LGRD & GRD FLRS, 33 BRITTON STREET, EC1M 5UG

What was argued and what the tribunal found

The appellant contended that the appeal property, occupied as a printing studio/workshop, should be valued in line with its actual mode or category of occupation rather than on an office basis. The tribunal found persuasive the expert evidence that the property had industrial characteristics (pressed tin flooring, three-phase power, industrial vents, warehouse area with roller shutters) and that converting it to office use would require more than minor alterations, offending the rebus sic stantibus principle. The tribunal adopted comparable workshop assessments on Britton Street at £130/m² to derive the correct valuation of £91,000 RV.

Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was A B C Imaging, represented.

Grounds argued

• Comparable assessments (tone)

Evidence

comparable_assessments, Photographs, rental_evidence

Cases cited

Scottish & Newcastle Retail Limited & Allied Domecq Retailing Limited v R F Williams (VO) RA-480-1993 (LT); Williams (VO) v Scottish & Newcastle Retail Ltd and another [2001] EWCA Civ 85; Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson (VO) [2018] UKUT 0253 (LC); Lotus and Delta v Culverwell (VO) and Leicester City Council [1976] RA 141; Fir Mill Ltd v Royton UDC and Jones (VO) [1960] R&IT 389

Hearing

10 June 2021

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