[2025] UKUT 298 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-352

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

Ref: LON/00AG/LSC/2023/0012

Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL

16 September 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

CATCHWORDS – BUILDING SAFETY – LEASEHOLDER PROTECTION – Sch 8, paragraph 8, Building Safety Act 2022 – relevant defect – cladding and cladding system – meaning of unsafe – qualifying lease – appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

ALMACANTAR CENTRE POINT NOMINEE NO.1 LTD (1)

ALMACANTAR CENTRE POINT NOMINEE NO.2 LTD (2)

Appellants

and-

PENELOPE DE VALK AND 12 OTHERS

(LISTED IN ANNEX 1)

Respondents

Centre Point House,

15A St Giles

High Street,

London,

WC2H 8LW

Judge Siobhan McGrath and Mrs D Martin TD MRICS FAAV

15-17 July 2025

Martin Hutchings KC and Harriet Holmes for the appellant, instructed by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Justin Bates KC and Mattie Green for respondents 1 – 10, instructed by Howard Kennedy LLP

Samir Amin for respondents 11 and 12, instructed by direct access

Simon Allison KC for respondent 13, instructed by Forsters LLP

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Adriatic Land 5 Limited v Long Leaseholders at Hippersley Point [2025] EWCA Civ 856

BDW Trading Ltd v URS Corporation Ltd [2025] UKSC 21

Inco Europe Ltd v First Choice Distribution [2000] 1 WLR 586

Irvine’s Estate v Moran (1992) 24 H.L.R. 1

Lehner v Lant Street Management Co Ltd [2024] UKUT 0135

McNutt v Transport for London [2019] EWHC 365

R (on the application of Maugham v Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire[2020] UKSC 46

R (on the application of N) v Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council [2014] EWHC 1918

R (The Good Law Project) v Electoral Commission [2018] EWHC 414 (Admin)

Rhine Shipping DMCC v Vitol SA [2024] EWCA 580

Triathlon Homes LLP v Stratford Village Development Partnership [2025] EWCA Civ 846