Boswells Cafe, Boswells Cafe, OX4 3UZ
Café and premises Decided 1 October 2025 CHG101107866 Lambert Smith Hampton - Birmingham CCA
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant argued that the rateable value of £58,000 (reduced to £55,500 at challenge stage) was excessive, proposing a base rate of £85.50 per m² instead of £136.80 per m². The tribunal found that comparable properties within the shopping centre had been overvalued and that reductions of approximately 10% had been agreed, supporting a similar reduction to the subject property. Consequently, the tribunal reduced the RV to £50,000 with effect from 1 April 2017, after applying a 10% reduction to the base rate along with existing allowances for quantum and lack of toilet facilities.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Boswells Coffee Co Ltd, represented.
Grounds argued
- Comparable assessments (tone) · decisive
- Quantum or end allowance
- Rental evidence
- Evidence
- Rents, Settled assessments
- Cases cited
- Lotus and Delta v Culverwell; Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson
- Hearing
- 2 September 2025
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