Commercial Leases · glossary
A landlord's claim for the tenant's failure to repair. The schedule of dilapidations is the surveyor's itemised list, and the tenant pays the cost of preparing it (clause 5.10). Damages for disrepair cannot exceed the fall in the value of the landlord's property (section 18(1) of the 1927 Act). Chapter 6 · see Schedule of condition, Repairing covenant
Explained in Chapter 6, Repair and the Schedule of Condition, of Commercial Leases.
Suppose nobody had taken the photographs, and the first draft had been signed as it stood. When Linnet leaves, Fellgate's surveyor lists every item below good repair: the carpet tiles, the stained ceiling, a cracked worktop. That list is a schedule of dilapidations, the landlord's itemised claim for the tenant's failure to repair. Linnet pays the reasonable cost of preparing it (clause 5.10).Read Chapter 6, Repair and the Schedule of Condition →
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