[2025] UKUT 00078 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-29

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

FTT Ref: AGR/LON/00BJ/0LR/2023/0836

7 March 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT – FLAT – premium for extended lease – absent landlord –whether development value of completed loft conversion should be included in the premium – whether it should be deferred until the reversion – paras. 3 and 5, Sch. 13, Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

GARY EDWARD HANSON (1)

JULIE HANSON (2)

Appellants

-and-

DESMOND THEORORE HARDING (1)

PONNUDURAI BALENDRAN (2)

UMAKANTHI BALENDRAN (3)

Respondents

36 Charlmont Road,

London,

SW17 9AJ

Mrs Diane Martin TD MRICS FAAV

Determination on written representations

Mr Sam Madge-Wyld, instructed by Buckles Solicitors, for the appellants

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Earl Cadogan v Sportelli [2007] 1 EGLR 153

Watton v The Trustees of the Ilchester Estates (2002) LRA/21/2001 (unreported);