Sennadine Properties Limited v Heelis

The LVT (as it then was) had exceeded its jurisdiction by making a management order allowing the manager to re-let a commercial unit and to collect rent in respect of the same. It would have been preferable for the manager to approach the landlord for a contribution towards the costs of the provision of services in the first instance. The terms of management orders should be proportionate to the tasks which the tenants are entitled under their leases to ask the landlord to perform.