In message <[log in to unmask]>, at
11:31:45 on Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Alan Stead <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hi Roland
>This can hardly be regarded as covert if you knew they were going to do it.
I didn't know they were going to do it, I merely suspected they might.
And did in fact bump into the chap (because by then we were living
there).
>Anyway surveillance within a domestic premise is not permitted for
>Local authorities.
So how can they check that the premises is unoccupied?
>Alan
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>Quoting Roland Perry <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> In message
>> <[log in to unmask]>, at
>> 09:18:45 on Thu, 5 Aug 2010, "Bradshaw, Phillip"
>> <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>> Last year I occupied two houses for a period of eight weeks during a
>>> staggered move. As far as I was concerned the one I 'lived in' was the
>>> one with the lower Council Tax band so I had the empty property relief
>>> on the other. That was the only deciding factor which seemed relevant to
>>> me ....
>>
>> This happened to me five years ago (I was moving from rented, into a
>> purchased house that I was doing up). The rule is, strictly, that a
>> house must be completely unoccupied, with no furniture at all, to get
>> the exemption. And guess what - the council will perhaps send round a
>> snooper to peer in the windows and check.
>>
>> I wonder if this counts as 'directed surveillance'? It is, according to
>> a lawyer on another list I subscribe to. I wonder if Poole have
>> reviewed/stopped this practice too?
>>
>> In my case the chap had a wasted journey, because he only arrived after
>> I'd fully moved (and I'm sure after I'd told the council's other hand
>> that this had happened, and the other house had been fully signed over
>> to the next occupant).
>> -- Roland Perry
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