Redbank Schools Ltd v Abdullahzadeh and others [1995]

A local authority with the power to manage a school did not have the power to grant tenancies. Redbank Schools was the leasehold owner of property under a 999 year lease. It used the property as a training school for delinquent boys, and on the school campus were dwellings intended to accommodate school staff and employees. The school had been used by Redbank as an approved school under a management committee, but from April 1973, the school became a controlled community home managed by Lancashire County Council pursuant to the Children and Young Persons Act 1969. About a third of the 160 teachers employed by the council were accommodated on or near the the campus, in property belonging to Redbank. It was later decided that the school should be run by the local Borough Council. After that date, the staff were employed by the county council school, and provided with accommodation. Each employee had exclusive occupation of their house or flat, occupied on a periodic basis, and each paid rent