RICHARDS DRY DOCK AND ENGINEERING LTD, SOUTHTOWN ROAD, NR31 0JJ
Factory and premises Decided 5 August 2025 CHG101209353 Ryan Property Tax Services UK Limited/Altus Group - Oakland - Manchester
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant (a workboat company) challenged the rateable value of a historic boatyard, seeking reduction from £131,000 to £89,500 based on excessive mooring valuation, alleged double counting, and removal of split-site/flood-risk allowance. The tribunal upheld the £100/m mooring valuation as reasonable given site characteristics and comparable properties, rejected the double-counting claim, but allowed reinstatement of a 10% allowance for split-site disadvantages, reducing the assessment to £118,000 with effect from 22 December 2023.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was Alicat Workboats Limited, represented.
Grounds argued
- Rental evidence
- Comparable assessments (tone)
- Split or merge the assessment
- Relief or exemption · decisive
- Evidence
- Settled assessments, Earlier tribunal decisions
- Cases cited
- Lotus and Delta v Culverwell
- Hearing
- 18 July 2025
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