Council Tax Re-Banding

Slackbladder_2

Can anyone please advise

We live in a small cul de sac of 6 houses 4 houses the same size, our house and our next door neighbour are larger but identical. Our tax band is G so are the 4 smaller houses. Our next door neighbour is band F in the identical house to ours. We have checked the history and it shows that the neighbours house was also a band G upto April 93 when it became an F (possibly through appeal). We do not want to cause our neighbour a problem but if we can latch on to their Band F also what are the chances?. We may end up causing him to go up a band which is not our intention but if our houses are genuinly a G then surely the other 4 should be an F which is what we expected to find in the first place.
Help please!!!!!!

thriftymomma

I will be watching this thread. The semi next door to mine is a band lower but all the other houses are the same as ours. Like you I don't really want to cause or neighbours a problem but if I can make things cheaper for us then I have to give it a shot. Is it worth taking the risk with just one house the same band do you think? Thanks in advance for your assistance x

N9eav

You could look at Martins article here

Also there are other factors. My house is the biggest in the street and I am on the lowest band. I built a rather large extension on a small house, but they can't reband the house while I still live in it. So It is great for me, but makes the figures look unbalanced. That is why I am dead against a national rebanding survey, then they can change it

claytz

I'm a little confuse with the banding of my strret and in a dilema of what to do....!!
My street has a mix of 3,4 and 5 bed detatched houses... in bands D, E and F respectively. Mine, a 3 bed is in Band D, but across the road there is a bigger 4 bed in the same band.... any suggestions anyone?
Is it worth going thru' the re-claim process or not?

nomoneytoday

They will only look at your appeal, not the neighbours.

Go ahead and query it