§ Mr. GregoryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish, by valuation office, the number of appeals received relating to rating valuation assessments under the uniform business rate; from what date he expects the first appeals to be held at the North Yorkshire tribunal; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. KeyThe table shows the number of proposals by ratepayers to alter their 1990 rating assessments, to insert new entries in the rating list and to alter assessments which have been revised by the valuation officer for each valuation office in England in respect of the period from 1 April to 31 December 1990.
The North Yorkshire valuation and community charge tribunal is currently completing hearings of residual appeals against the 1973 valuation list. It expects to commence hearings of appeals against the 1990 rating list from May.
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Numbers of proposals received for alteration of 1990 rating lists Office (1) (2) (3) Alnwick 3,429 1 195 Aylesbury 6,323 1 82 Barking 2,703 2 36 Barnet 3,041 1 7 Barnstaple 2,603 32 183 Basingstoke 4,406 — 96 Bath 2,774 2 9 Bedford 4,477 — 52 Birmingham 13,745 22 44 Bolton 4,376 2 112 Boston 2,746 22 60 Bournemouth 5,646 66 55 Bradford 5,442 2 102 Brighton 5,893 12 51 Bristol 6,612 13 102 Bromley 6,835 10 44 Burnley 5,750 1 70 Cambridge 4,654 6 75 Camden 5,433 11 16 Carlisle 3,736 276 37 Chatham 3,972 — 142 Chelmsford 6,920 — 11 Chester 4,692 2 23 City of London 10,099 5 448 Colchester 6,344 32 55 Coventry 4,751 — 61 Crewe 4,559 — 45 Darlington 4,153 1 62 Derby 4,472 — 88 Doncaster 4,490 — 45 Dorchester 3,045 248 40 Durham 3,523 — 29 Ealing 5,068 6 69 Eastbourne 3,381 2 52 Enfield 4,438 1 63 Exeter 5,465 186 89 Folkestone 4,153 67 47
Office (1) (2) (3) Gloucester 5,361 25 229 Greenwich 5,276 4 42 Grimsby 2,467 2 129 Guildford 5,310 — 29 Halifax 5,916 — 188 Hammersmith 5,235 13 29 Harrogate 4,465 2 123 Harrow 4,661 1 116 Hull 4,861 15 140 Ipswich 4,669 109 23 Islington 6,660 46 79 Kensington & Chelsea 4484 8 45 Kidderminster 5,709 — 132 Lambeth 2,854 9 23 Lancaster 6,286 29 44 Leeds 8,941 — 88 Leicester 4,645 — 45 Lichfield 5,630 2 42 Lincoln 3,402 — 78 Liverpool 10,083 1 80 London Support Unit 6,333 12 77 Loughborough 3,484 5 25 Manchester 7,655 11 116 Mansfield 3,269 — 55 Matlock 3,695 16 51 Merton 4,656 4 113 Middlesbrough 7,634 1 74 Newcastle 7,288 7 22 Northampton 5,254 — 36 Norwich 6,782 18 157 Nottingham 5,164 — 69 Oxford 7,111 20 26 Peterborough 5,491 19 128 Plymouth 3,815 325 28 Portsmouth 4,956 77 72 Preston 4,596 1 90 Reading 7,602 — 146 Redbridge 3,530 — 21 Reigate 6,078 1 117 Richmond-upon-Thames 3,447 6 110 Rochdale 4,188 4 22 St. Albans 5,518 2 199 St. Austell 5,498 1,826 70 Salford 5,500 — 31 Sandwell 3,833 2 46 Sheffield 5,947 — 53 Shrewsbury 4,202 6 60 Southampton 6,581 2 147 Southwark 3,603 1 21 Stevenage 5,245 — 49 Stockport 4,316 8 16 Stoke-on-Trent 5,691 1 29 Sunderland 7,530 14 351 Swindon 3,596 4 34 Taunton 4,642 5 129 Tower Hamlets 3,549 — 59 Tunbridge Wells 5,105 3 159 Ulverston 3,637 476 26 Wakefield 5,263 — 99 Warrington 6,315 — 145 Warwick 4,554 12 140 Westminster 15,503 47 85 Wolverhampton 4,919 5 41 Worcester 6,071 — 123 Worthing 5,104 52 106 York 5,224 216 74 Central List 17 — — 1Proposals made against the 1990 rating lists. 2Proposals to insert a new entry into the 1990 rating lists. 3 Proposals made against VO notices to alter the 1990 rating lists.