The decision will not impact the authority’s finances however as business rates go directly into the Welsh Government’s None-Domestic Rates Collection Pool to be redistributed to all 22 Welsh local authorities.
Two significant debts were considered irrecoverable by Flintshire Council’s Cabinet.
The first was £33,394.28 owed by the former owners of the historic Druid Inn in Pontblyddyn.
The 200-year-old coach house ceased trading as a pub in 2020. Owners The Druid Inn (Mold) Ltd went into insolvency in March 2023 and Flintshire County Council sought to recover the owed business rates.
But with the company now liquidated and still owing unsecured creditors almost £85,000 there is no realistic prospect that…