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.

Senedd Constituency and Region

· Ogmore

· South Wales West