PHOTO: PHIL WALTER/GETTY IMAGES Unless a purchaser requests that the section is cleaned, you do not have to.
Are we liable for the clean-up of our section after it is forcibly sold by the council to recover rates debt? There are cars that we can no longer take with us.
As you have found out, the Local Government Act 2002 allows councils to demand the sale of a property to recover rates that have not been paid.
A council has to go through a court process to do this but it can result in it eventually applying to the High Court to put the property on the market.
You should have been given six months’ notice that this was going to happen – and it has to go to a public auction or tender.
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