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Housing: Valuation

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the classification is of a greenhouse located with the curtilage of a domestic dwelling for the purposes of a Valuation Office Agency dwellinghouse or value significant coding. (141737)

Greenhouses are not classified separately within the Valuation Office Agency’s coding system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency’s Dwellinghouse Code Validation Matrix as listed in CT IA 241005. (141774)

A copy of this matrix has been placed in the Library of the House. This was an internal guide made available to VOA staff during the mass data capture exercise that took place in preparation for the (now postponed) council tax revaluation in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what date the Valuation Office Agency’s Dwellinghouse Coding Guide was last updated on the agency’s intranet. (141775)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency’s document Mass Data Capture of Dwellinghouse Codes—FAQ. (141812)

A copy of the document has been placed in the Library of the House and it can also be found on the Valuation Office website:

www.voa.gov.uk.