50A Holton Road, Barry, CF63 4HE
Bar and Premises Decided 18 July 2023 695033616578/285NV17 Valuation Tribunal for Wales
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What was argued and what the tribunal found
The appellant challenged the rateable value of his bar and premises, arguing it should be valued using Fair Maintainable Trade analysis for licensed premises rather than as a shop unit. However, the appellant did not provide his own FMT-based valuation or trade information. The tribunal found that no physical alterations would be required to return the property to shop use and that, applying the rebus sic stantibus principle, it should be valued as a retail unit. The tribunal allowed the appeal only to the extent the Valuation Officer conceded by changing the description from hairdressing salon to bar and premises, maintaining the rateable value at £14,750.
Summary generated from the decision text and checked against it. The appellant was an individual ratepayer, unrepresented.
Grounds argued
- Zoning or layout · decisive
- Valuation method
- Evidence
- Rents, tone_of_list_comparables
- Cases cited
- Vines Ltd v de Mauny; Lotus and Delta v Culverwell; Williams v Scottish Newcastle Retail Ltd and Domecq Retailing Ltd; Fir Mill case; Milton Keynes case
- Hearing
- 21 June 2023
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