Application for variation in rural rating

This form allows you to list properties which you wish to be rated as Rural 1.

General conditions:

• The properties must be farmed as a single enterprise;
• The properties must total 40 hectares in area;
• Each property must be more than 2 hectares in size;
• The properties must be all primarily used for farm purposes*.

*As defined under the Valuations of Land Act 1960, land used primarily for carrying on one or more of the following businesses or industries, grazing (including agistment), dairying, pig farming, poultry-farming, fish farming, tree farming, bee keeping, viticulture, horticulture, fruit growing, the growing of crops of any kind.

Council may require further information in order to determine whether this application complies with the provisions of the Local Government Act 1989.

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