Kiosk 4, Beaconsfield Services, Windsor Road, Windsor Road, HP9 2SE
Offices and premises Decided 24 May 2022 CHG100376834 Altus Group - Oakland - Manchester
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant company proposed a 65% reduction in rateable value for its office property on grounds of material change in circumstances relating to Covid-19, arguing that public anxiety and behavioural changes were physically manifest in the locality and therefore relevant under Schedule 6 paragraph 2(7) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988. The tribunal dismissed all 26 related appeals, finding that section 1(4) of the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021 clearly prohibited any reduction in respect of matters directly or indirectly attributable to coronavirus, and that none of the specific exceptions in section 1(5) applied to these cases.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Vistra International Expansion Ltd, represented.
Grounds argued
- Change of circumstances · decisive
- Change of circumstances
- covid
- Cases cited
- Clement v Addis Ltd; Chilton-Merryweather v Hunt; Pavlou v Valuation Officer; The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch; John Burvill v Gareth David Jones; Kendrick v Valuation Officer; Canary Wharf
- Hearing
- 18 May 2022
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