P-06-1257 Reduced Council Tax for private estate properties

This petition was submitted by Mark Henson, having collected a total of 578  signatures.

Text of Petition:                     

Councils should be required to reduce the council tax for the properties that are within "private" estates as all the maintenance costs for communal areas are paid by the homeowners, both leaseholders and freeholders.

Additional Information:

The local councils do not accept responsibility for covering costs of maintenance in common areas on new housing estates. This leads Developer to appoint a Management company to do it at costs that cannot be disputed or challenged by the freeholder. So, increasingly the cost of maintaining these communal areas on newer housing estates is pushed onto homeowners. However, these homeowners do not receive any corresponding reduction in their council tax bills.

Status

This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 27/06/2022.

The Committee considered the petition and noted the petitioner’s frustration with the slow progress of the Welsh Government on this particular issue, however, given that the Welsh Government have committed to implement legislation to improve leaseholders’ right, there is little further the Committee can do at present, therefore Members agreed to close the petition and thank the petitioner.

Full details of the consideration of this petition by the Committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.

It was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 21/03/2022.

Senedd Constituency and Region

• Ogmore
• South Wales West

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