[2025] UKUT 258 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-13

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

Ref: LON/00AR/MNR/2023/0424

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

6 August 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – RENT DETERMINATION – whether a lease was perpetually renewable so that a statutory periodic tenancy did not arise and so that the provisions of section 13 of the Housing Act 1988 were not applicable

BETWEEN:

PAUL ALEXANDER CONSTANTINE

Appellant

-and-

AARON SPENCER BIRD

Respondent

Apartment 4, Stirling House,

21-25 Station Lane,

Hornchurch,

Essex, RM12 6JL

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

Determination on written representations

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The following cases were referred to in this decision:

Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36

Caerphilly Concrete Products v Owen [1971] EWCA Civ 1

London District Properties Management Limited v Goolamy [2009] EWHC 1367 (Admin)

Marjorie Burnett v Barclay [1980] EWHC Ch 1

Parkus v Greenwood [1950] Ch 644