Hi Folks selling a property that was already in 2 flats when we bought it < now the buyers solicitors want the proof permission was granted 40 years ago. Even though we have sent the council tax invoices from the time we bought. 8 years ago, showing the 2 lots of council tax. Any suggestions as the local council are no help
Buildings have permission in records
Planning will also have records
Valuation office agency also keep records which is where coucil tax comes from
After six years it doesn’t matter anyway
No one can make you change it
It can exist if no complaints were put in
We had to rebuild an extension
Had no buildings regs on record so we did it as a retrospective application
You may have to pay for an indemnity insurance. Speak to your solicitor
Valuation office is a good idea
Yes I have been down that route before David . It seems buyers solicitor is -------- We bought off a housing association 8 years ago and 40 years ago I remember the whole row being converted.’
Seems to be planning cannot help, or too lazy
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Building services definitely have records
So do the council tax office
They have to keep records
I was advised that if there is an error on council tax they have to honour it more than the statutory six years
The buyer should be the one buying indemnity insurance as it’s his future risk, not yours.
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All this I am aware of Thanks guys. Just cannot understand why they persist as the council has given 2 council tax bills for last 7 years we have owned
Yes, but its usual for the seller to pay for it.
cost is immaterial considering the benefits
I bought a place a few years ago and it had a strange restrictive covenant in the freehold about the original owner requiring to give consent if an extension was to be built. The building was 100 years old. I thought unlikely there would ever be a problem but I did a bit of digging and found that the family of the original owner was still easily identifiable and were active in recovering their lost property - they had owned a famous distillery in czechoslovakia that had been nationalised by the communists and were now trying to get ownership back! Anyway somone at Lloyds insured against it for £1,000, literally just a round number they made up.
Actually its not that unusual. Many older properties were built on land given by wealthy land-owners who put a number of such restrictive covenants into the deeds. This was before the days of The Town and Country Planning Act and it was a way of regulating development to ensure the area remained residential and kept its character. I own one such property and when I bought it I was told that the original family’s solicitors still needed to be consulted for permission for any extension we might build.
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