Decision details
Council Tax and Long Term Empty Homes in Wales
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To provide Members with background information on Welsh Government proposals to amend legislation allowing local authorities the discretion to charge additional council tax on long term empty properties in Wales.
To recommend that Members support the proposals, in principle, as set out in the consultation paper, which could provide the Council, if it wished, to vary Council Tax above the standard levels.
Decision:
As per the recommendations.
Officers to take cognisance of WLGA’s response in preparing Flintshire County Council’s reply to the consultation.
Report author: David Barnes
Publication date: 17/10/2012
Date of decision: 16/10/2012
Decided at meeting: 16/10/2012 - Cabinet
Effective from: 25/10/2012
Accompanying Documents:
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