Terminal Dilapidations Defence Countrywide Surveyors, Burton upon Trent Bradley-Mason were engaged by Countrywide Surveyors in 2011 to defend a claim for damages on a high street estate agency premises. The claim had been served by the Landlord after the Lease had ended. The property was unusual because it had originally been occupied at the start of the Lease as a freezer centre and was later assigned to the estate agency with the rear areas used for internal storage and car parking. It was not possible to adopt our usual strategic approach of managing Dilapidations pre-lease expiry as the unit had already been yielded up to the Landlord prior to our involvement. We therefore focused our defence on the reasonableness of the Landlord’s claim

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