1998 No. 393

RATING AND VALUATION

The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1998

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 42A(3)(c) of the Local Government Finance Act 19881 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 24th March 1998.

Designation of rural areas2

There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 42A (rural settlement lists) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 the parishes and other areas named or described in the second column of the Schedule in the counties named in the first column.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hilary ArmstrongMinister of State,Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

SCHEDULE

Article 2

County

Parish or other area

Bedforshire

Bromham, Clapham, Wootton

Berkshire

Sonning

Buckinghamshire

Burnham, Denham, Gerrards Cross, Iver

Derbyshire

Clay Cross, North Wingfield, Wingerworth

Devon

Lundy

Durham

Great Aycliffe

So much of the unparished area of the district of Chester-le-Street as is bounded by the parishes of Edmondsley, Pelton and Waldridge and lies west of a line drawn from north to south at Ordnance Survey grid reference NZ 426

Essex

Heybridge

Gloucestershire

Chalford, Thrupp

Hereford and Worcester2

Finstall

Isle of Wight

Nettlestone and Seaview

Kent

Boughton-under-Blean, Ditton, East Malling and Larkfield, Hartley, Herne and Broomfield, Kemsing, Newington in the district of Swale, Otford, Snodland, Temple Ewell, Thanington Without

Lancashire

Wilpshire

Leicestershire

Ibstock, Thurnby

Norfolk

Hoveton, Walsoken

South Yorkshire

Laughtun-en-le-Merthen

Suffolk

Tuddenham St. Mary

Surrey

So much of the district of Runnymede as is green belt land within the meaning of the Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 19383

Warwickshire

Binley Woods

(This note is not part of the Order)

Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 amends the Local Government Finance Act 1988 to make provision for mandatory relief from non-domestic rates for certain general stores and post offices, and discretionary relief for hereditaments used for purposes beneficial to the local community, in certain rural settlements in areas designated as rural areas by order of the Secretary of State. The rural settlements are to be identified by reference to lists drawn up by billing authorities.

Article 2 of this order designates areas in England for the purposes of these provisions, additional to those designated by S.I.1997/2792.