JOHN BURVILL v GARETH DAVID JONES (Valuation Officer)
Decision date: 25 March 2013
Neutral citation: [2013] UKUT 101 (LC)
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Short overview
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This appeal concerned the 2010 rating valuation of Unit 4, K9 Estate, occupied as an MOT test centre, and whether valuation should reflect its sui generis use and neighbouring nuisances. The Tribunal held the unit should be valued as an MOT test centre using proximate estate comparables, applied rebus sic stantibus, allowed deductions for poor access, lack of drinking water and neighbouring refuse use, and reduced the RV to £14,500 (effective 1 April 2010). The appeal was allowed in part; no costs order was made.
Ratio decidendi
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When valuing a sui generis premises rebus sic stantibus under the rating statutes, a valuer may properly rely on physically proximate comparable units on the same estate where only minor works would change the use; physically manifest matters at the material day (Schedule 6(2)(7)) that affect the hypothetical tenant’s use and enjoyment must be reflected by appropriate reductions even if the actual landlord might have remedies against an adjoining occupier.
Obiter dicta
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Observations indicated that anticipated future changes (for example a later phase of a Low Emission Zone) are not ordinarily treated as physically manifest matters under Schedule 6(2)(7)(d) unless there is evidence of their effect at the material day, and that nationwide measures (such as scrappage schemes) are unlikely to be taken into account under 2(7)(d) absent local, observable consequences at the relevant date.