The court considered the market value of a private residence. The evidence was that its value to persons wishing to use it as a private residence was 750 pounds. However, the house adjoined a nurses’ home the trustees of which wanted to extend their premises and they purchased it for 1000 pounds. The trustees would have paid up to 1100 pounds. The appellant accepted that it was proper to take into account that one or more adjoining landowners are likely to offer more than the property would be worth to anyone else but that an adjoining owner would pay little more than what the property was worth to outside purchasers.
Held: The court is concerned with ‘the expectations of properly qualified persons who have taken pains to inform themselves of all particulars ascertainable about the property, and its capabilities, the demand for it, and the likely buyers.’
Judges:
Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy MR
Citations:
[1914] 3 KB 466
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – C F and M G Roberts v South Gloucestershire District Council LT 31-Dec-1994
LT COMPENSATION – Compulsory purchase of land for the construction of a road – value – assumed planning permission – value of minerals – planning permission for a commercial minerals operation not granted or to . .
Cited – Waters and others v Welsh Development Agency HL 29-Apr-2004
Land was to be compulsorily purchased. A large development required the land to be used to create a nature reserve. The question was how and if at all the value of the overall scheme should be considered when assessing the compensation for this . .
Cited – Earl Cadogan v Pitts and Wang; Similar HL 10-Dec-2008
The House considered the basis of valuation on an acquisition of the freehold reversion of a lease under the 1967 Act of the three elements, the rent, vacant possession after the lease, and the marriage or hope value of the two interests when . .
Applied – F R Evans (Leeds) Ltd v English Electric Co Ltd 1977
On the rent review of a large factory of which the only potential occupier was the tenant in question, one should assume a hypothetical landlord and hypothetical willing tenant so that the rental levels were not affected by one or both parties being . .
Cited – Transport for London (London Underground Ltd) v Spirerose Ltd HL 30-Jul-2009
Compulsory Purchase Compensation – Land As it Is
The House considered the basis of calculation of compensation on the compulsory purchase of land without planning permission, but where permission would probably be granted. The appellant challenged the decision which had treated the probability as . .
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Land
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.188857