FOI request (FOIR-785772890)

Council Tax valuation bands

Requested Wed 14 January 2026
Responded Fri 23 January 2026

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Response

The information requested is as follows, apart where specified all information for Q1 & Q2 are from data run 14^th January 2026:

 

1. Bandings

 

A – Official 15043, Provisional 18

B – Official 12623,  Provisional 9

C – Official 7947, Provisional 7

D – Official 5855, Provisional 5

E – Official 2393, Provisional 5

F – Official 868, Provisional 1

G – Official 199

H – Official 36

 

2. Number of dwellings in receipt of Discounts/Exemptions

 

1. SPD’s

 

A – 8544

B – 4736

C – 2418

D – 1511

E – 461

F – 130

G – 23

H – None

 

2. No Class C Exemptions, empty up to 1 year – No Discount applies

 

A – 576

B – 255

C – 147

D – 47

E – 21

F – 5

G – None

H – None

 

3. Long Term Empty Premiums/Exceptions to Premiums

 

Empty 1 year or more – 100% surcharge

 

A – 313      

B – 89

C – 22

D – 26

E – 15

F – 5

G – 1

H – None

 

Empty 5 years or more – 200% surcharge

 

A – 62

B – 5

C – 3

D – 2

E – 1

F – None

G – None

H – None

 

Empty 10 years or more – 300% surcharge

 

A – 9

B – None

C – None

D – 2

F – None

G – None

H – None

 

Exceptions to LTE Premiums

 

A – 28

B – 6

C – 3

D – 4

E – 3

F – None

G – None

H – None

 

4. Other Discounts/Exemptions

 

A – 479

B – 284

C – 195

D – 180

E – 78

F – 40

G – 54

H – 21

 

3)  Net Charge for each Valuation Band for 2024/25, before CTR:

 

A – 20,914,261.42

B – 21,104,033.61

C – 15,293,160.74

D – 12,922,040.32

E – 6,466,270.53

F – 2,830,841.89

G – 777,756.11

H – 101,154.97

 

4)  Number dwellings classed as Second Homes (these include empty furnished properties as well as second homes as the have the same classification and we cannot determine which is which) as @ 31^st March 2024

 

742

 

5)  Hastings Borough Council do hold records of all Valuation Changes received from the Valuation Officer Agency:

NOTICE OF REFUSAL

 

Hastings Borough Council as over 500 files that would require us to manually check whether any of the changes were band reductions, this would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner therefore under S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

 

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

 

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this part of your request.