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Moving into flat with only one address - what are the problems?
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Thank you all, you've reassured me loads!
I have contacted royal mail, so hopefully they'll update soon.
I will contact my council too.0 -
arthurfowler wrote: »Thank you all, you've reassured me loads!
I have contacted royal mail, so hopefully they'll update soon.
I will contact my council too.
Check the valuation list here - https://www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands - and it will tell you if each property is banded individually and what address format they use.I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0 -
Check the valuation list here - https://www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands - and it will tell you if each property is banded individually and what address format they use.
Thanks have just checked and my one is listed as ground floor 35 xx road, but there is another listing as '1st and 2nd floors 35 xxx road'. Not sure what that means.0 -
We sort of had this in our last home... we were separate on electoral register and for utilities. But the Royal Mail basically didn't have us down and this mostly meant that we never found our address on drop down lists and every now and then we'd have a problem because of it, such as I couldn't get a mobile phone plan through Tesco as I think their system insisted on the address existing on the Royal Mail list. That was the obnly meaningful problem we had.
The freeholders lived upstairs and were curiously reticent about doing anything that might identify the flats as such (it was a converted house), including us putting clearer labels by the doorbells, which people always had to guess and were ringing the wrong ones. The freeholders got annoyed by this, but also said 'No way' when we suggested putting a clear A and B in metal letters by the relevant bells.
It was no good asking them to sort out the mail address as it had to be them who contacted Royal Mail and they were clearly never going to do it.1 -
arthurfowler wrote: »Thanks have just checked and my one is listed as ground floor 35 xx road, but there is another listing as '1st and 2nd floors 35 xxx road'. Not sure what that means.
They're often not very sensible or inventive when they enter an address in the Valuation lists ! (I've have seen some corkers though). As far as the Council and the Valuation Office are concerned there are two properties at that building Grd Floor #35 and 1st/2nd floor #35.I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0 -
I used to live in a converted house, which split into ground floor and second floor. Royal mail records one house number.
For utilities, I don't think that will be a problem. When I set up the utilities, nPower got it with A and EDF got it as Ground Floor. The most important information for gas and electricity would be the meter serial number. My neighbour and I can both get the internet setup with Gound Floor in front of my address.0 -
It was no good asking them to sort out the mail address as it had to be them who contacted Royal Mail and they were clearly never going to do it.
I was a tenant on an assured shorthold tenancy when I contacted Royal Mail to get the address database changed.Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning0
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