Decision details

Removal of charge from property

Decision Maker: Head of Strategic Finance and Property

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

To remove the charge to permit the owner to sell the property now that the liability to the council has been paid

Decision:

Steven Linnett Head of Strategic Finance and Property acting under authority delegated within Part 3c, paragraph 13.9 of the Council’s Constitution “To administer and manage the councils’s collection fund” has decided to authorise the removal of the charge on the property, there being no Council Tax liability outstanding.

Alternative options considered:

N/A as there is no legal basis to maintain the charge and refusing to remove it would make the council liable for compensation and damages.

Publication date: 13/12/2021

Date of decision: 13/12/2021

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