Depends on the lease and on the landlord actually bothering to investigate
What an absolute non story. Of course you can’t run a builders merchant out of your flat, but there is well established legal precedent that working from home or any other “administrative work” (as I think the legalese defines it) does not breach such leases
Disappointed in the Guardian. I’d expect such a bullshit article from the Telegraph/Mail/Express unholy trinity.
It’s people who run “public-facing” businesses from home that are likely to be caught up in this. It even says so in the article.
>“I think that if you’ve got somebody sitting at a laptop at their kitchen table, doing what they would normally be doing in their office, the chances of the landlord clamping down on that are probably quite slim,” he says.
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>“Once you get into the situation where people are doing something which is public-facing, with the result that customers start turning up at the property or the amount of traffic in the street increases, the business activity starts to become more visible, more intrusive. I think that is potentially a risk [for legal action].”
More to the point, in most cases how would the freeholder even know?
It would have to be a very petty landlord to try and mount legal action though. If it does not disturb anyone and does not cause damage then what is the issue? Landlords will just want the rent to keep coming in, if someone doing office work from home does that then there is no need to kick up a fuss over it.
>Leaseholders could face legal action for failing to follow the terms of the lease they signed.
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Depends on the lease and on the landlord actually bothering to investigate
What an absolute non story. Of course you can’t run a builders merchant out of your flat, but there is well established legal precedent that working from home or any other “administrative work” (as I think the legalese defines it) does not breach such leases
Disappointed in the Guardian. I’d expect such a bullshit article from the Telegraph/Mail/Express unholy trinity.
It’s people who run “public-facing” businesses from home that are likely to be caught up in this. It even says so in the article.
>“I think that if you’ve got somebody sitting at a laptop at their kitchen table, doing what they would normally be doing in their office, the chances of the landlord clamping down on that are probably quite slim,” he says.
>
>“Once you get into the situation where people are doing something which is public-facing, with the result that customers start turning up at the property or the amount of traffic in the street increases, the business activity starts to become more visible, more intrusive. I think that is potentially a risk [for legal action].”
More to the point, in most cases how would the freeholder even know?
It would have to be a very petty landlord to try and mount legal action though. If it does not disturb anyone and does not cause damage then what is the issue? Landlords will just want the rent to keep coming in, if someone doing office work from home does that then there is no need to kick up a fuss over it.
>Leaseholders could face legal action for failing to follow the terms of the lease they signed.
FTFY