apparently this is in sole discretion of United Utilities and the local valuation office tell me that their system regards to this is outdated. United Utilities tell me that they are enforced to use the RV via the goverment, I say United Utilitys are telling porkies and are using this policy because they know that sod all can be done by the end user to change their rates if it's too high against a property of the same ilk further down the road.
Balls!
As far as i'm concerned they go on about having a meter installed but won't take it out after 13 months and therefore if the property is sold on then the new occupants still have pay their bill via the meter, this wrong and they should levy a charge of £15/20 to have the meter taken out and then payment should go back as umetered.
Why the hell should Joe public pay for waste water that runs down the council sewers when Joe public is already paying council taxes for this? house owners don't own the roads thats down to the council.
What a f**ked up country we live in.
Rant over, going to take a shower. :-)