Severn Trent Academy, St Martins Road, CV3 6RJ
College of further education and premises Decided 28 October 2025 CHG101178662 Lambert Smith Hampton - Birmingham CCA
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant argued the property should be valued as a college of further education with educational purposes, not as an office. The tribunal found that the property, with its purpose-built training facilities (workshops, training rig, mock customer house, training river), would require major structural changes to convert to office use and therefore should be valued rebus sic stantibus in its actual mode of occupation. Using the contractor's method with educational decapitalisation rate, the tribunal determined the correct RV was £113,000.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Severn Trent Water Limited, represented.
Grounds argued
- Valuation method · decisive
- Zoning or layout
- Evidence
- Expert report, Photographs
- Cases cited
- Scottish & Newcastle Retail Limited & Allied Domecq Retailing Limited v R F Williams (VO); Gardiner & Theobald LLP v David Jackson (VO)
- Hearing
- 3 October 2025
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