[Michael Williams]

Good morning all,

We are reviewing a property which is entirely a nursery (wholesale and retail) with a current categorisation of ‘Farmland’, it looks like it has always been that way.

How do other Council’s consider nurseries?

[Ian Clayton]

Hi Michael,

At Mid-Western, our nurseries are business. Nursery is not one of the uses that qualifies as Farmland.

515 Categorisation as farmland
(1) Land is to be categorised as
“farmland” if it is a parcel of rateable land valued as one assessment and its dominant use is for farming (that is, 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 or aquaculture within the meaning of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 , or any combination of those businesses or industries) which:

Hope this helps.
Cheers
Ian

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