Tribunals · City of Westminster · 2017 rating list

1-3, Chepstow Road, W2 5BL

Shop and Premises Decided 19 November 2020 CHG100046554 Altus Group - Oakland - Manchester

OutcomeDismissedThe appeal failed, leaving the value at the figure the Valuation Officer had already conceded.

Original RV£70,500£800/m²

Ratepayer sought£52,000

VO conceded first£55,500−21% before the hearing

Tribunal decided£55,500£800/m²

Figures are as stated in the decision; a dash means the document does not state that figure.

What was argued and what the tribunal found

The appellant, trading as Infusion Haberdashery, challenged the rateable value of a shop on Chepstow Road, London, proposing £52,000 based on a 30% width-to-depth allowance. The tribunal considered comparable rental evidence from similar properties in the locality which supported a zone A rate of £800 per m2, and found that this base rate was not excessive. Although the tribunal acknowledged the shop's individual characteristics (isolated, ageing, underneath residential flats, set back behind pillars), it found no substantive evidence to increase the width-to-depth allowance from the 20% already adopted at the challenge stage, and therefore dismissed the appeal.

Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was an individual ratepayer, represented.