“It was not within the contemplation of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 that the leaseholder of a long lease of a building, which included multiple flats and common parts, came within the expression “a qualifying tenant of a flat” in s 56(1) so as to be able to exercise a statutory right to acquire a new long lease of a flat in the leased building, and the landlord of such a leaseholder was not bound to grant a new long lease.”
WLR Daily, 24th May 2007
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