Council Tax Query

01GP

Hi I have a general query (or gripe) with Council Tax and its banding. We live on a new build estate in the countryside where everything is adopted - in that the roads, foul and waste water services etc are not owned or managed by the council and we pay a management company a fee to look after and repair any issues on the site. 
Base on how the banding is achieved (which is out dated at best) does anyone know if it takes into account the fact that the council doesn't own / look after the estate and that it is privately owned?
Thanks for any assistance

lincroft1710

CT is based on the market value of a dwelling as at 1 April 1991 (Eng and Scot) or 1 April 2003 (Wales). So if the private ownership of the roads, foul and waste water services affected the property's market value then theoretically it would correspondingly be reflected in that property's CT band.

Rodders53

UN-adopted... in that the Council have not adopted the Highways...

Waste water is usually the Water Utilities responsibility (surface water drainage from highways may be their responsibility, too)...  would be rare to have private sewer works but not impossible... but you won't be paying the water supply Utility for waste/surface water so you have a saving there.

01GP

lincroft1710 said:

CT is based on the market value of a dwelling as at 1 April 1991 (Eng and Scot) or 1 April 2003 (Wales). So if the private ownership of the roads, foul and waste water services affected the property's market value then theoretically it would correspondingly be reflected in that property's CT band.

Yeah I'm not convinced that they did / do and just use there old and outdated method of calculating CT. Im guessing there is no way of finding out? 
Thank you for your comment

01GP

Rodders53 said:

UN-adopted... in that the Council have not adopted the Highways...

Waste water is usually the Water Utilities responsibility (surface water drainage from highways may be their responsibility, too)...  would be rare to have private sewer works but not impossible... but you won't be paying the water supply Utility for waste/surface water so you have a saving there.

Yeah we have a shared septic tank on site which is managed through the Management Company . And the small saving on the CT side is offset and put towards the cleaning and maintenance of the tank.
Thank you for your comments

lincroft1710

01GP said:

lincroft1710 said:

CT is based on the market value of a dwelling as at 1 April 1991 (Eng and Scot) or 1 April 2003 (Wales). So if the private ownership of the roads, foul and waste water services affected the property's market value then theoretically it would correspondingly be reflected in that property's CT band.

Yeah I'm not convinced that they did / do and just use there old and outdated method of calculating CT. Im guessing there is no way of finding out? 
Thank you for your comment

It is actually doubtful if there is any difference in price between identical houses with or without adopted roads and even if there were it would probably be so small in 1991 terms that it wouldn't affect the band anyway. I'm ex VOA and don't recall any such band reductions.