...to recommend to Full Council that the Empty Homes Premium be set at the maximum levels allowed in the legislation where the property has been empty for 1, 5 or 10 or more years, the Council Tax Exceptional Hardship Policy remain unchanged with a fund of £30,000, and the Local Council Tax Support Scheme be amended to disregard 100% of War Disablement Pensions and War Widow's Pensions in the calculation of income, and to resolve to note the calculations of the tax base, set the Council Tax Base for 2024/25 at 39,749.5 Band 'D' equivalent properties, and make no changes to the current Local Council Tax Support Scheme except as required by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.