Tribunals · Birmingham City Council · 2017 rating list

Car Parking Spaces 174 to 184 at Centre City, 5-7 Hill Street, B5 4UA

Car Parking Spaces Decided 4 December 2024 CHG101063092 Sixteen Real Estate - John Scully

OutcomeDismissedThe appeal failed and the rateable value was left unchanged.
Original RV—
Ratepayer sought—
VO conceded first—
Tribunal decided—

Figures are as stated in the decision; a dash means the document does not state that figure. This decision covers 20 properties; the figures shown are for the first listed.

What was argued and what the tribunal found

The appellant challenged the effective date of car parking spaces entering the 2017 rating list, arguing for 31 October 2022 (when the list was corrected to split the spaces) or alternatively 24 January 2022 (when initially entered as a single hereditament), rather than 1 April 2017. The tribunal found that the valuation officer correctly applied regulation 14(1B), which provides that corrections to list inaccuracies take effect from when the circumstances giving rise to the alteration first occurred. Since the car parking spaces existed before 1 April 2017 and the list error was a compiled list error that needed correction, the proper effective date was 1 April 2017 (the start of the 2017 list), rejecting the appellant's attempt to benefit from the valuation officer's initial misidentification of the property.

Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Bruntwood Aviva Ltd, represented.

Grounds argued

  • Effective date
  • Validity of the proposal
Evidence
None from the ratepayer
Cases cited
BMC Properties and Management Ltd v Jackson (Valuation Officer) [2015] EWCA Civ 1306; Lamb & Shirley Ltd v Bliss (VO) [2001] EWCA Civ 562
Hearing
14 November 2024

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