Issue - meetings
Discretionary Rate Relief in excess of £10,000
Meeting: 25/07/2024 - Cabinet (Item 12)
12 Discretionary Rate Relief in excess of £10,000 
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Purpose
To consider an application for discretionary rate relief for the 2023/2024 Business Rates liability in respect of SLM Community Leisure Trust which is in excess of £10,000.
Recommendation
That Cabinet resolves to:
1. Approve the Discretionary Rate Relief application in respect of Cirencester Leisure Centre.
Additional documents:
Decision:
The purpose of the report was to consider an application for discretionary rate relief for the 2023/2024 Business Rates liability in respect of SLM Community Leisure Trust which is in excess of £10,000.
The Leader asked the report author, the Business Manager - Environmental, Welfare & Revenue Service in the absence of the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance Councillor Evemy to introduce the report.
The recommendations were proposed by Councillor Joe Harris and seconded by Councillor Paul Hodgkinson.
Voting Record
6 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstention, 2 Absent/Did not vote
Minutes:
The purpose of the report was to consider an application for discretionary rate relief for the 2023/2024 Business Rates liability in respect of SLM Community Leisure Trust in excess of £10,000.
The Leader asked the report author, the Business Manager - Environmental, Welfare & Revenue Service, in the absence of the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance Councillor Evemy, to introduce the report.
The following points were made:
- The applicant was the previous leisure services provider for the Council.
- Cabinet had previously agreed that it needed to approve as a collective any Discretionary Relief in excess of £10,000 which would otherwise be delegated to the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance.
- The financial period in question was a 4 month period for April 2023 until July 2023 where the total premise charge was £56,323. SLM received the 80% mandatory relief of £45,056 as a charity.
- The balance remaining was for £11,264 which was split between the UK Government picking up 50% of the cost and Gloucestershire County Council picking up 10% of the cost. The total charge to the Council would therefore be £4,505.60.
Cabinet asked to clarify that this was money the Council wouldn’t receive rather than giving out to the applicant. This was confirmed as correct by the Business Manager - Environmental, Welfare & Revenue Service.
The recommendations were proposed by Councillor Joe Harris and seconded by Councillor Paul Hodgkinson.
RESOLVED: That Cabinet
- APPROVED the Discretionary Rate Relief application in respect of
Cirencester Leisure Centre.
Voting Record
6 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstention, 2 Absent/Did not vote