Camelot Property Management Ltd and Camelot Guardian Management Ltd v Greg Roynon (2017)
Bristol County Court, 24 February 2017
Bristol City Council engaged the services of Camelot Property Management Ltd to place ‘guardians’ in a former local authority care home. Mr Roynon, one of the guardians, had a written licence and paid a rent below the market rent. Mr Roynon occupied two rooms which only he had access to. He also had use of other facilities such as a communal kitchen and bathroom. When the management company served notice on Mr Roynon he refused to leave the property claiming that he was a tenant paying to live in a shared house.
As set out in
Street v Mountford [1985] the court will look beyond what the agreement is labelled as and take into account the occupation arrangement. The court found:
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