[2025] UKUT 204 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-000030

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

FTT Reference: 2022/0562

The Rolls Building

7 Rolls Buildings

Fetter Lane

London

EC4A 1NL

26th June 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LAND REGISTRATION – EASEMENTS – claim to the acquisition of a right of storage by prescription – appeal against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal that the right claimed would have left the Respondent without any reasonable use of the servient land for the period of eight months in each year when the right would have effect – whether the First-tier Tribunal had been wrong in this decision - appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

PETER NIGEL JOSEPH STENNER

Appellant

and-

TEIGNBRIDGE DISTRICT COUNCIL

Respondent

Land and Buildings at The Den,

Teignmouth, Devon

The President, Mr Justice Edwin Johnson

10^th June 2025

Peter Petts, instructed by Spencer West LLP, for the Appellant

Steven Ball, instructed by Head of Legal Services, Teignbridge District Council, for the Respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Dyce v Hay (1852) 1 Macq 305

Wheeldon v Burrows (1879) 12 Ch D 31

Attorney General of Southern Nigeria v John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd [1915] AC 599

Wright v Macadam [1949] 2 KB 744

Copeland v Greenhalf [1952] Ch 488 [1952] 1 All ER 809

London & Blenheim Estates Ltd v Ladbroke Retail Parks Ltd [1992] 1 WLR 1278 [1993] 1 All ER 307

Batchelor v Marlow [2001] EWCA Civ 1051 [2003] 1 WLR 764

P&S Platt Ltd v Crouch [2003] EWCA Civ 1110

Montrose Court Holdings Ltd v Shamash [2006] EWCA Civ 251

Moncrieff v Jamieson [2007] UKHL 42 [2007] 1 WLR 2620

Virdi v Chana [2008] EWHC 2901 (Ch)