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I came across some useful information today that doesn't exactly fall into the categories of the title of this section, but I think this is the closest one. The plot that we have bought has an old bungalow on it that we plan to demolish. Because the property has been vacant for some time, North Dorset Council have re-imposed council tax on the property and no discounts are available. Lack of occupancy and change of ownership make no difference. I advised the council of the change of ownership and just received a council tax bill for the remainder of the council's financial year, to 31/3/17. I rang the council as I wanted to be clear on a couple of minor points, in particular since demolition may take a period of time and when council tax would cease, and they put me in touch with the Valuation Office Agency. In short, the VOA advised that as soon as the property becomes 'unbanded', council tax can no longer be levied. The property becomes unbanded as soon as either the windows or roof are removed and so it is uninhabitable. Whether or not it has utilities connected is irrelevant and it isn't necessary to wait for demolition to apply for it to be unbanded. The windows part of this is very helpful for us as our property may have bats in the roof space, so demolition could take some time. However, once we've had the electricity supply to the bungalow cut off, we can go ahead and remove the windows and escape a £1600 pa council tax charge.- 11 replies
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We have to vacate our long term rental home in 2 months. The plan had always been to move to a static caravan on site but there's no way we are now going to have the required services installed in time. We are having to consider moving to a cheap rental flat at least for a few months and wondering if there is really any financial benefit to then buying and moving to a caravan. Anyone know if you have to pay council tax for a static? Any advice about the benefits one way or the other would be greatly appreciated. -
Today we got an email from the council saying that they, and the valuation officer, had accepted that we not longer need to pay council tax on the property we are building in Seasalter as there is no longer a habitable dwelling on the site. The roof has been long gone and I am just salvaging the main timbers, those that are not rotted, for general purposes around the site. The small win is that although they only checked on the site in October, after we requested the council tax to stop, they have back dated the non payment to the date of the demolition order (August), some here might remember that asking for a demolition order triggered an automatic commencement of the build. So we are due for a small windfall in council tax repayment which I am looking forward to putting towards on one of these if anybody has experience of the beast please let me know good / bad!