RICS London NE Association Meeting

Wednesday 14th saw a further Reval 2010 meeting at Chingford, with presentations from the VO (GVO Karen Kendrick and Reval Lead Paul Phillips) on the Reval itself, and me on Business Rates effects including transition and supplementary rates.

Many questions!

South Wales Association

On 12th October, it was off to Cardiff City Hall for the day to the South Wales Association Meeting organised by Association Secretary Helen Stokes.

My first Association event as President and, as it was chaired by Kerry McDermott, it was a chance to present him with the Senior Vice President's chain of office – see photograph below. Revaluation 2010 was the subject and Brian Jones South Wales VO Reval Leader gave a resume of the Reval process Notices and some early indication of changes of rateable value by giving peak values for shops offices and industrials for 2010 Lists compared to the 2005 List values.

I then gave a Business Rates review of the difficulties of this list in Recession Date and other matters including use of the VOA web site and supplementary and empty rates (see photo below). The Welsh assembly has not yet decided whether to have Transition (None for the last 2 lists).

Photo below : South Wales Association Secretary Helen Stokes, Kerry McDermott and Geoff Fisher

Power point slides on both talks will be available on the Association web site.

Welcome bloggers! ....

IRRV President Geoff reporting for 2009/10 making the 4th year of the blog.

I am looking forward to a busy year of official duties including opening conferences, visiting Associations, giving presentations and of course chairing the quarterly meeting of IRRV Council.

2nd October at Bournemouth saw Julie Holden hand over the Presidency after a great year and I am proud and honoured to be your President. Please visit this blog regularly to share in my journeys with photographs and stories - it could include you – with hopefully fun on the way.

See you there.

Best regards

from Geoff

Photos from the Presidential Handover!

Geoff becomes IRRV President

Geoff became IRRV President on Thursday 1st October, following the IRRV Awards Evening 2009 in Bournmouth, during the Institute's Annual Conference.

Geoff will be using this blog to update IRRV members on his numerous activities throughout his Presidential Year - come back soon to read more!

Geoff at Conference

Above : Geoff speaks at IRRV Conference 2009
Above : Geoff pictured at the Bournemouth Annual Conference 2009