Business Tenancies Consultation Paper 1

Closes 19 Feb 2025

Opened 19 Nov 2024

Overview

This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales.

Our wide-ranging review will consider in detail how the right to renew business tenancies, set out in Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, is working and will consider options for reform.  This is the first of two planned consultations. 

For more information about this project, click here.

We recommend that consultees read the consultation paper before responding to the consultation. A shorter summary is also available. Consultees do not need to answer all the questions if they are only interested in some aspects of the consultation.

Once you have completed your consultation response, we would be grateful if you could complete a short survey to help us understand the operation of the 1954 Act in the current commercial leasehold market: business tenancies survey. Your answers will be held and analysed separately to your consultation response.  

About the Law Commission: The Law Commission is a statutory body, created by the Law Commissions Act 1965 (“the 1965 Act”) for the purpose of promoting the reform of the law. It is an advisory Non Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The Law Commission is independent of Government. For more information about the Law Commission please click here.

Responses to this consultation: We may publish or disclose information you provide us in response to this consultation, including personal information. For more information on how we consult and how we may use responses to the consultation, please see page ii of the consultation paper. For information about how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy notice.

Respond to our consultation

Events

  • In-person events

    From 19 Nov 2024 at 00:00 to 19 Feb 2025 at 00:00

    Please see our website for details of our in-person events: https://lawcom.gov.uk/project/business-tenancies-the-right-to-renew/.

  • Law Commission Consultation on Business Tenancies - Online Event

    From 9 Dec 2024 at 12:00 to 9 Dec 2024 at 13:00

    Attend this virtual event to hear about the first consultation paper on business tenancies, focussing on models of reform of the 1954 Act. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1079183329389?aff=oddtdtcreator

  • Law Commission Consultation on Business Tenancies - Online Event

    From 4 Feb 2025 at 18:30 to 4 Feb 2025 at 19:30

    Attend this virtual event to hear about the first consultation paper on business tenancies, focussing on models of reform of the 1954 Act. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1079179357509?aff=oddtdtcreator

Audiences

  • Businesses
  • Citizens
  • Voluntary organisations
  • Local authorities
  • Litigants
  • Landlords
  • Voluntary organisations
  • Government departments
  • Legal professionals
  • Judiciary
  • Public listed company
  • Private limited company
  • Public sector
  • Think tanks
  • Academics
  • UK policy institutions
  • UK politicians
  • Journalists

Interests

  • Courts
  • Property