We first inspected the site and noted that the runway was in a relatively poor condition and that, as the runway areas were contiguous, the assessments should be merged.
In rating there is an assumption that the property/site is in a reasonable state of repair for the purposes of valuation. However, if it can be argued that it would be uneconomic for a Landlord to carry out repairs then an adjustment can be made to the valuation to reflect this.
We therefore recommended to our client that we first lodge an appeal to merge the property and then challenge the £/m2 rate applied to the runway to reflect the fact that it is in a poor state of repair and that for the Landlord it would be uneconomic to repair the land.