Very Best Hand Car Wash, Adj 172 Blackburn Road, Oswaldtwistle, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NZ

What was argued and what the tribunal found

The appellant challenged the £15,500 RV on grounds that the tone of £18 per m² was excessive. The Valuation Officer had reduced it to £15,000 based on £18 per m². The tribunal found the Valuation Officer's rental comparables were drawn from different valuation schemes with significantly lower unit values than analysed rents, and therefore unreliable. The tribunal gave weight to the appellant's comparable property (Baxenden Car Spa at £13 per m²), a similar hand car wash on an A road. The tribunal allowed the appeal in part, adopting £13 per m² as reasonable, and determined a revised RV of £11,000. The claim for a 5% end allowance for access was rejected as the appeal property's location on the main road distinguished it from the rear units with restricted visibility.

Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Very Best Hand Car Wash Ltd, represented.

Grounds argued

• Comparable assessments (tone) · decisive
• Quantum or end allowance

Evidence

Rents, Earlier tribunal decisions

Cases cited

Lotus and Delta v Culverwell; Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson

Hearing

6 January 2023