Apple Jacks Adventure Park, Stretton, WA4 4NW
Farm attraction and premises Decided 11 February 2021 CHG100119504 Mark Wasilewski
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellants argued the RV should be reduced from £35,000 to £5,000 based on receipts and expenditure (R&E) and contractor's valuations, contending that the VO's percentage of turnover approach had no legal basis. The tribunal found the R&E valuations problematic due to disputes over repair costs and partners' pay treatment, and preferred the VO's approach using comparable farm attraction assessments and settled appeals at 5.77-8% of FMT, finding the existing RV of £35,000 (at 4.6% of FMT) was not excessive and representing a reasonable hypothetical rent.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was an individual ratepayer, represented.
Grounds argued
- Trading receipts (pubs, hotels)
- Valuation method · decisive
- Rental evidence
- Evidence
- Trading accounts, Settled assessments, Rents
- Cases cited
- Lotus and Delta Ltd v Culverwell; LCC v Wilkins; Williams v Scottish and Newcastle and Allied Domecq; Wigan Football Club Ltd v Cox; London CC v Erith and West Ham; R v Paddington ex parte Peachey Property Corporation Ltd; Dawkins v Ash Brothers and Heaton Ltd; Ladies' Hosiery and Underwear v West Middlesex Assessment Committee; National Trust v Hoare; Redrose Ltd v Thomas; R v London and North Western Railway Co; Robinson Bros v Houghton and Chester-Le-Street Assessment Committee; Coppin v East Midlands Airport Joint Committee; Platform Home Loans v Oyston Shipways; Lamb v Go Outdoors Ltd
- Hearing
- 15 January 2021
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