It’s empty now. I’ll look into that.
New Council Tax Bill
- Thread starter hammocity
- Start date
If you live alone make sure you get your 25% discount.
Stockton Heath Blue
Well-Known Member
If you know a plumber, get them to disconnect the toilet. A house has to be fit for occupation to enable council tax.
I don’t pal, it’s my late Dad’s empty house.
Before you do, Trafford Council state if the house is a renovation project the house has to be uninhabitable.
Blueboy73
Well-Known Member
It boils my piss at having to pay full council tax on an empty house in circumstances like that.
When my wife and I met, we both had our own place and received a 25% discount.
She moved into my house and put her house up for sale.
We did the honest thing and told both Local Authorities and were rewarded for our honesty with both of us losing our 25% discount!
We had to pay full council tax on the empty house until it was sold despite the fact that neither of us received any of the services listed on the bill.
threadkiller
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 7 Apr 2006
- Messages
- 309
That's to discourage hoarding empty property for investment purposes.
No house should be left empty by a buyer or property developer. The house should be renovated and a tenant found asap. There are 1000’s of people and families desperate for accommodation, with houses empty across the UK.
Why does England have nearly 100,000 homeless families in Temporary Accommodation and 238,000 long-term empty homes? Just part of a wider vacant total of over 650,000.
www.actiononemptyhomes.org
If empty homes rates is a way to push developers to redevelop and renovate their properties faster, it’s a good idea.
Why does England have nearly 100,000 homeless families in Temporary Accommodation and 238,000 long-term empty homes? Just part of a wider vacant total of over 650,000.
In Empty Homes Week 2022 we call for action and investment
In Empty Homes Week 2022 we explain the areas of policy that fail our homeless and families in need of genuinely affordable housing. Empty homes have two roles in this they can house the homeless and they can show us where housing policy fails by building 'The Wrong Housing' to end the Housing...
www.actiononemptyhomes.org
If empty homes rates is a way to push developers to redevelop and renovate their properties faster, it’s a good idea.
It is to encourage you not to leave it empty. Housing shortage and everything...
Loads of nutters with empty homes.
The_Maverick
Well-Known Member
That’s odd. When my Dad passed away we received a significant reduction as it was an empty house. Mind you it was about 10 years ago so perhaps policy has changed.