Amy Chance

Expertise

Buying and selling freehold and leasehold properties in Prime Central London
Landlord and tenant matters including leasehold enfranchisement, acting for both landlords and tenants in individual and collective claims
Landlord and tenant matters in relation to the ongoing management of residential buildings
Real property issues including covenants, easements, rights of way and common land

Advised tenants with diminishing leasehold interest in Prime Central London property on how best to secure their interests where enfranchisement legislation did not apply
Advised on the conversion of mixed use premises in the West End into residential flats
Advised on the effect of the Highways Act 1980 and making applications to the council for the diversion of public footpaths and the creation of new public footpaths
Advised on the effect of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2002 and the rights afforded by the legislation to local inhabitants to make applications to register land as a town or village green
Advised on how best to protect interests in light of a looming application being made by local residents
Advising garden square committees in respect of their powers under the Kensington Improvement Act 1851 and 1863 and London Squares Preservation Act 1931
Advised a landlord of a large block of flats in Kensington on conveyancing issues relating from the reservation of development potential in a building being sold to the tenants under a collective enfranchisement claim