{"id":70369,"date":"2016-05-10T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4641b60bce141f237712245466ec31bc"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:57:22","slug":"news-story-planning-blight-and-your-council-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70369","title":{"rendered":"News story: Planning blight and your Council Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>An actual change to the locality might be the start of scheme works or some other change associated with a scheme which makes a physical difference to the locality. If the scheme is approved by Parliament it is likely to be some time before things happen on the ground. When physical changes do occur a review of Council Tax bands may be appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The law currently only allows compensation for planning blight to be sought from the authority proposing a scheme under the Land Compensation rules, which is nothing to do with Council Tax legislation. You may wish to contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/high-speed-two-limited\">Department of Transport<\/a> direct for further information about the HS2 rail link, for example, or the local authority responsible for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>For Council Tax queries, the Valuation Office Agency can deal with your enquiry. There is no charge for this service. Find the contact details of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/contacting-your-regional-valuation-office\">regional VOA office here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although property values can be affected by the expectation of changes in an area, a Council Tax band alteration cannot be considered until actual changes to the locality occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}