15 Church Close Braybrooke Market Harborough LE16 8LD CAM/34UF/RTB/2022/0001

FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL
PROPERTY CHAMBER (RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY)
Case No CAM/34UF/RTB/2022/0001
North Northamptonshire Council (landlord)Respondent
Mary Hardman FRICS IRRV(Hons)Lyn Ajanaku LLB, LLM, MCIArb, JPDate 28 June 2022Property: Church Close Braybrooke Market LE16 8LD

DECISION

For the reasons which follow the tenant’s appeal against the denial of their right to buy the property is allowed.

REASONS

[1]Elizabeth Branagh (‘the Applicant’) of 15 Church Close, Braybrooke, Market Harborough LE16 8LD (‘the Property’) is the tenant of North Northamptonshire Council (‘the Respondent’).[2]The Applicant made an application to the Respondent under the Right to Buy legislation in the Housing Act 1985 (‘the Act’) to buy the Property.[3]By Notice in Reply to the tenant’s right to buy claim (Form RTB2) dated 29 April 2022 the Respondent denied that they have the right to buy because paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the 1985 Act applies, viz a. that the property was first let before 1990