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Welcome to the Help pages of the Listings and Decisions search facility.
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Introduction
You can search for listed and decided rating appeals on this site. The following text is
designed to assist you. By clicking on  you are given helpful information.
Short help text is also available if you rest the cursor over .
You can chose to search for council tax valuation and invalidity appeals (for England or for Wales), or for non-domestic rating (NDR) appeals.
By clicking on Appeals listed for hearing, you can find
details of appeals currently listed for hearing.
By clicking on Decisions, you can find decisions from
appeals already heard.
You will be guided to
select from options which will lead you to the appeal(s) you are
interested in.
Appeals listed for hearing
If you want to find a
particular appeal, you should enter the most specific information
that you can, for example, the appeal number or the property's
postcode.
The appeal number is used
by the Tribunal and is shown on all formal notices concerning a
particular appeal.
Some or all of a postcode can be entered. For example, LS8 3PG will find all appeals that match that postcode.
Typing in LS8 followed by a ‘space’ will find all appeals in the LS8 postcode area. Entering just LS8 would find all appeals in LS8 but also variations such as LS80 and LS81.
Tribunal Areas
To search for an appeal using either the Billing Authority or Venue fields under
More Options, you will need
to select a specific Valuation Tribunal from the drop down list of
values.
If you are an agent and
you are interested in your own NDR appeals, you can enter your own
postcode or appeal reference.
At this stage, you can perform your search by clicking on Search Now.
For more general searches, you will be able to select from various fields of information
to define your interest. Clicking on More Options allows access to these fields.
Click on Search Now when you have entered your
additional search criteria.
Your search results will be displayed in the form of a table showing the appeal number, the List year, the address of the property, the description (for NDR), the band or rateable value (RV), the hearing date and time, the hearing venue and the agent's name (where appropriate).
If your search does not
find your appeal(s) this is likely to be because the appeal(s) has
not been listed, or is no longer listed for a hearing. You may also
wish to check the information you have typed in or the criteria
selected.
Decisions
If you want to find a
particular decision, you should enter the most specific information
that you can, for example, the appeal number or the property's
postcode.
The appeal number is used
by the Tribunal and is shown on all formal notices concerning a
particular appeal.
Some or all of a postcode can be entered. For example, LS8 3PG will find all appeals that match that postcode.
Typing in LS8 followed by a ‘space’ will find all appeals in the LS8 postcode area. Entering just LS8 would find all appeals in LS8 but also variations such as LS80 and LS81.
Free Text
To perform a free-text search, click on the Go To Search button and Help is available on the next screen.
Tribunal Areas
To search for a decision using either the ‘Billing authority’ or ‘Hearing
venue’ fields under More Options, you will need to select a specific
valuation tribunal from the ‘Tribunal areas’ drop down list of values.
If you are an agent and you are interested in your own NDR appeals, you can enter your own postcode or appeal reference.
At this stage, you can perform your search by clicking on Search Now.
You can opt to search for
- All Decisions
(which include short, standard reasons for decision, or
- Decisions with full
reasons; these are usually produced for decisions that have
been argued before the tribunal and, in the case of NDR appeals include
Keywords (except for 1995 list appeals). [Keywords are controlled terms to
describe the case and are added by the tribunal clerks. More Help on
Keywords is available at the end of this document.]
At this stage, you can perform your search by clicking on Search Now.
For more general searches, you will be able to select from various fields of information to define your interest. Clicking on More Options allows access to these fields.
Click on Search
Now when you have entered your additional search criteria.
For NDR only, to search using Keywords, click on the Go to Keywords button.
Your search results will be displayed in the form of a table showing the appeal number, the List
year, the address of the property, the description, the rateable value (RV) given in the decision, the decision date and the tribunal area. When Keywords have been used you will also have an option to view them.
By clicking on the appeal number, you will be able to read the decision and its reasons.
If your search does not find the decision(s) you want you may wish to check
the information you have typed in or the criteria selected. Please note, some
appeals are settled by the parties before they are decided at a hearing.
Billing Authorities
From 1st April 2009
Bedford Billing authority 0205 has changed to Bedford unitary authority 0235
Cheshire West and Cheshire 0605, 0620, 0635 has changed to Cheshire 0665
From 1st April 2010
0840 Cornwall
Formed from0805 - Caradon District Council0810 - Carrick District Council0815 - Kerrier District Council0820 - North Cornwall District Council0825 - Penwith District Council and 0830 - Restormel Borough Council
1355 Durham Formed from1305 - Chester-le-Street District Council 1315 - Derwentside District Council 1320 - City of Durham Council 1325 - District of Easington 1330 - Sedgefield Borough Council 1335 - Teesdale District Council 1340 - Wear Valley District Council
2935 Northumberland Formed from2905 - Alnwick District Council 2910 - Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council 2915 - Blyth Valley Borough Council 2920 - Castle Morpeth Borough Council 2925 - Tynedale District Council 2930 - Wansbeck District Council
3245 Shropshire Formed from3205 - Bridgnorth District Council 3210 - North Shropshire District Council 3215 - Oswestry Borough Council 3220 - Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council 3225 - South Shropshire District Council
3940 Wiltshire Formed from3905 - Kennet District Council 3910 - North Wiltshire District Council 3915 - Salisbury District Council3925 - West Wiltshire District Council
0660 Cheshire East Formed from0610 - Congleton Borough Council 0615 - Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council 0630 - Macclesfield Borough Council
0240 Central Bedfordshire UAFormed from0215 - Mid Bedfordshire District Council 0220 - South Bedfordshire District Council
Keywords
Keywords are 'controlled' words and phrases that the clerk adds when writing the tribunal's reasons for decision. For each decision, the clerk selects the Keywords that are most relevant and important in saying what the case was about.
Controlling Keywords provides consistency. For example, decisions about a property in the
countryside might talk about a countryside, village or rural location.
In a free-text search, you would have to try all three and possibly others to be sure of covering all the possibilities. The preferred Keyword rural would be attached to each appeal if this was an important factor in those cases.
You can only use Keywords to search for full decisions on 2000 and 2005 List appeals.
The Keywords are arranged in eight separate categories and the words in each list are arranged alphabetically.
You can scroll through each list by using the up and down arrows.
In a category, you can select your chosen Keyword by simply clicking on it. To choose more than one word in a particular category, hold down the Ctrl key on
your keyboard and `left-click' on your mouse for each additional
word.
To view your chosen Keywords, click on the Next Page
button. Your Keywords will be displayed under each respective
category.
To change your selected
Keywords, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and 'left-click'
on your mouse.
By selecting the appropriate radio button, you can search for relevant decisions using all or any of the Keywords selected.
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