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Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Council Tax premiums on second and long-term empty homes
Cabinet recommended to Council that second home and standard long-term empty premiums stay at 150% from April 2026, that the premium on homes empty for over five years rise by 25% a year up to 300%, rising from 200% to 225% from April 2026 and then to 250% from April 2027, and that two new premium relief categories be added to the discretionary relief policy.
Communities Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Council Tax premiums on second and long-term empty homes
The Committee supported the review and its recommendations for full Council on 8 July 2025. It also agreed to set up links with estate agents, auctioneers and other industry groups to tell them about the outcome, and to receive an update report in 12 months.
County Council. Full Council sets the budget and council tax and approves major plans.
Council Tax premiums on empty and second homes
By majority vote, the Council decided that: second home and standard long-term empty premiums stay at 150% from April 2026; premiums on long-term empty homes empty for over five years rise by 25% a year up to a maximum of 300%, so they go from 200% to 225% from April 2026, 250% from April 2027, and so on; and two new categories of premium relief are added to the Section 13a discretionary relief policy.
Items are linked when their titles share most of their words and they fall within 18 months of each other. Councils don't number reports across meetings, so a few links may be wrong, and a step may be missing if its title changed a lot. Each step links to the meeting, where the council's own papers are.