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Leasehold Reform Act 1967

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system of ownership is common, as long-term flat owners wish to gain a greater than 'transient' or 'time-barred' interest in their home. Such long leases were already in use in housing, as before purpose-built apartments were built, an aristocratic or other large capitalist landlord could co-steer
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An Act to enable tenants of houses held on long leases at low rents to acquire the freehold or an extended lease; to apply the Rent Acts to premises held on long leases at a rackrent, and to bring the operation of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 into conformity with the Rent Acts as so amended; to
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the successful, competitive development of their urban estates; these took the initial form of "building leases" then leases to allow the flexibility of the landlord deciding whether to create apartments, extensions, shorter-term lettings all of which liberties have been tempered by law or by
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make other changes in the law in relation to premises held on long leases, including amendments of the Places of Worship (Enfranchisement) Act 1920; and for purposes connected therewith.
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in London and £200 p.a. elsewhere (thus targeting low-to-middle income homeowners); the reform coincided with lower wages becoming less of a bar to access to loans from major
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The act grants the right to long leaseholders of houses let at low and moderately low rents to buy their homes compulsorily from their landlords at a fair price.
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lenders. The act has since been amended on a number of occasions to expand these rights, to homeowners having higher rateable values.
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entire properties, such as flats. The solution was to set up a standard model of any flat ownership based on
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Compulsory Purchase by Non-Ministerial Acquiring Authorities (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1990
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Initially the 1967 act applied only to homes below these rateable values: £400
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K Gray and S Gray, ‘Private Property and Public Propriety’, in J McLean (ed),
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continue the landlord-tenant relation with piecemeal reductions, across the
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Compulsory Purchase by Ministers (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1967
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Director of Buildings and Lands v Shun Fung Ironworks Ltd
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The dozen or so private great collections of reversions
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Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981
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