Eligibility criteria for the reduced farm rate is for property holders whose land classifies as farm land.
Farm land means any rateable land:
a) that is not less than 2 hectares in area; and
b) that is used primarily for grazing (including agistment), dairying, pigfarming, poultry-farming, fish-farming, tree-farming, bee-keeping, viticulture, horticulture, fruit-growing or the growing of crops of any kind or for any combination of those activities; and
c) that is used by a business:
i. that has a significant and substantial commercial purpose or character; and
ii. that seeks to make a profit on a continuous or repetitive basis from its activities on the land; and
iii. that is making a profit from its activities on the land, or that has a reasonable prospect of making a profit from its activities on the land if it continues to operate in the way that it is operating.
Council would like to thank all property owners who have participated in the LMR program.