Tangible fixed assets include investment properties professionally valued by Chartered Surveyors on an existing use open
market value basis.
Investment properties are included in the balance sheet at their open market value. Depreciation is provided only on those
investment properties which are leasehold and where the unexpired lease term is less than 20 years.
Although this accounting policy is in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April
2008), it is a departure from the general requirement of the Companies Act 2006 for all tangible assets to be depreciated.
In the opinion of the directors compliance with the standard is necessary for the financial statements to give a true and fair
view. Depreciation or amortisation is only one of many factors reflected in the annual valuation and the amount of this
which might otherwise have been charged cannot be separately identified or quantified.