The Pubs Code: the reasonableness of "market rent only" offers

Jed Graham Meers

The Pubs Code: the reasonableness of "market rent only" offers

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Abstract

The Pubs Code has now passed its third birthday. This intervention into the arrangements between tied tenants and their powerful pub-owning companies has one core mission: to ensure that tied tenants are no worse off than non-tied tenants. To do so, it provides a right to trigger a “market rent only” offer, but the operation of the code has proven problematic in practice. This article focuses on the “reasonableness” of “market rent only” offers in the underpinning Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 and the accompanying Pubs Code Regulations 2016, and its interpretation by published decisions of the Pubs Code Adjudicator.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-8
Journal	Landlord & Tenant Review
Volume	42
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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