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Land and buildings: freehold and leasehold disputes, landlord and tenant (commercial and residential), conveyancing, easements and restrictive covenants, mortgages, land registration, and property-related planning disputes.
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The claimant, Sam Smith, sought planning permission from South Kesteven District Council to change the use of agricultural land at Valley Lane, Long Bennington, to a gypsy caravan site with 13 pitches. The site lies between the…
LendInvest Security Trustees Limited, the claimant, is part of a lending group. On 10 May 2022 another group company, LendInvest Developments Suffolk Limited, lent money to Granville Property Solutions Limited (the Company). That…
The dispute concerned about a third of an acre of land at Mangrove Cay, Andros, in The Bahamas. The land is a short access road ending in a cleared area. On it stand two water storage tanks and associated apparatus belonging to…
The claimant, Etopia Eastry Limited, has since 6 September 2021 been the registered proprietor of freehold land lying to the west of Gore Lane, a public highway running to the west of Eastry Church of England Primary School at…
Mr Dieu Quang Tran and Mrs Phung De Tran are the joint owners of 167 Stanley Road, Cheadle, a substantial five bedroom detached house of around 325 sq m standing in a plot of about 0.42 acres. Stanley Road runs parallel to the…
The claimant lives at Manor House in the hamlet of Long Thurlow, Suffolk; the interested party lives in the adjoining property, Cadogan House. Badwell Ash Parish Council, whose area covers both Long Thurlow and the village of…
Somerset Council, the local planning authority, applied for a final injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in respect of land adjoining 6 Oxen Lane, North Curry, Somerset, occupied as a…
The Rogano was one of the oldest and most celebrated restaurants in Glasgow, first trading in 1874 and operating continuously at 11 Exchange Place from 1935 until it closed in 2020 during the Covid-19 restrictions. Forthwell…
Rodmersham Parish Council challenged Swale Borough Council's grant of planning permission to Voltalia UK Limited for a 65-hectare solar farm at Pitstock Farm, Pitstock Road, Rodmersham, comprising ground-mounted photovoltaic…
RAF Swinderby in Lincolnshire closed in 1993 and its site became the village of Witham St Hughs. A community building known as 'The Ark' stood in a cul-de-sac to the northeast of the village. Rysa Lodge Residential Properties…
The Old Chiswick Protection Society, a charitable trust founded over 50 years ago to preserve features of historical, architectural and artistic interest in or near Old Chiswick, challenged the London Borough of Hounslow's…
Gladman Developments Limited applied for planning permission for up to 250 dwellings on agricultural land at the edge of Faversham, Kent. Most of the site lay in Flood Zone 1, but parts lay in Flood Zones 2 and 3, and it was not…
Mr Paul Sallis applied to HM Land Registry under schedule 6 of the Land Registration Act 2002 to be registered as proprietor of land on the north side of The Chase, Rush Green, Romford, comprising a lake and surrounding land…
Mr and Mrs Glynn are the registered proprietors of 144 Hollin Lane, Middleton, Manchester, holding the leasehold title purchased in July 1981 and, in Mr Glynn's sole name, the freehold title purchased in April 2018. They applied…
The applicant, Dabir Nozrul Islam Ahmed, applied to HM Land Registry on 19 October 2024 for Form A restrictions on two east London titles — 6 Bristol Road and 112 Strone Road — asserting a beneficial interest under trust deeds…
The applicant, Tanya May Davies, is the registered proprietor of 34 High Street, Aberystwyth, and of the first and second floors of the adjoining land, which the respondents transferred to her in 2005. The respondents, David Gary…
The Properties in question are 2 Hawarden Avenue, Wallasey and 6 Knaresborough Road, Wallasey, registered since 1997 and 2005 respectively in the joint names of twin brothers Nicholas James Coombes and Andrew Kenneth Coombes. 2…
The applicant, Helene Margaret Ball, is the registered proprietor of 10 George Road, Matlock, whose rear garden backs on to a car park owned by Derbyshire County Council. She applied to HM Land Registry, on an application treated…
The dispute concerned two Bradford properties within one family: 2 Beechwood Grove, the family home registered under title number WYK223899, and 106 Canterbury Avenue, a rental property registered under title number WYK97066. The…
The applicant, Ellen Michelle Short, applied to HM Land Registry in November 2022 for registration as proprietor of two parcels of land at the rear and side of 54 Elm High Road, Wisbech, on the basis of adverse possession. The…