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Residential Homes Rate Relief is an application-based rate relief that provides 100% relief to properties that meet the eligibility criteria. It is your responsibility to notify Land & Property Services (LPS) of any change in circumstances that may affect your application.

How to qualify for Residential Homes Rate Relief

To qualify for this rate relief all or part of your property must be used wholly or mainly for one or more of the following purposes:

• the provision of residential accommodation for the care of persons who have an illness or the after-care of persons who have an illness
• the provision of facilities for training or keeping suitably occupied persons who have an illness or persons who have an illness
• the provision of such accommodation of facilities as are mentioned in the previous two points for disabled persons not falling within that sub-paragraph
• the provision of personal social services for disabled persons
• the provision of facilities under section 15 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945

How to apply for Residential Homes Rate Relief

If your property is classed as a nursing or residential home, and you wish to apply for Residential Homes Rate Relief, under Article 31B of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, you should complete and return the following application form to LPS.

Download the LPS application form for residential home status (PDF, 522K).

Returning completed application forms

Completed application forms should be returned to LPS at the following address:

Land & Property Services
Application Based Rate Relief
Lanyon Plaza
7 Lanyon Place
Town Parks
Belfast
BT1 3LP

Annual review of Residential Home Rate Relief

A successful award will be reviewed at the beginning of each rating year. LPS will issue a review questionnaire at the beginning of each rating year. To ensure your award is continued you must complete and return the review questionnaire. Failure to do so will result in the Residential Home Rate Relief being cancelled. If you misplace or do not receive your review questionnaire you can contact the LPS Application Based Rate Relief team using the contact details below.

Further information on Residential Homes Rate Relief

You can contact LPS if you require further information on Residential Homes Rate Relief by using one of the following methods:

• Email applicationbased.raterelief@finance-ni.gov.uk
• Tel 0300 200 7801 (charged at local rate)
• Tel +44 28 9049 5794 if calling from outside the UK
• Text relay 18001 0300 200 7801