Kent Solicitors

The court will look to comparative rents when deciding on damages for trespass.

In a recent case, the court rejected comparable rents after the end of the five-year trespass period in question as there was no evidence as to the historical movement of rents since the beginning of the period. The court preferred comparable rents from shortly before the commencement of the period in question and averaged them. Having done that, it made no further discount for the unauthorised planning situation or legal difficulties over access to the site.

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