Pepper (UK) Limited v Burnley Borough Council

Decision date: 27 October 2020

Neutral citation: [2020] UKUT 295 (LC)

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Short overview

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This appeal concerned whether the claimant made a valid reference under section 15(1) and whether the tribunal could direct compensation to be paid to the claimant in part satisfaction of an interested party’s mortgage under section 15(2). The tribunal held the reference was valid and awarded £20,000 plus statutory interest from the valuation date to be paid to the claimant in part satisfaction of the mortgage. The tribunal declined to award a 7.5% basic loss payment because no written claim for it had been made to the acquiring authority. The decision is final on all matters except costs.

Ratio decidendi

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The tribunal treated as authoritative that where a claimant makes a valid reference under s.15(1) the tribunal may direct payment of compensation to the claimant in part satisfaction of an interested party’s mortgage under s.15(2). It also held that a basic loss payment cannot be awarded by the tribunal in the absence of the procedural statutory requirement of a written claim to the acquiring authority.

Obiter dicta

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The notes record the tribunal’s view (not framed as binding ratio) that an acquiring authority’s informal offer of a basic loss payment in correspondence does not substitute for the required statutory written claim, and that the interested party remained able to pursue a late claim for a basic loss payment to the acquiring authority.

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