Davina Puran

Taking too much away - A tenant's failure to deliver vacant possession There are numerous cases concerning a tenant failing to deliver vacant possession due to leaving behind fixtures and fittings. In contrast, the High Court’s...

Opportunities for change – How landlords and tenants can repurpose their premises under the new Use Classes Order The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 came into effect on 01 September...

The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 came into effect on 01 September 2020 and amends the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (‘Use Classes Order’). The changes will provide...

A consideration of the recent High Court’s recent decision in Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd (2020) as to whether a tenant can refuse to pay a service charge on the basis that the expenses incurred by the landlord was...

Can a landlord of a block of flats give permission for a tenant to carry out alterations prohibited under that tenant’s lease, when it owes an obligation to the other tenants in the block to enforce that prohibition? Facts...

‘We’re all in this together’ is a sentiment widely shared in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A number of companies are turning their resources to providing services and products to key workers and to those in need. This note...

In our previous post titled, ‘ Covid-19 - What a commercial tenant needs to know about the eviction moratorium ’, we discussed the protection afforded to tenants under the Coronavirus Act 2020 against evictions for non-payment of rent. The...

The Coronavirus Act 2020 (‘the Act’) received royal assent on 25 March 2020. The emergency legislation now guarantees a three month moratorium against commercial landlords evicting business tenants, properly referred to as forfeiting a lease for...

Davina Puran, Paralegal in the firm's Property Development team, writes about the impact Community Infrastructure Levy (‘CIL’) has on small developers. This article first appeared in the Autumn 2018 edition of The Bill of...