Grant & Stone Ltd, Stocklake, HP20 1DA
Warehouse and premises Decided 21 November 2025 CHG101143352 Colliers International - Stephen Dowds-Jones
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant challenged the rateable value of a warehouse with three industrial units on a fragmented site, seeking allowances for fragmentation (7.5%), access (5%), and flood risk (30%). The tribunal found the property was factually fragmented into three separate units with inefficient layout and maintenance liabilities, and awarded a 7.5% fragmentation allowance. The tribunal found no sufficient disadvantage for the access issue on its own merits. For flood risk, although the property was in flood zones 2 & 3 with high surface water flooding risk, with no evidence of actual flooding, the tribunal awarded a 5% allowance (reflecting the 2017 list and the respondent's acceptance of flood risk in rate reductions). The appeal was allowed in part, reducing the RV from £85,000 to £72,500.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Grant & Stone Ltd, represented.
Grounds argued
- Floor area or measurement
- Zoning or layout
- Quantum or end allowance · decisive
- Other
- Evidence
- Photographs, Earlier tribunal decisions
- Cases cited
- Johnson Cars v Mouland [VTE, CHG101079624, 2025]; Gavin Jones v Mouland [VTE, CHG100927477 & CHG100828260, 2025]; Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson (VO) [2018] UKUT 0253 (LC)
- Hearing
- 11 November 2025
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