Section 52: Calculating additional payment
219.This section sets out some general and some specific rules for determining the amount of an additional payment. Subsection (2) provides that the right is to be valued as at the appointed day.
220.Subsections (3) and (4) contain specific rules relating to the valuation of a landlord’s reversionary interest in a claim under section 51(1)(e). In particular, the value is deemed to be the value of the right if sold on the open market by a willing seller to a willing buyer, with special buyers and special sellers (i.e. those with a particular interest in the property) disregarded.
221.Subsections (5) to (7) provide that any obligations on the landlord which are extinguished by conversion have to be taken into account (but not insofar as such obligations are preserved as a counter obligation to a real burden) as has any other entitlement of the landlord to recover in respect of the loss. “Any other entitlement” refers primarily to the compensatory payment calculated under section 47.
222.Subsection (8) caps a claim for the loss of the right to development value. In some cases, ultra-long leases may have been granted cheaply on the basis that the property was used for some limited purpose, such as the building of a church or a community hall.
223.Paragraph 6.45 of the Scottish Law Commission report said that if any leasehold conditions preserving development value were discharged by the Lands Tribunal, any compensation would be limited to a sum to make up for the effect the leasehold condition produced in reducing the consideration paid for the interest in the property. No account is taken of inflation. In other words, the loss of the right to development value is limited to the reduction in the price paid for the interest in the property at the time.
