This will result in an average increase of £2640 to £4400. Another proposal would be to increase all house tax prices by £1000. Although it will take over a year for these prices to rise to this amount, the average price of an English house has doubled already over the past 4 years. In London there were four hundred houses sold worth a million pounds last year compared with one thousand six hundred in 2001. In the south east, middle class families live some of the tens of thousands one million pound homes; these people are likely to be affected the most. The average bill of the poorest householders ranges from £750 a year to about £880 pounds a year. Therefore it would not be right, and for some people, acceptable to increase these prices so vastly and abruptly.

 Depending on the type of house you own, prices there vary according to their different bands. So if your house is over £20,000 then it is in a certain band. But prices have changed since then, a lot. In 1991 an average house of Band A would be £40,000 or over but now its £100,000. Amazingly, then, an average band H house price was £320,000 but now (shockingly) is £750,000. Since January 2006 the average house price had gone up by 9%! Sir Michael Lyons is expected to propose a few changes for the council house department for the better of the poorer house owners.  He is also trying to encourage all house owners to be environmentally friendly and change their rubbish disposing ways.  Is it fair that people who can afford big house should pay so much more than people who cant afford larger houses? But even then they too will have to pay more…

By Kirsty.T and Alisha.S