I live in a road that has three and “four” bedroom semi detached houses built in the 1960’s.
At that time the Council Rating Officer visited new homes to assess the Rateable Value of Homes to determine how much the home owners or tenants would have to pay in Rates to the council each month.
The number of bedrooms and the number of socket outlet were both assessed with the Rateable Value increasing with additional bedrooms and sockets.
The three bed houses had one single socket in each bedroom. The “four bed” houses were sold as houses with three bedrooms and a box room, only the bedrooms had a socket which was a single, the box room did not have a socket although it is big enough to use as a single bedroom.
This kept the Rateable Value down leading to a saving on what had to be paid to the council for many years. Fifty years later some of the four bed houses still only have three single sockets upstairs.
I live in a road that has three and “four” bedroom semi detached houses built in the 1960’s.
At that time the Council Rating Officer visited new homes to assess the Rateable Value of Homes to determine how much the home owners or tenants would have to pay in Rates to the council each month.
The number of bedrooms and the number of socket outlet were both assessed with the Rateable Value increasing with additional bedrooms and sockets.
The three bed houses had one single socket in each bedroom. The “four bed” houses were sold as houses with three bedrooms and a box room, only the bedrooms had a socket which was a single, the box room did not have a socket although it is big enough to use as a single bedroom.
This kept the Rateable Value down leading to a saving on what had to be paid to the council for many years. Fifty years later some of the four bed houses still only have three single sockets upstairs.
