Parking Space, 7 Union Place, PO1 1QZ
Car parking space and premises Decided 1 October 2024 CHG101112729 Wilks Head & Eve LLP - James Lewin
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
Portsmouth City Council sought deletion of two parking space assessments from the rating list, arguing they were domestic property forming part of the curtilage of residential flats. The tribunal rejected this argument, finding that the parking spaces were not appurtenances to the residential properties because they could be licensed to anyone (including non-residents living outside a 15-minute walk) with no automatic right to residents of the flats, and the council had deliberately separated the parking from the flats. The spaces were correctly treated as non-domestic hereditaments.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Portsmouth City Council, represented.
Grounds argued
- Relief or exemption
- Evidence
- Expert report
- Cases cited
- Laing v Kingswood Assessment Committee; Garton v Hunter; Lotus and Delta Limited v Culverwell; Reeves v Tobias; Coxhead v Brentwood UDC; Porter VO v Gray Son & Cook and Cambridge Corporation; Woolway v Mazars; Cardtronics and Others v Sykes and Others; LB Southwark v Ludgate House Ltd
- Hearing
- 13 September 2024
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- Parking Space, 10 Wimpole Court, PO1 1QT — Dismissed, 1 Oct 2024
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