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Adrian Childs

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507 total appearances

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The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Okay, so you challenge it.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Inherent in that is that it might end up going up.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Michelle, we live in a row of 15 stone cottages.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

They are grade two listed in a conservation area.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

All the cottages are council tax B. There's one house in the middle, but exactly the same as the others is band A. How can I challenge it?

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

How can I challenge it, please?

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Minesh, I've been disputing my band with the local council and not getting anywhere.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

I had a new build from 2013 on a semi-detached and the neighbour is band B, whereas I'm band C. How is this possible?

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

It's a semi-detached.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

How can there be any logic to it?

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

We don't look for logic.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Nicola, re-challenging banding in a new build house, in terms of finding similar properties, which are the implication being that the new build is different to the surrounding ones.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Can I use, say, a house built in the 1970s?

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

It feels like new builds get higher banding just because they're new.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

And when you get the banding notification, there's absolutely no explanation of how it was determined.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Willow, I need to change my band.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

I need to change my band.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

I've no idea where to start finding the price of my property from years ago.

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

Willow's situation is they're in a row of terrace houses, which are in band B, and the rest of the very long road is in band A. OK, so she's in band B, everyone's in band A. If your house has not been bought or sold since 1993...

The Martin Lewis Podcast
Council Tax Cost Cutting Special: 5 ways to try to cut your bill & possibly get £1,000s back

That's the worst injury ever.