Hotel Clifton, St Pauls Road, BS8 1LX
Hotels and Premises Decided 22 December 2025 CHG101154413 Rabbette Chartered Surveyors
Figures are as stated in the decision; a dash means the document does not state that figure. This decision covers 4 properties; the figures shown are for the first listed.
What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant contended that four Clifton hotels should be valued using the comparison method based on rental evidence from part of one subject property (11-13 St Paul's Road let at £27,000 pa), arguing this supported RVs of £49,000-£103,000. The tribunal found the rent review evidence (only for part of one hereditament, lacking open market certainty) to be of limited reliability and found the valuation officer's receipts and expenditure method using Fair Maintainable Turnover more reasonable. The tribunal rejected a claimed 15% overtrading adjustment as unsupported by comparisons with other hotels in the locality, and accepted the officer's FMT figures and range points as properly reflecting each property's characteristics and profitability.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Quarter, represented.
Grounds argued
- Rental evidence
- Valuation method · decisive
- Trading receipts (pubs, hotels)
- Evidence
- Rents, Trading accounts, Earlier tribunal decisions
- Cases cited
- Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson (VO) [2018] UKUT 0253 (LC); Arma Hotels v Corkish (VO) [2020] UKUT 0103 (LC); Arma Hotels Ltd v Bunyan (VO) [2023] UKUT 3 (LC)
- Hearing
- 1 December 2025
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