[2025] UKUT 111 (LC)

On an application made before the expiry of his appointment by a manager appointed under Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, but determined by the First-tier Tribunal, Property Chamber (the FTT) after the date on which the appointment was due to expire, does the FTT have jurisdiction to vary the original management order by extending the period of the appointment?

In a decision issued in this case on 30 July 2024, the FTT considered that it did not have jurisdiction to “breathe new life” into a management order which had already expired by the time the decision was made. It therefore struck out an application made jointly by a tribunal appointed manager, Mr Kirk, and the representative of the residential leaseholders of Glossop Road Baths in Sheffield who had procured his appointment in 2021.

With the permission of the FTT, the appellants, Mr Kirk and Mr Sephton, now appeal the FTT’s decision. At the request of the parties, the appeal has been determined under the Tribunal’s written representations procedure.