Please can I request the following information in regards the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
1. Are agricultural buildings exempt from CIL in your area?
2. How many new agricultural buildings have you charged since introducing CIL? Please break this down by year.
3. What has been the chargeable rate of CIL for those agricultural buildings? Please break down the amount you have collected by year.
4. How many (if any) appeals, relief or exemptions have been sought on those agricultural buildings that have been subject to CIL? How many appeals have been successful? Please break down by year.
If required, the definition of agriculture in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is:
“agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes, and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly.