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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant sought to split the property into two separate hereditaments from 1st August 2019, arguing two separate businesses occupied the unit and should be rated separately to qualify for business rate relief. The tribunal dismissed the appeal, finding that although two entities occupied the property, the absence of physical partition meant the areas were not self-contained hereditaments capable of existing independently under established case law, and that the appellant's plan showed the two areas were interdependent on each other rather than exclusive.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was an individual ratepayer, unrepresented.
Grounds argued
- Split or merge the assessment · decisive
- Evidence
- rental_evidence, Photographs, None from the ratepayer
- Cases cited
- Burn Stewart Distillers PLC v Lanarkshire Valuation Joint Board; Woolway v Mazars; Holywell Union Assessment Committee v Halkyn District Mines Drainage Co; John Laing & Son Ltd v Assessment Committee for Kingswood Assessment Area; Vines Ltd v De Mauny; Mazars v Woolway
- Hearing
- 25 March 2021
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