[2025] UKUT 64 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-619

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

FTT Ref: CHI/43UB/LVT/2023/0006

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

25 February 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – VARIATION OF LEASES – whether lease failed to make satisfactory provision for repair of extension constructed by previous lessees – effect of implied surrender and regrant on repairing obligations and extent of demise – s.35, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 – appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

WEYCROFT WEYBRIDGE LIMITED

Appellant

-and-

MR IAN WILSON

MRS JILL WILSON

Respondents

Weycroft, 78 Portmore Park Road,

Weybridge

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

11 February 2025

Mr Michael Mullin, instructed by OWC Solicitors, for the appellant

Mr Richard Clarke, instructed by W. Davies, Solicitors, for the respondents

© CROWN COPYRIGHT 2025

The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Brickfield Properties Ltd v Botten [2013] UKUT 133 (LC)

Cornish v Cleife [1864] 3 H. & C. 446

Friends Provident Life Office v British Railways Board (1997) 73 P & CR 9

Jenkin R Lewis v Kerman [1971] Ch. 477