[2025] UKUT 281 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-131

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

Ref: CHI/29UN/HNA/2024/0015

19 August 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – First-tier Tribunal’s discretion to extend time for appeal – whether refusal to extend time was disproportionate to the severity of the default - Denton v TH White Ltd [2014] 1 WLR 3926 and the considerations to which the First-tier Tribunal should have had regard

BETWEEN:

MR RAFIUL ISLAM

Appellant

-and-

THANET DISTRICT COUNCIL

Respondent

19 Westcliff Road,

Margate,

Kent, CT9 5DN

Judge Elizabeth Cooke

Determination by written representations

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The following cases were referred to in this decision:

BPP Holdings v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2017] 1 WLR 2945

Denton v TH White Ltd [2014] 1 WLR 3926

Jalay Enterprises Ltd v Ramsdale [2023] UKUT 247 (LC)