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Advertising rights (digital) Decided 1 June 2023 CHG100706377 Dentons UK and Middle East LLP - Gemma Louise Hunter-Barnes
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
Network Rail sought deletion of two advertising rights entries from the local rating list, contending they formed part of the railway hereditament shown in the Central List. The tribunal found that Network Rail retained paramount control of the advertising space through extensive powers to withdraw, obstruct, or temporarily take over the advertising for safety announcements and customer information, and that the arrangement with JCDecaux was a management concession, not a letting-out. Accordingly, the advertising rights were not separately rateable but formed part of the railway hereditament and should be assessed in the Central List only, making the local list entries duplicative.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, represented.
Grounds argued
- Relief or exemption · decisive
- Validity of the proposal
- Evidence
- Expert report
- Cases cited
- R v St Pancras Assessment Committee; Holywell Union Assessors v Halkyn; John Laing & Sons v Kingswood Assessment Committee; Westminster City Council v Southern Railway Company; Peak (VO) v Henlys; Imperial Tobacco Company v Pierson; O'Brien v Secker (VO); Cardtronics Europe Ltd v Sykes (VO); Esso Petroleum Company v Walker (VO); Woolway (VO) v Mazars LLP; Ludgate House Ltd v Ricketts (VO)
- Hearing
- 11 May 2023
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