Nick Cooper has been involved with various aspects of the rating system since 1992. During the 1990s he worked for DOE and then DETR on rating policy including the transitional relief scheme, the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (village shop rate relief), the Rating Valuation Act 1999 (the treatment of repair in rating) and was Secretary to the 2nd Wood Committee on the Rating of Plant and Machinery.
Promoting and enhancing best practice and technical expertise.
In 2000 he joined the
Valuation Office Agency where he specialised in receipts and expenditure
valuations and from 2006, was Valuation Officer for Merseyside and Cheshire. He
now works for the Department of Levelling Up, Housing
and Communities.