Module 3 · Chapter 7

Alterations and Use

A tenant must change an empty floor before it can work there. The lease sorts every change into one of three routes, and it limits the business the tenant may run.

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In this chapter

  • Which changes a tenant may make, and by which route
  • What a licence for alterations records, and when the works come out
  • What business the tenant may run on the floor

7.1Alterations in one paragraph

A tenant has a lease of the floor, not the floor itself, so it may change the floor only as the lease allows. Any physical change is an alteration, from a partition to a new window. The lease forbids some alterations, allows others with the landlord's consent, and allows partitions on notice. A separate clause, the use clause, says what business the tenant may run there.

Key point

The routes follow the edge of what was let. Linnet may change the inside of its floor, with consent or on notice. It may never change the structure, the outside walls or the shared pipes and wires, because they were never let to it.

Also in this chapter

  1. Why a tenant needs to change the floor
  2. Three routes for an alteration
  3. The licence for alterations
  4. Taking the works out at the end
  5. Six alterations and their routes
  6. What business the tenant may run
  7. Your job

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