Water charges- unmetered and Rateable Value

Jazz90

We are currently paying £211 per month water and sewerage charges. That is £2,532pa. I have read a chain of messages where there has been complaint about bills of £800-900 pa so I realised there was something very wrong with our billing! I have made enquiries with neighbours who are also unmetered but paying between £80 and £102 a month.

Their houses were built after mine and not assessed on the old Rateable Value. This is now a defunct system but the Water Board say they cannot change the basis of their assessment as the RV is the RV- I have to go on a meter. This I am having to consider.

My question is- has anyone managed to get a rebate for overpayment (even if not the waterboard's 'fault' as they rely on the old RV (which now cannot be challenged.) We have been over paying by at least twice as much as our neighbours for decades!!!

Thanks

Jazz

daveyjp

If you want to pay less the only option is a meter.

QrizB

Something's not quite right here?

I have made enquiries with neighbours who are also unmetered but paying between £80 and £102 a month. Their houses were built after mine and not assessed on the old Rateable Value.

If their houses are too new to have a Rateable Value, they're new enough that they should have been built with water meters.

Switching to metered supply saves most people a small fortune. I'm paying ~£50 a month in a 3bed semi.

MattMattMattUK

There has been no overpayment, you were billed based on rateable value, it would have been cheaper to move to a meter but it was still not an overpayment and you will not get any refund. Get a meter installed and you will save yourself a significant amount, unless you have a large number of people in the property you should be able to save at least half, maybe even three quarters of your current payments. You can work out how much using the link below.

https://www.ccw.org.uk/save-money-and-water/water-meter-calculator/