In the event that there is a change of use in a property, whether it is the responsibility of Scottish Water to change a water meter that i…

When a dwelling stops being a dwelling, the local rating assessor will remove the Council Tax banding from the premises record and the local authority will automatically stop charging Council Tax based on unmeasured household water industry charges that would have been included with the Council Tax demand. If the premises is now being used for non-household purposes, the local assessor will create a new rateable value for the premises, triggering Scottish Water to add the premises to the non-household retail market – at which point the occupier of the premises will be charged non-household charges by a service provider licenced to operate in the water industry’s retail market.
If a non-household premises becomes a dwelling, the assessor will give the premises a Council Tax banding and the local authority will automatically start to charge unmeasured household water charges. If the premises is only used as a dwelling, the removal of the premises from the local assessor’s record of non-household premises will prompt Scottish Water to remove the premises from the non-household retail market and non-household charges will end.
In some instances part of a non-household premises may be converted into a dwelling or part of a dwelling may be converted for non-household use. In these instances either separate household and business charges may be applied or, in some situations, a water meter may record the water used in the dwelling and the business, in which case the occupier of the business will be charged for all of the water used by the business and the dwelling. Where the household water use is included in a metered bill, Scottish Water will instruct the local authority to stop applying unmeasured household charges.