ABSTRACT
A landlord can only oppose the tenant’s application for a new tenancy on one or more of the grounds of opposition contained in s 30(1) of the 1954 Act. In order to be able to rely on any of these grounds the landlord must state the relevant ground or grounds in either a s 25 notice or a s 26(6) counternotice. It is open to a successor in title to rely on a ground put forward in the appropriate notice by a predecessor in title (Wimbush (AD) and Son v Franmills Properties [1961] Ch 419; Morris Marks v British Waterways Board [1963] 3 All ER 28, CA).
