PART XVIII MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

Enforceability of covenants, &c.

610 Power of court to authorise conversion of premises into flats.

(1)

The local housing authority or a person interested in F1any premises may apply to the county court where—

(a)

owing to changes in the character of the neighbourhood in which the F2premisesF3are situated, they cannot readily be let as a single F3dwelling-house but could readily be let for occupation if converted into two or more F3dwelling-houses, or

(b)

planning permission has been granted under Part III of F4the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (general planning control) for the use of the F2premises as converted into two or more separate dwelling-houses instead of as a single dwelling-house,

and the conversion is prohibited or restricted by the provisions of the lease of the F2premises, or by a restrictive covenant affecting the F2premises, or otherwise.

(2)

The court may, after giving any person interested an opportunity of being heard, vary the terms of the lease or other instrument imposing the prohibition or restriction, subject to such conditions and upon such terms as the court may think just.