Not quite sure what you mean but it was a private home. There is a video in the link from ITV Meridian covering my story.

Please can you help me? Due to an administration error on my planning application I had been hit with a massive bill from West Berkshire Council for just short of £25k! yes you read that figure correctly. Although West Berks Council has publicly admitted that had my paperwork been filled in correctly I would have been exempt from this charge (this is on video in the link), but they are refusing to pay me this money back or acknowledge that they could have done more to help rather than just hit me with this for want of a better word "gotcha tax" At no point did the Council advise me of any missing paperwork in my planning application, had they done so I could have rectified the situation, in fact they waited until after as they called it "the point of no return" to hit me with this charge, talk about sharp practice! I have also got a letter from The Housing Minister saying this charge can be reviewed at any time, but they won't acknowledge this. I am not the only one in this situation in the area as you will see in the video from ITV Meridian Tonight which is in the attached link. I really need your help please, I am asking you and begging you to please sign this petition for me, and would also be so grateful if you can forward this link to your friends and family and help me. I have contacted my MP and the Ombudsman have been already been contacted. https://chng.it/HyFqckPW. I would like to hear from anyone else who has also been caught out with CIL. https://chng.it/HyFqckPW.

We are talking about a charge on a property for CIL yes, but the case has not gone to court. My friend has had no notification of any courts at all, so guessing the answer to my original question would be only via the courts which has not happened.

It's not a council tax charge, it a CIL charge. It's very complicated and this question I am asking is if for a friend. Basically like me a mistake had been made on a Planning Application relating to CIL. Our local council at no stage advised me or him about the error so we did not get the opportunity to correct it until we had gone past the point of basically no return. I've have posted about my situation before, and due to the bullying and pressure from my local authority had to take a loan out to settle it just short of £25k, I am still fighting to get my money back and am now in debt due to it. My friend however has not not paid and like me is now getting the threats of bailiffs courts prison etc his debt is over £60k. We have a letter from Chris Pincher Housing Minister saying the bills can be revised at any time and the council has publicly admitted that had the paper work been completed correctly both our cases would have been ZERO, yet they are still harassing him, for some reason won't take him to court this is six years down the line for both of us. Now they are saying they are going to put a charge on his property but as yet there has been no court dates which is why I asked can a charge be placed on a property by a Local Authority without a Court hearing. I have loads of links to publicly and can provide a link to the Council meeting where the admit our cases would be ZERO if that is any help.

Thank you can you tell me what a CTAX debt is?

Please can anyone advise if a charge can be placed on a property by a Local Authority without a Court Order?

I have spoken to ACAS before and after. I'll give it a go with the letter see what happens thank you very much

Thanks for your advice but what if I don't want to go back? I honestly don't feel I can with what has happened and the fact that the cause of the problem is still there will cause me even worse problems than I had before. Ideally I would like to know if I am legally entitled to any settlement with out going back. I have spoken with ACAS and I am out of time with making an appeal but that is due to the fact how long it's taken my ex company to sort it out. They did say that I could still appeal but it would be upto the judge? to decide if they will proceed.

The pay that has been sorted was the error that was made by them when they put someone else's sick leave on my payslip and when I queried it, I kept getting told it was sorted but no evidence or amendments and when I went sick I never got the pay. After my appeal it was looked into and paid back. I have had no money since

Thank you @emmzzi for your reply. Nothing offered apart from re-instatement with no loss of service, and mediation which the manager who upheld the grievance has offered to facilitate, but I don't think he has had any experience of this before. I have financial losses as they sold my shares and have charged me a massive £525 handling fee! which to this day I don't understand. The pay has now been sorted. I really don't feel that I can go back there, to be honest I think it will be worse than when I left. My role has been filled by one of the perpetrators and some of her "mates" are also working in the department. It's a small environment and will be overstaffed if I go back, and this was one of the reasons for my concerns with leaving because lack of social distancing with COVID. Plus the main grievance was against the store manager who is still there you can imagine what return will be like. I was signed off for two months with workplace anxiety and stress and I honestly believe this will again affect my mental health. Since I left in January I have not worked so financially have had no income.

Thank you so much. I don't feel that I could possibly go back to work there even though they have offered mediation I think the stress levels would cause me health problems again especially as someone would have to step down to allow me back into my role They have now given me my Christmas bonus vouchers.

I'm not sure what you mean? the appeal was internal held by a senior manager

Hi everyone, I've had issues with my employer and this has resulted in me resigning on a constructive dismal grounds. In brief My wages were wrong and had been for nearly a year. Bullying was going on and not being addressed properly I was on sick leave due to the above and stress with lack of social distancing at my work place. I was not offered any welfare meetings I was not contacted once my sick notes had expired, although I did make contact with the employer nothing was sorted out. Christmas vouchers were withheld Not able to make any contact with HR or ER or even payroll due to all working from home and no phones being answered or diverted. That's just a brief description, so I resigned and raised an formal complaint, believe it or not the only way I could get any response from my company was replying to a post on Linkedin! So here we are 7 months later two appeals and they have finally agreed with me and offered my job back with no break of service etc. I'm not sure I can go back as the people who caused me these problems are still employed and in fact one has taken over my role, so you can see if I go back to my old position so would have to move out or step down. I can just imagine how that will go. So my question is am I entitled to any cash compensation? I have now received a letter confirming they have upheld my appeal and offering me my position back, and I have an apology

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How are you getting on?

I'm still around

Unfortunately we lost our appeal and had to pay just short of £25,000.00 by the time they added interest. I had evidence against our local authority showing that they were not be consistent on who they were informing about the CIL charge, had copies of letters etc and we still lost. My advice would be start making some payments otherwise the interest will get out of hand, our case originally with £20k with interest it was just short of £25k. Good luck and please let me know how you get on, as I am hoping one day someone will find that there is some way of reclaiming.

Thank you all for your reply's, we are now awaiting an answer from the Ombudsman which hopefully should be any day now. Yesterday I received a call from the Council advising that they would be visiting my property today and issuing a stop notice. Today I come home from work to find said "stop notice warning" attached to a piece of wood hammered into my front garden next to the path with all our details on and the fact that we are in debt to the council for the amount above. Two copies were also put through my letter box, an email was also sent which advised the time the notice was served where it was placed and it also stated that they identified themselves to my neighbour and they quoted his house number!!! So I am now livid as all my neighbours will now know my business plus any passers by, surely this breaches my data protection? Please can anyone advise if I need to leave this notice out as it's unclear if it needs to be on full display to the world and it wife, I am worried if I remove it we will incur more fines?

We have found two cases where they have not validated the planning permission because the same forms were not submitted, we have ask why we did not receive the same duty of care but have not really had an answer to this question, it is well documented that there are problems within this area of CIL. I just don't understand how our application has been treated so differently. How am I to know that a form has not been received if I am not told?

Yes I did but have put him on hold while I try and appeal the decision with the local authority

Does anyone have any knowledge on this please, just about to go to a stage three appeal and could really do with some help as I am sinking...

Hello everyone hope life is good for you all

Has anyone had any dealing with Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)?? We have received a demand for a Community Infrastructure Levy for the sum of £23187.50 which has come as a great shock to us. We were not aware of any new procedure in dealing with this CIL charge and it is a genuine oversight on our part that we did not complete the necessary forms or notify you of the commencement date of the build. We are not builders or property developers and due to this we had employed an agent to act on our behalf with matters relating to our planning application and build. It is not until now that we we aware of this new procedure and I would like to add it still seems to be very complicated. Our planning application was submitted by our agent with the required forms notifying the Council that we were building the extension for our own use and do not intend moving within the foreseeable future, he did advised us that there would be a CIL charge but we would be exempt, at this stage we had no reason as to question him as he is the expert! Once planning was approved we received a letter advising of a CIL charge which was approximately £20000.00 we called our agent and advised him of this and said that if we had to pay this sum of money we would not be starting the extension, his response was that we were exempt as it was for our own use but we did have to live in the property for three years once completed. I advised our agent in January this year (2016) that we were intending to commence work early March and requested that he submit the necessary paperwork the council, he advised that he was just finishing it and would send it in the following day. We received a Invoice for £518.00 from the council which we duly paid, our work started quite a bit later that we had intended due to being let down by builders and weather conditions. Our footing was poured on the 7th of June 2016 and so far we have had two inspections of the work from the Council. To us the lay person this is what was necessary and we were not aware that we were doing anything wrong in this procedure. The works are still being carried and we are a long way from being finished. Currently the extension being constructed is not in a position to be occupied and indeed part of the existing property is not suitable for occupation either, and we currently have no heating not a good position to be in with the weather due to change at any time!. We were lead to believe that as this extension is for our own use we would be granted an exemption to payment of this CIL. The situation has not changed and the payment of over £20,000 to the Council does not appear to comply with the spirit of the Governments intention in setting up the Community Infrastructure Levy. We were lead to believe that the rules specifically allow house extensions for the owners own use to be exempt from CIL and our situation has not changed since our planning application was submitted. We understand now from our conversation that this is also not a given fact. We are going to be seeking some legal advice on this matter in the next few days, and will also make an attempt to complete the complicated appeal form relating to the CIL charge now that I know where to find them, as the demand that we received relating to this matter and the instructions on how to appeal are not clear, in fact my original appeal letter was sent to the wrong place as the instructions advising how to appeal advised appealing via the portal!! (it never said which portal or provided a link on how to get there) We do have a paper trail of correspondance between ourselves and our agent which will confirm what we have mentioned above. Please can anyone give me some guidance on this matter, I am guessing I will need to make a claim for negligence against the agent? the authority have offered a payment plan which is currently 50% of the demand and the final 50% being paid 60 days later but they said that they could possibly spread this over 12 months this equates to over £1600 per month I cannot possibly paid that amount I work part time 24 hours a week in retail and my husbands wages are all accounted for in our daily cost of living.

Just to update you I did take this to tribunal and have WON my appeal.