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Processing Plant at Dairy House Farm, Chester Road, Over Tabley, Over Tabley, WA16 0PP

Processing Plant (Factory, workshop, and premises) Decided 16 September 2024 CHG101067665 Rupert David Ltd

OutcomeDismissedThe appeal failed and the rateable value was left unchanged.
Original RV£98,000
Ratepayer sought—
VO conceded first—
Tribunal decided£98,000

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What was argued and what the tribunal found

The appellant sought exemption from rating under Schedule 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 on the basis that the processing plant was an agricultural building. The tribunal found insufficient evidence on the balance of probabilities that the processing plant formed a single agricultural unit with agricultural land at Dairy House Farm, as there was no evidence of common occupation or that the turkeys were produced on land occupied by the same occupier as the processing plant. The tribunal concluded the subject property was correctly entered in the 2017 rating list with a rateable value of £98,000 (and £93,500 from 14 January 2022).

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

Grounds argued

  • Relief or exemption
Evidence
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Cases cited
Buxted Poultry Ltd; Farmer v Buxted Poultry Ltd; Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson
Hearing
22 August 2024

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