Development: Putting it all together

Ann Ebberson highlights the importance of ascertaining rights of way and covenants before purchasing land for redevelopment ‘Unlike restrictive covenants, positive covenants do not run automatically with the land and there needs to be a mechanism in the title to ensure that such covenants pass on to successors in title.’ Acquiring land for development can …
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Covenants: Benefit and scope

Michael Gould considers the outcome of a Court of Appeal case concerning the benefit and scope of covenants ‘The covenant was aimed at activities on the burdened land as the source of the nuisance, such as fumes or smell or noise from an offensive trade or business, which may spread from and beyond the boundaries …
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