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Councils are now assessing any stables that they identify are not within the curtlege of the garden - though there is no legal defintion of "Curtlege" - for liability to pay non-domestic rates. The issue of business use is a separate issue and the council agree this is not an issue in my case...

Like many people who have stables at home I suddenly received a bill for non-domestic rates which have been backdated for five years. With support from my MP I have been through the appeals process and unfortunately through a technicality failed to win the appeal. However under the Localism...