"Granny flats (or what the Treasury calls “property annexes”) will see a 50% cut in council tax."
That was one bit of the news from the chancellor's autumn statement yesterday. At PC on Wednesday night we mulled over a planning application to convert a double garage into an "annex" to use the language on the paperwork. Annex sounds harmless like a small extension to your company's HQ. But one member quickly pointed out that it was was another expression for 'back garden development'. BGD is the process of ripping out the herbaceous borders and the veg patch and getting rich by planting a house. When it happens a lot it makes the neighbourhood very crowded.
So on Wednesday we quickly identified that the so called annex (with bargain basement council tax) was in fact a house, albeit a small one. For someone to live in. Needless to say we are raising it as an issue.
That was one bit of the news from the chancellor's autumn statement yesterday. At PC on Wednesday night we mulled over a planning application to convert a double garage into an "annex" to use the language on the paperwork. Annex sounds harmless like a small extension to your company's HQ. But one member quickly pointed out that it was was another expression for 'back garden development'. BGD is the process of ripping out the herbaceous borders and the veg patch and getting rich by planting a house. When it happens a lot it makes the neighbourhood very crowded.
So on Wednesday we quickly identified that the so called annex (with bargain basement council tax) was in fact a house, albeit a small one. For someone to live in. Needless to say we are raising it as an issue.
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