Housing: Valuation

Mr. Pickles
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath of 29 March 2007, Official Report, column 1731W, on housing: valuation, whether (a) greenhouses and (b) sheds are classified as outbuildings for the purposes of dwellinghouse code 14.

Mr. Woolas
No.

Mr. Pickles
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether a permanent greenhouse is considered by the Valuation Office Agency when establishing the capital value of a domestic dwelling during a valuation.

Mr. Woolas
It depends how much it is worth.