LTNman
I think you will find that in every case where SEN has changed hands in recent decades it has just been a matter of assigning the Lease by the then Leaseholder to the new 'buyer', which Southend Council doesn't have the right to 'unreasonably' refuse under English leasehold law. There has been no opportunity for the Council to amend the Lease and they have only been able to introduce night movement restrictions etc. through the planning system. They are unable to impose a 'passenger fee' unless the Leaseholder were to agree an amendment to the Lease to that effect, so really the Council should not be blamed.