Council tax "re-banding", garden has been sold off.
Discussion
Hi,
Just wondering if the fact my house now doesn't have the best part of an acre of garden attached to it (I bought it from the developers who have just built a new house in what was the garden) would mean I'm due for a council tax re-valuation/re-banding.
Currently paying roughly £2200 a year, the next band down is £400 less, and the next £700.
It's still the same house it would have been in '91 just considerably less land.
I've done a few checks on neighbors and they all seem a band or two lower than me, and interestingly the brand new house which is on the market for 3 x what I paid for mine is only one band above.
Worth the effort, or do the valuation office people "just say no"
Cheers
Just wondering if the fact my house now doesn't have the best part of an acre of garden attached to it (I bought it from the developers who have just built a new house in what was the garden) would mean I'm due for a council tax re-valuation/re-banding.
Currently paying roughly £2200 a year, the next band down is £400 less, and the next £700.
It's still the same house it would have been in '91 just considerably less land.
I've done a few checks on neighbors and they all seem a band or two lower than me, and interestingly the brand new house which is on the market for 3 x what I paid for mine is only one band above.
Worth the effort, or do the valuation office people "just say no"
Cheers
Gave the valuation office a call, a nice lady pointed me in the direction of a fairly well hidden link on their website to submit a request to have it re-valued.
She said that it sounded like a good reason for revaluation but it'd be down to the local office.
Even insisted in hanging on the phone to help with the form.
Very painless, fingers crossed they agree with me!
She said that it sounded like a good reason for revaluation but it'd be down to the local office.
Even insisted in hanging on the phone to help with the form.
Very painless, fingers crossed they agree with me!
FWIW, they denied my application, they were fairly convinced that even without the garden it wouldn't have fallen into a lower threshold. I had the option to appeal but couldn't be arsed.
They were really nice about it, chap from the valuation office spent a long time explaining the decision.
They were really nice about it, chap from the valuation office spent a long time explaining the decision.
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