[2024] UKUT 218 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-148

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

FTT ref: MAN/00BY/HIN/2021/0013

30 July 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – IMPROVEMENT NOTICE – FTT unable to determine whether work specified in improvement notice was required – whether entitled to substitute investigative work and require compliance with third party recommendations – whether improvement notice may require replacement of building components not shown to be defective – ss. 2, 12, 13, and Sch. 1, Housing Act 2004 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

BRYAN G CURD

(trading as Glenwood Property Investments)

Appellant

-and-

LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL

Respondent

Re: 55 Kenmare Road, Wavertree, Liverpool L15

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

Liverpool Civil, Family and Tribunals Centre

18 July 2024

Mr Bryan Curd in person

MrBrynmorAdams, for the respondent

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The following case is referred to in this decision:

Hussain (Nasim) and others v Waltham Forest LBC [2023] EWCA Civ 733