Bennett v Northampton BC

Bennett v Northampton BC - 1989 - Rating & Valuation Reporter (1989) 29 RVR 114-120(7) .

LT 20 February 1989 Reference to decide the compensation payable by the council to the claimant on the compulsory purchase of the claimant`s leasehold interest in premises used for a residential estate agency business. LT held that the leasehold interest should be valued as a business and not as a shop; sum awarded was £2,000. A sum of £7,365.78 was awarded for disturbance and compensation for temporary loss of profits was £4,161.25, based on 25 house sales at the average fee for 1972 of 166.45. The claimant had not established a case for permanent loss of profits due to dispossession. Compensation payable by the council was 13,550.