LVT/0050/03/23: 2 Cromwell Houses, Abertillery
| Judgement Number | LVT/0050/03/23 |
| Year | 2023 |
| Date | 24 May 2023 |
| Court | Leasehold Valuation Tribunals |
| Subject Matter | Missing Landlord |
| Applied Rules | Leasehold Reform Act 1967 |
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RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TRIBUNAL (WALES)
LEASEHOLD VALUATION TRIBUNAL
Reference: LVT/0050/03/23
Applicant: Mr Jeffrey Peter Lewis and Mrs Ann Elizabeth Lewis
Respondent: Persons Unknown (Missing Landlord)
Property: 2 Cromwell Houses, Portland Street, Abertillery, NP13 1QH
Tribunal: Siân Westby (Tribunal Judge)
Johanne Coupe FRICS (Surveyor Member)
Reasons and Decision of the Residential Property Tribunal
1. The Tribunal determined that the appropriate sum to be paid into Court pursuant
Nine Pounds); £30.00 (Thirty Pounds) being the price payable in accordance with
section 9 of the Act and £9.00 (Nine Pounds) being the pecuniary rent payable
pursuant to section 27(5)(b) of the Act.
Background
2. The Applicants occupy 2 Cromwell Houses, Portland Street, Abertillery, NP13 1QH
(“the Property”) by virtue of a long lease dated 30 December 1899 made between
(1) James Emlyn Rhys and (2) Isaac Jones (“the Lease”) which relates to the
Property as well as other adjoining land. The Lease is for a term of 999 years
commencing on 1 May 1891 (not 1 May 1899 as stated in the Applicants’ witness
statement dated 25 May 2022).
3. The Applicants purchased the leasehold title of the Property in June 1971 by way
of an assignment dated 28 June 1971 made between (1) James Gordon and
Elizabeth Thomas and (2) the Applicants, under which a ground rent of £1.50 per
annum is payable.
4. The freehold of the Property is unregistered.
5. On 17 May 2022, the Applicants applied to the County Court at Blackwood seeking
a vesting order in respect of the freehold interest in the Property, pursuant to
section 27 of the Act, as the freeholder landlord is unknown.
6. On 15 September 2022, District Judge Andrews sitting in the County Court at
Blackwood ordered that the freehold interest in the Property be acquired by the
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