Tribunals · Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council · 2017 rating list

Riverdale Paper Plc, Earlsway, NE11 0RQ

Warehouse and premises Decided 7 August 2023 CHG100530402 Knight Frank - Joanne Corney

OutcomeAllowed in partThe tribunal reduced the rateable value, but by less than the ratepayer sought.

Original RV£94,500£54/m²

Ratepayer sought£54,000

VO conceded first£80,500−15% before the hearing

Tribunal decided£69,000£35.1/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 sought a 50% allowance to the main space rate due to poor build quality of a steel portal frame warehouse with single skin walls, no heating or insulation. The respondent had proposed a 20% allowance. The tribunal found the property was vastly inferior in build quality to comparable post-1990 industrial units at Team Valley, and applied a 35% allowance based on differential evidence between comparable properties, allowing the appeal in part and reducing the RV to £69,000.

Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Riverdale Waste Plc, represented.