Rate demand

[nod]

Just sat in my office catching up on some paperwork 

I came accross a bunch of photos 

taken throughout our build

The one below shows the mud bath of twelve months ago

Looking at the picture you wouldn’t think we had removed 750 tons of spoil 

 

 

since started our project some twelve months ago

Ive read with interest Menbers discussing what is considered habitable and what isn’t 

So I’ve been carful to instal a treatment plant but it connect 

gas on but no metre 

big coil of blue alkathene at the entrance to the site

All basis covered You would think

We are still first fixing plumbing and electrics

Imagine our suprise when a rate demand landed 

Obiviously a mistake

Weve spent all week trying to get a real person to speak to on the other end of the phone

Finally we did today 

It turns out that the neighbour that we bought the land from had filled a form in on our behalf Thinking she was getting a rate reducing due to selling off half her land

Talk about a can of worms 

There going to send someone down 

[dogman]

We have almost monthly visits from the council rates officer wanting to check progress.

As the house looks finished from the outside we have to show him around every time. 

Despite our estimated completion date of early summer at the last visit I would bet that he will turn up sometime in February 

[ProDave]

Since we got PP and put the static caravan on site, I think the Council tax valuer visited almost every month.  When we did finally move into the 'van and phone him, he said "let me get the file. Ah I see I have photographs of your 'van, and I have visited the site 17 times"

 

It would not surprise me if he is still visiting every month to look through the windows and see if the house is "ready" to start charging council tax on that.