Cases - Adams v Green

Record details

Name

Adams v Green

Date

(1978)

Citation

247 EG 49, CA

Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

Keywords

Lease renewal - break clauses

Summary

The court ordered a new lease for a term of 14 years with a landlord's break clause exercisable at any time on 2 years' notice. While the premises were not 'ripe for development' in the sense that the landlords had no intention to develop the premises themselves and had produced no evidence of the viability of development, the possibility of the landlord or their successors in title wishing to carry out such future development was sufficiently likely to justify the inclusion of a break notice. Stamp LJ said that it was not the policy of the 1954 Act to give security to the tenant at the expense of preventing redevelopment.