Neighbours at war: court wades into cross-lease crossfire

Neighbours at war: court wades into cross-lease crossfire

Cross-lease households wanting to deny neighbours’ alteration plans face a stiffer legal test after confirmation that a 35-year-old judgment is too easy to invoke, and may be out of date. The Court of Appeal says arbitration interpretations since that earlier judgment, which assumed any alteration having more than a “trifling” effect on another cross-lessee’s property could be rejected, went too far. The decision is being seen as important in no…