Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Bill 2006

Public bill · Government · Presented

The measure would allow businesses in defined areas to create Business Improvement Districts, subject to a vote, and fund extra cleaning, events, promotion, street improvements and similar projects through a compulsory levy on commercial properties. Local authorities would collect the levy and pass the money to a business-led company, while continuing their existing services. It would also introduce levies on newly constructed properties and adjust valuation rules, raising additional income for local authorities and addressing how rates apply to new buildings.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of Business Improvement Districts within the functional areas of rating authorities, to enable schemes under which projects, services and works are carried out for the benefit of those districts, to finance the schemes by providing for the imposition and collection of a levy on rateable properties situated in those districts, to improve local authority funding by providing for the imposition and collection of levies applicable in relation to newly constructed properties, to amend the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2003 for all such purposes, to amend the Valuation Act 2001, and to provide for related matters

Last updated 13 April 2018