Apply for a Farmland rating
To apply to have your land categorised as Farmland for rating purposes, contact our Rates Officer on (02) 4232 0444 or email council@kiama.nsw.gov.au
Our Rates Officer will first discuss Farmland rating with you and provide you with a copy of our Farmland Rating Application Form if it applies.
Farmland category
Under Section 515 of the Local Government Act, land is categorised as Farmland if it:
- is a parcel of rateable land valued as one assessment and its dominant use is for farming. Farming includes the business or industry of:
- grazing
- animal feedlots
- dairying
- pig-farming
- poultry farming
- viticulture
- orcharding
- bee-keeping
- horticulture
- vegetable growing
- the growing of crops of any kind
- forestry
- aquaculture (within the meaning of the Fisheries Management Act 1994), or
- any combination of those businesses or industries) which has a significant and substantial commercial purpose or character, and is engaged in for the purpose of profit on a continuous or repetitive basis (whether or not a profit is actually made).
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Land cannot be categorised as Farmland if it is rural residential land.
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The regulations may prescribe circumstances in which land is, or is not, to be categorised as Farmland.