Rehman & Ors v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Court of Appeal - Lands Tribunal, August 15, 2001, [2001] EWLands ACQ_164_2000

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Rehman & Ors v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Court of Appeal - Lands Tribunal, August 15, 2001, [2001] EWLands ACQ_164_2000

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[2001] EWLands ACQ_164_2000 (15 August 2001)

ACQ/162-5/2000

(heard together)

LANDS TRIBUNAL ACT 1949

COMPENSATION - compulsory acquisition of derelict properties in Bradford - ownership - rights of way - comparables - inadmissibility of Tribunal's decision on value of adjoining property - claimants' valuer's figures accepted

IN THE MATTER of a NOTICE OF REFERENCE

BETWEEN REHMAN & OTHERS Claimants

and

CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN Acquiring

DISTRICT COUNCIL Authority

Re: 234, 236, 238 & 240

Manningham Lane,

Bradford

Tribunal Member: P H Clarke FRICS

Sitting at Huddersfield

on 28 and 29 June 2001

The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Montgarret v Claro Water Board (1963) 15 P & CR 53

Khan(S) v Bradford Metropolitan District Council (2000) (unreported) (ACQ/132/2000)

Land Securities plc v Westminster City Council [1992] 44 EG 153

John Collins instructed by William Hicks & Partners, solicitors, for the claimants

Vincent Fraser QC instructed by Department of Legal and Democratic Services, City of Bradford MDC, for the acquiring authority

DECISION

These are four references heard together to determine the compensation payable for the compulsory acquisition of derelict properties in Bradford.

John Collins appeared for the claimants and called John Rastrick Padgett MRICS, a director of Eddisons Commercial Limited of Bradford, Aziz Rehman, claimant, owner of 240 Manningham Lane; and Dilhad Khan, claimant, owner of 238 Manningham Lane.

Vincent Fraser QC appeared for the acquiring authority and called Ivor James BSc, a property services officer with Bradford Metropolitan ...

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