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The Grampian Assessor is responsible for non-domestic property valuations for rating, council tax banding valuations for domestic subjects and in his role as Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), the compilation of the Electoral Register.
The Grampian Valuation Joint Board is a public body that exists to provide the local taxation service to the three councils within the Grampian area (Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray). It employs the Assessor and his staff in terms of the Valuation Joint Boards (Scotland) Order 1995.
On the following pages you can find out about the Assessor and Electoral Registration Officer and his staff, as well as the Valuation Roll, Council Tax Valuation List and Electoral Register. You can also find out about the Grampian Valuation Joint Board, its Convener and membership.
The Grampian Assessor & Electoral Registration Office covers the local authority areas of Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and The Moray Council and is organised on a divisional basis with offices in Aberdeen, Banff and Elgin.
The headquarters is located at Woodhill House, Westburn Road, Aberdeen where staff cover the Aberdeen Division and the Kincardine & Deeside and Gordon Divisions of Aberdeenshire. Staff at Mitchell Burnett House, Colleonard Road, Banff cover the Banff & Buchan Division of Aberdeenshire and staff at 234 High Street, Elgin cover the Moray Division.
For details of how to contact the Assessor & ERO, Click
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Do not neglect your Vote
Avoid the rush to update your registration details just before an election – keep your registration up to date all year round. If you have moved house or want to change your voting arrangements – in person, by post or by proxy.
Click here
for a form.
If you are an overseas elector and experienced difficulties with receipt and return of postal ballot papers at the recent election, you may wish to appoint a UK based proxy to vote on your behalf in future.
Click here for a form.
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Make sure you have your say in May
The General Election will take place on 6 May 2010. If you are a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen aged 18 or older on 6 May you are entitled to vote, but only if your name is on the electoral register. Households are required to complete a registration form each autumn but if you have not registered, you have until 5pm on 20 April to register. Click here for a form.
If you think that you will not be able to vote in person at a polling station due to employment, health or other reasons, or if you would simply prefer to not attend a polling station, you can apply to vote by post. One in six electors in Grampian already have arranged to vote by post and you click here for a postal vote application form.
All completed forms must be received in the Electoral Registration Office by 5pm on Tuesday 20th April. (Posted 6th April 2010) |
2010 Revaluation
New Revaluation Rateable Values are now effective from 1 April 2010 as part of the statutory 5 year cycle of Revaluations. Rateable values for properties in Grampian are available and can be checked by using the
Valuation Roll search facility. Revaluation Notices confirming these values have been issued to owners and occupiers. The local councils that levy and collect non-domestic rates will be issuing rates bills to ratepayers during April and May. Summary valuations which provide details on the make-up of the rateable values are available for most shops, offices and industrial properties via the search facility. (Posted 1st April 2010). |
Two new online resources are available to electors and ratepayers in Grampian
Electoral Registers
Citizens are urged to check that they are registered to vote prior to the General Election that must take place some time before 3 June. Privacy rules do not enable the register to be made available online, but a list of locations throughout Grampian where the register can be viewed is now
available Click Here.
New Rateable Values
A revaluation of all non-domestic properties takes place on 1 April 2010. Details of the he draft proposed values that are currently available online can be obtained via this link
Click Here (Posted 19 February 2010)
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Register of Electors
The revised register, published on 1 December is available for inspection at the Electoral Registration Offices in Aberdeen, Banff and Elgin. Copies of registers will be distributed to libraries and council offices within the Grampian area during the coming fortnight and will be available for public inspection shortly thereafter.
If you are not on the register, you can apply to be added in the monthly updates by completing and returning a voter registration form.
35,000 postal vote application forms have been issued to electors who indicated that they would prefer to vote by post when they made their 2009 household return this autumn. If you receive a postal vote application form and still wish to vote by post in future elections, please complete and return it as soon as possible.
(Posted 8th December 2009) |
Register of Electors
The deadline for returning annual canvass forms has now passed and the register is being compiled ready for publication on 1 December 2009.
If you have not returned your household canvass form, please contact us (01224 664848) as soon as possible and we will issue you with a fresh individual registration form that you can complete and return to us. Names can be added to the register on a monthly basis so you are not too late to ensure that you can vote in the General Election next year.
(Posted 20th November 2009) |
Electoral Canvass Reminder
Reminders have been issued to 70,000 households in the Grampian area who have not returned their voter registration forms. We are particularly keen to ensure as many returns as possible are made and any household that receives such a reminder is urged to make a return before the deadline of 12 November. Returns can be made by means of the Electoral Registration Officer's dedicated
Freephone or internet registration service, as well as by post. Failure to make a return may mean that your name is removed from the register of
electors. (Posted 3rd Nov 2009) |
Apathy x 100,000?
Over 100,000 households in the Grampian area have not returned their voter registration forms despite the fact there is going to be a General Election before the middle of next year.
Electoral Registration Officer, Ian Milton is also concerned that under the rule that dictates that if a householder does not return a form for two consecutive years their name is removed from the Electoral Register, more than 30,000 electors in Grampian are in danger of being removed from the register before this December.
A second chance to ensure that voters are correctly registered is being offered to those 100,000 households when the Registration Officer posts a reminder to them this week. Householders should ensure that their details are accurate on the Electoral Register by completing and returning the form, or responding using the Registration Officer's dedicated
Freephone or internet registration
service. (Posted 30th Sept 2009) |
Annual Canvass
From 1 September more than 250,000 households in Grampian will receive the annual electoral canvass form.
In most areas these will be delivered by post but in parts of Aberdeen door-to-door canvassers will call with a view to having the form completed on the doorstep. The canvassers will carry photographic ID cards and will be able to offer help to get the form completed.
Forms delivered by post can be completed and returned in the accompanying reply paid envelope. As an alternative, however, where the names printed on the form are correct, householders have the option to respond using the internet or a
Freephone number which is available 24 hours a day.
The new register will be in force for the 2010 General Election and every effort is being made to ensure it is completely up to date. Householders are urged to make a return before 21 September 2009 to avoid unnecessary reminders being issued.
(Posted 7th September 2009) |
New Assessor & ERO Appointed
Sandy McConochie FRICS IRRV retired from the post of Assessor & ERO from Grampian Valuation Joint Board on 31 August 2009, after completing 42 years of service to local government. His successor is Ian H Milton BSc(Hons) FRICS IRRV AEA(Cert). Ian graduated from Aberdeen University in 1984 and joined the Assessor's department in 1991, which at that time was part of the Grampian Regional Council. He was appointed Depute Assessor in 2000.
(Posted 7th September 2009) |
Interactive Services Extended
Each year the Grampian Assessor issues a Return of Information Form (formerly referred to as the "Annual Return" to allow owners and tenants etc to update narrative information held in the Valuation Roll, give details of changes to properties and provide basic rental information. This year however it will be possible to make your return by using the Interactive Services menu on this website. The Return of Information Form option has been added to that menu and is now "live". Returns for Grampian will be issued towards the end of April 2009 so why not respond on-line? (Posted
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