Agenda item

Report from the Strategic Director of Finance and Customer Services

Recommendations

1.    That the application for Hardship Relief be approved

The Council had received an application for Business Rates Hardship Relief that met the Council’s qualifying criteria. Granting the relief would assist the organisation through a difficult period and it was considered that the loss of the vital service, should support not be provided, would have a significant impact on the more vulnerable communities in the Borough.

The details of the organisation were exempt under Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as to disclose the applicant’s business financial information could jeopardise the reputation of the business and place competitors at an unfair advantage. The details were available to Cabinet Members in exempt Appendix 1 to the report.

Resolved:-

That the application for Hardship Relief be approved.