

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

25 June 2024

Mr Justin Bates KC and Ms Mattie Green for the appellant, instructed by the appellant’s legal team

Ms Ellodie Gibbons for the respondents, instructed by Bishop & Sewell LLP

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Alker v Collingwood Housing Association Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 343

Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36.

Assethold Limited v Watts [2014] UKUT 537

City of London v Leaseholders of Great Arthur House [2019] UKUT 341 (LC) and [2021] EWCA Civ 341

Dell v 89 Holland Park Management Company Limited [2022] UKUT 169 (LC)

Fluor Daniel Properties Ltd and ors v Shortlands Investments Ltd [2001] 2 EGLR 103

Holland Park Management Company Limited v Dell [2023] EWCA Civ 1460

Mason v Totalfinaelf UK Limited [2003] EWHC 1604 (Ch)

Post Office v Aquarius Properties Ltd [1987] 1 All ER 1055

Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809

Welsh v London Borough of Greenwich [2000] 3 EGLR 41

Westbury Estates Ltd v The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc [2006] CSOH 177

Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24