Dwelling left unoccupied by a full time student

Where a student is the owner of an unoccupied dwelling, the property is exempt if when it was last occupied, it was the sole or main residence of that student, and that no one else, other than students, lived there. The student must be a ‘qualifying person’; that is, he or she must be the person who would be liable to pay the council tax if it were not for the exemption. In some cases, the qualifying person may not have become a student until after changing their main residence, in which case he or she must have become a student within six weeks of leaving the property for the exemption to apply. The exemption only continues for so long as the person remains a student