ECONOMETRIC LIMITED BREWSTERS WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED COURTVILLE PROPERTIES LIMITED BARRY, BRIAN AND SHEILA BREWSTER v Greater London Authority

Decision date: 22 May 2014

Neutral citation: [2014] UKUT 219 (LC)

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This consolidated reference concerned compulsory acquisition of 28 Marshgate Lane and whether an upfront £270,000 payment at the start of a 25‑year lease was a lease premium (affecting capital valuation) or a contribution to site development. The Tribunal found the payment was a contribution to development, rejected reliance on a post‑valuation Farnborough letting as insufficiently comparable, and awarded the freehold of 28 Marshgate Lane £1,400,000 plus a basic loss payment of £75,000; no profit rent claim succeeded.

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A payment described contemporaneously as for plant/chattels and not recorded as a premium in the lease or related documents will not be treated as a lease premium for valuation unless evidence shows a hypothetical purchaser at the valuation date would have treated it as such. Post‑valuation transactions can be admissible to establish objective facts at the valuation date but cannot be used as a proxy for market value unless shown to be truly comparable and likely to have been considered by the hypothetical purchaser.

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The Tribunal commented that care is needed when relying on transactions affected by compulsory acquisition or in specialised markets (such as waste transfer sites), and that upward‑only rent review clauses and absence of documentation evidencing a premium reduce the likelihood an upfront payment will alter hypothetical purchaser expectations at review.

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