Council Band - Improvement indicator?

Okey00001

I will be applying to reduce Council Band from E to D. 

My house is in a less desirable location with a higher tax band than my friend's house which is twice as big and worth £300,000 more and in a private gated residential road. 

Our house is on  a main trunk road, busy and value has dropped slightly. However, there are a couple of houses with band D almost identical to ours. I don't know why they are lower as most of the properties on our road is band E.

I would like to know what the Improvement indicator means on the Council Tax band. What does it mean and how does it reduct the tax band?

p00hsticks

If the improvement indicator is 'yes', it means that the council VOA are aware that the current owners have carried out some fairly major improvements to the property (e.g. added an extension, converted the garage into living accomodation etc). For council tax banding purposes these improvements are ignored until the property is next sold, at which point the council tax band will be reassessed and may be raised as a result of the improvements made.

in_my_wellies

In my experience if you have an extension which would put the band up then whilst you live at the property the band remains same, but when sold the band will go up. 

My house was E and stayed at E after a large extension had a marker. When I moved out it was banded G for the next owner

lincroft1710

CT bands are based on 1991 values, so unless there has been a recent physical change to the area or property which caused its value to drop slightly, reductions in property values cannot be reflected in CT bands.


The CT band of your friend's house could be too low.