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Freehold owners of land generally believe that, subject to planning permission, they can develop their properties in whatever way they wish. However, as a High Court ruling strikingly showed, that...
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Restrictive covenants that forbid property owners from causing annoyance, nuisance or disturbance to their neighbours commonly appear in title deeds – but how are they to be interpreted? In the...
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When buying land it is vital to have a full understanding of any restrictions on the use to which it can be put. In a striking case on point, a...
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Finding your way around the intricacies of the planning system without professional advice is, for most people, a near impossibility. The point was powerfully made by the case of a...
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Apparently trifling neighbours’ disputes over a few inches of land have a nasty habit of taking on the proportions of a state trial, with legal costs to match. That was...
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Absentee or non-resident tenants who do not leave their landlords with a forwarding address place themselves in acute legal danger. In one case, a tenant who failed to take that...
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