Owner/Occupiers. If the relevant long lease or freehold property Owner is part of the Same Group as the Occupier BID Levy payer for any rateable Hereditament over £400,000 then the Occupier / Property Owner BID Levy shall be fixed at 0.325% of RV using the 2017 rating list as at 1 April 2021 for that relevant interest;
Owner/Occupiers. We will consider property ownership as part of assessing an applicant’s housing needs and their circumstances. We will take into account the ownership and/or value of heritable property owned by the person applying for housing in accordance with Section 5 of the 2014 Act, by a person who normally lives with the applicant, or by a person who it is proposed will live with the applicant. Relevant guidance from the Act includes: Heritable property will include land, as well as anything built on land, and can be property currently owned, or that has previously been owned, in Scotland, the rest of the UK or abroad. This means that if the applicant, or a current or future member of the household, currently owns land or property or previously owned land or property, this can be taken into account when deciding on the applicant’s priority for the allocation of social housing. This applies to existing tenants as well as new applicants. We will not take into account property ownership in the following circumstances: • in cases where the property has not been let, but the owner cannot secure entry to the property. This could, for example, be where it is not safe to enter the property due to severe structural faults or where there are squatters living in the property; • where it is probable that occupying the property will lead to abuse from someone currently living in the property or from someone who previously resided with the applicant whether in that property or elsewhere; • where occupation of the property may endanger the health of the occupants and there are no reasonable steps that can be taken by the applicant to prevent that danger; and • we will look at each case individually and supporting evidence will be required before an applicant is admitted to the housing list.
