Rating and Local Government
Guy specialises in Local Government Law, and particularly in Rating. Guy regularly advises local authorities and ratepayers as to liability for rates and how this may be enforced. Notable recent issues include the treatment of charitable purposes, and health and leisure centres, and issues of delay in local authorities enforcing rates demands, following Honda.
Guy recently appeared in the magistrates court in Arun DC v Vanstian on behalf of the ratepayer where a local authority was denying rateable occupation (so as to prevent a fresh period of exemption arising following the giving up of that occupation) on the grounds that the object of the occupation was a tax avoidance scheme. The court found in favour of the ratepayer.
More widely. Guy advises a number of local authorities as to the exercise of their statutory powers relating to highways, footpaths, and Building Regulations.
back to practice summaryGuy read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Brasenose College, Oxford (MA Hons) before obtaining a Diploma in Law with distinction from City University.
Guy is a member of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA), the Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA) and the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA). He is an assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Planning Law.
05 Jul 2011
31 Mar 2011
01 Jan 2011
A claim for judicial review against the decision of Wokingham District Council to enforce obligations contained within a section 106 obligation
01 Jan 2011
01 Sep 2010
01 Jul 2010
12 May 2010
Supreme Court ruling on the scope of material considerations that may be taken into account by a local authority exercising compulsory purchase powers.
11 Aug 2009
01 Apr 2009
An application under section 288 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to quash the decision of a planning inspector to refuse planning permission for the conversion of agricultural buildings within the Green belt
01 Jan 2009
A claim for judicial review of Wolverhampton City Council’s decision to approve the principle of compulsorily acquiring some of Sainsbury’s land in order to support a town centre mixed use development proposal put forward by Tesco
01 Jan 2009
A Lands Tribunal for assessment of compensation following the acquisition of land to form a village green in Spelthorne Borough
01 Sep 2008
A Lands Tribunal on behalf of the Claimant for compensation for the compulsory acquisition of an 18 storey office building in Bristol
16 Jul 2008
01 Apr 2011
02 Nov 2010
Three month inquiry into the need for, and location of, a new Motorway Service Area on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire.
01 Sep 2010
01 Jul 2010
01 Apr 2010
01 Feb 2010
01 Dec 2009
01 Oct 2009
01 Jun 2009
01 Feb 2009
01 Aug 2007
08 Dec 2006
