FLIGHT TIMBER PRODUCTS, EARLS COLNE INDUSTRIAL PARK, EARLS COLNE, CO6 2NS
Workshop and Premises Decided 29 June 2023 CHG100741890 Altus Group - Oakland - Manchester
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant challenged the £146,000 RV entered in the 2017 rating list, proposing £70,000 RV based on a tone of £19/m². The tribunal found the subject property's actual rent too far removed from the statutory definition of rateable value and gave it little weight. The comparable properties on the same industrial estate, with leases commencing closer to the antecedent valuation date, supported the VO's tone of £50/m², with a 10% allowance appropriately reflecting poor quality workshop areas. The appellant failed to discharge the burden of proof.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Flight Timber Products, represented.
Grounds argued
- Rental evidence
- Comparable assessments (tone)
- Evidence
- Rents, Settled assessments, Photographs
- Cases cited
- Lotus and Delta v Culverwell; Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson
- Hearing
- 31 May 2023
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