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Although you can negotiate a reduction in the lease payments when you cannot get access, this does not go further and enable you to end the lease earlier. You will be liable for the lease until November. If it is possible to find a replacement tenant, you could do that and get them to take over the lease. The lease will have a clause which says that the landlord must accept a tenant who is suitable, if you wish to assign the lease to someone else. That would avoid you having to pay rental until the lease comes to an end