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You can check the band that properties are in at this website:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change

It's a real eye opener.   :o

yes yes yes.

Has anyone seen inside that place? Its grander than a grand thing at a grand competition.

They should pay more, but it does open the old can of worms regarding pensioners in large houses. Which was covered a couple of days ago.

Are the people who bought that place Arabs?

Didn't the council give that place to a Kurdish single parent family while they wait for deportation ?

think you got the title wrong should read

why do we pay more council tax than they do?

;D

Just think how many houses they could build in their back garden now it classed as brown field land! So sad that this has happened I will never be able to afford to buy a smaller house with a big garden (our retirement plan) now.

I heard on the radio yesterday that 84% of new homes build last year in the Weymouth area (near to us) were in back gardens 

who owns it by the way?

It may be big but it's also beautiful  :)

 A bigger building doesn't necessarily mean much more expense for the council.

That was why the poll tax was thought up: more people in premises generally does mean more expense for the council.  Just a very inefficient and politically insensitive way of raising money :)

So right, Barnie! We rattle around in a large family house bought for £3300 in 1959. On a pension.

How does one roughly relate today's price to 1991?  Martin Lewis's brief does not go back far enough.

Just think of the jobs they create - housekeepers, cleaners, maintenance, gardeners and so on