Royal Life Saving Society v Page [1978]

A doctor rented a maisonette as his residence. He asked the landlords for permission to carry on his profession from the residence and the landlords had agreed to this request. The doctor also rented separate consulting rooms in Harley Street.  Both addresses featured in the medical directory and both telephone numbers were listed on his stationary. The doctor only occasionally saw patients at the maisonette.  The landlords then served a notice to terminate the tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, and in subsequent possessions proceedings they alleged that the tenancy was governed by being used partly for business use

HELD: The trial jusge decided in this case that the business or professional use was only incidental to the residential use and the tenancy should rightly operate as a residential tenancy.
This decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal.

Citation: Royal Life Saving Society v Page [1978] 1 WLR 1329