All aboard for the joys of hereditament courtesy Alan Bradford VOA
All that is is a unit af rateing assessment, RV is the annual value of the hereditament
Valuation date – 2 years before a list goes live – 1 April 2008 for 1 April 2010 list
Rateable Occupier – seems to be the problem area [...]
BSG
BSG-VOA Fibre Rates Workshop
INCA Next Steps
With reference to Lord Carter’s Offer Letter to CBN Ltd regarding INCA – see http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/letter-CBN-June09.pdf
And cached here – letter-CBN-June09
There follows an open letter to one of the original project promoters regarding how best to ensure that INCA delivers Digital Britain.
Shaun,
Several key points and actions came out of the INCA ad-hoc pre-board meeting in Leeds on [...]
NGA – the Open Closed Contest
Yesterday’s BSG COTS Steering Group meeting made some excellent progress in terms of firming up the definition of what is inside and outside scope for the overall COTS programme.
Something that was apparent as regards NGA is that we can see emerging a bipolarity between open access infrastructure with clear separation between access and services on [...]
Just NextGenUs 2009 Hull Videos
After Stakhanovite efforts by Pharos VJs Kizzy and Reg, plus a little Youtubery from the NextGenUs team, here are some highlights of the Colloquium and BSG COTS event:
First up, a 9 minute overview
Some early arrivals meet and greet – [20 Seconds]
More Convergence Conversations – [19 Seconds]
People Create Change – [25 Seconds]
NGA will be a Patchwork [...]
JustNextGenUs Hull Colloquium and BSG COTS Meeting
A huge thank you to the 100+ people who travelled (from as far afield as Canada) to attend locally in Hull and remotely yesterday.
Based on the success of the day and the overwhelmingly positive feedback received, we have decided to organise a rolling series of regular colloquia and would encourage communities and champions to get [...]
Just NextGenUs 2009 Hull
Registrations are now being taken for the combined FttH Colloquium and BSG COTS Meeting in Hull on Thursday 3rd September.
This event is designed to bring together the broadest (sic) range of stakeholders who share a common interest and purpose in bringing about world-leading Next Gen Access for the whole UK.
Whether you are Community, Consumer, Public [...]
Red Letter Diary Date
WHEN: THURSDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER 2009
WHERE: HULL GUILDHALL and COUNCIL CHAMBER
WHAT: NextGenUs FttH Colloquium and BSG COTS Meeting, in partnership with FibreStream and Hull City Council
WHO: People Like Us with an Interest in the Future of Next Gen Digital Britain -
Whether you are Community, Technology, Industry, Investor or Consumer
PUT THIS ONE IN YOUR DIARY and more [...]
Latter Day Window Tax
FAO BSG Members who are meeting with VOA next week:
Back in 1696, the taxing “powers that be” had a great idea or so they thought
- everyone with any money has windows in their homes so let’s tax that glass!!
- on the surface, the idea has merit (from a tax collectors point of view anyway) in [...]