Issue - meetings

By way of a report by the Head of Customer Services to consider a change to the Council Tax Policy for properties which are uninhabitable and requiring/undergoing structural alteration or major repair.

Agreed to reduce the discount for uninhabitable dwellings requiring or undergoing structural alteration or major repair (Class D) to 0%, with effect from 1^st April 2014.

Further to Minute No. 12/76  and by way of a report by the Head of Customer Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet considered a proposal to reduce the Council Tax discount awarded for properties which are inhabitable and requiring/undergoing structural alteration or major repair to 0%.

Executive Councillors were reminded that the authority’s current Council Tax Policy allowed for 100% discount for such properties. Having been advised that the change would encourage owners to re-occupy properties, remove financial incentives to do otherwise and achieve both income generation and efficiency savings in terms of administrative burdens, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

that the discount for uninhabitable dwellings requiring or undergoing structural alteration or major repair (Class D) be reduced to 0%, with effect from 1^st April 2014.