Decision details

(Report of Director of Finance and Transformation)

The report gave details of new and renewal applications for discretionary rate relief and discretionary rural rate relief which were considered in accordance with the previously agreed criteria for determining such applications.

Following consideration by the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Finance, Innovation and Property resolved that:

(1)                in respect of the re-applications, discretionary rate relief  and discretionary rural rate relief be awarded as set out at Annexes 3 and 4 to the report respectively, with effect from 1 April 2017 (except in the case of Tonbridge Juddians RFC where relief be awarded from 6 April 2016) and time limited to 31 March 2018; and

(2)                the new application for discretionary rate relief be determined as follows:

Mereworth Village Hall Committee, Mereworth Village Hall, 149 Butchers Lane, Mereworth – no discretionary rate relief be awarded.

[Councillor N Heslop declared an Other Significant Interest as a member of the Board of the Bridge Trust and withdrew from the meeting during consideration of item (1)]