Blake Lapthorn solicitors' Rural team held a Rural professionals' breakfast briefing on the legal issues currently facing the Rural sector on 5 February 2013.
The document summarizes key aspects of the national planning policy framework in England, including plan-making requirements for local authorities and a presumption in favor of sustainable development. It discusses the duty to cooperate between authorities and examines recent cases related to plan examinations and appeals. The document also outlines the process for approving nationally significant infrastructure projects and legal updates regarding town and village greens, section 106 agreements, and new cost capping rules for environmental judicial reviews.
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• starter homes - the saga continues
• SDLT changes 2016
• brexit - possible implications
• recent property case law - some points to note.
https://www.brownejacobson.com/sectors-and-services/services/real-estate/planning
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The document discusses the development of MappingGM, a digital mapping tool created to integrate infrastructure and growth data from multiple organizations in Greater Manchester. It aims to help frame critical issues, improve efficiency, and support smart city development. MappingGM launched in 2015 with funding from the Cabinet Office. It now contains over 60 datasets from 29 organizations. The map is used to identify land for development, assess planning applications, and engage the public in consultations on initiatives like the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework. While challenges remain around data availability and coordination, MappingGM helps address infrastructure questions and enables more strategic spatial planning.
Blake Lapthorn green breakfast with Dr. Barbara Hammond of the Osney Lock Hyd...Blake Morgan
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The court found in favor of BSkyB in its lawsuit against EDS regarding a failed IT project. The court found EDS guilty of fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation regarding timelines and plans. EDS claimed the project could be completed in 18 months but knew it had no grounds for that claim. The court also found EDS in breach of contract for failing to provide experienced personnel and services as outlined. BSkyB was awarded £200 million in interim damages, with the potential for higher final damages, as the court found BSkyB would have contracted with another provider and avoided higher costs and delays.
The document summarizes key aspects of the national planning policy framework in England, including plan-making requirements for local authorities and a presumption in favor of sustainable development. It discusses the duty to cooperate between authorities and examines recent cases related to plan examinations and appeals. The document also outlines the process for approving nationally significant infrastructure projects and legal updates regarding town and village greens, section 106 agreements, and new cost capping rules for environmental judicial reviews.
The Ministry of Urban Development is the apex body that formulates and administers rules and regulations related to housing and urban development in India. Its vision is to create economically vibrant, inclusive, efficient, and sustainable urban habitats. Its mission is to promote cities as engines of economic growth by improving urban life through better infrastructure, services, and governance. The ministry oversees schemes like Smart Cities, Swachh Bharat Mission, and policies like the National Urban Sanitation Policy and National Mission on Sustainable Habitat.
At our planning and development club we covered the following topics:
• starter homes - the saga continues
• SDLT changes 2016
• brexit - possible implications
• recent property case law - some points to note.
https://www.brownejacobson.com/sectors-and-services/services/real-estate/planning
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This document provides an overview of a Local Authority Incentive Scheme to encourage more local authorities to publish open data. It outlines the agenda for an event to launch the scheme, including presentations on the benefits of open data, examples of economic impact, and details of the scheme and how local authorities can apply for funding. Local authorities will be incentivized to publish key datasets around public conveniences, planning, and licenses to make the data more consistent, accessible and help address common Freedom of Information requests.
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Blake Lapthorn Rural Professionals breakfast - Oxford - 13 February 2013Blake Morgan
This document summarizes key topics discussed at a Rural Professionals Breakfast event on 13 February 2013. The following were some of the main issues covered:
1. CAP reform uncertainty and the need for transitional arrangements in 2014.
2. Rising concerns about disease control in animals and plants. Bovine TB and Ash dieback were mentioned.
3. Updates on tax changes impacting rural businesses, including restrictions on agricultural ties, business property relief, and the introduction of an annual residential property tax.
4. General discussions on current economic pressures facing the agricultural industry like poor crop yields, rising food and input costs, and land supply shortages.
Result-based agri-environmental payments and the WTO rulesLars Brink
Agri-environmental payment schemes can pay based on actions taken or results achieved (outcomes). Interest in developing result-based schemes seems to be growing. Questions arise about the compatibility of result-based payments with the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. This presentation examines some of these questions in the context of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
Even though the ink is hardly dry on the 2013 CAP reform, thoughts are turning already to the prospects for the next reform. In this presentation I discuss the likely economic context for agriculture in the coming years and some of the main issues - direct payments, market crises and risk management, greening, soil health and climate policy - likely to be on the agenda for the next CAP reform. However, those seeking reform will have to address a widespread sense of 'reform fatigue'.
The presentation given by Simon Dixon Smith of Land Partners at the CLA's CAP Update event held on Tuesday 3 December 2013 at The Bell Hotel, Stilton, near Peterborough.
Mr Dixon Smith discussed how CAP will impact on your farm business, using case study examples.
The document summarizes the European Commission's proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) from 2014 to 2020. Key points include:
- The CAP budget will remain roughly flat in nominal terms but decline in real terms. Funding will be redistributed between Pillars 1 and 2.
- Pillar 1 covers direct payments to farmers. The Commission proposes changes to eligibility criteria and introduces new schemes like greening requirements, payments for young farmers and in less favored areas.
- Pillar 2 covers rural development. It will have less rigid funding categories and increase the minimum spent on environmental objectives.
- Cross compliance rules on statutory management requirements and good agricultural practices will continue to apply across both pillars.
The presentation covers the following topics:
1. An overview of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform for 2014-2020, including the objectives, budget, and key changes.
2. The basic legislative regulations implementing the new CAP reform at the EU and national levels, focusing on rules for rural development, the environment, and direct payments to farmers.
3. Predictions for how funding will be distributed in the European and Greek territories under the new CAP budget for 2014-2020, compared to the previous budget period.
The document summarizes the agenda and presentations for the ADBA Spring Members Meeting held on 18 April 2018 at Bird & Bird LLP in London. Key topics included:
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2. An overview of Bird & Bird LLP as an international law firm and their energy and utilities practice.
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Victoria, Australia has implemented a biodiversity offsetting program since 1989 to regulate native vegetation clearing for development projects. Over time, the program has established policies, improved biodiversity mapping, developed metrics to quantify losses and gains, and established an offset market. Under current policy, developers must avoid and minimize native vegetation impacts, and any remaining impacts require offsets that achieve no net loss of biodiversity. Offsets are secured via long-term agreements that improve the quality and management of lands to increase habitat scores over time, ensuring offsets are permanent and additional to what would have occurred without the development. Recent revisions aim to streamline the process and increase flexibility while maintaining the goal of no net loss of biodiversity.
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This document provides an overview of current agricultural policy and implications of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It discusses:
1) Strategic challenges facing EU agriculture like increasing input costs, global food demand growth, climate change, and reduced public financing.
2) Prospects for farming and land management in England like higher commodity prices but also input costs, strong public support for land access but poor understanding of issues, and need for diverse farm incomes.
3) Successes of current policy like environmental management but also issues like disconnected schemes sometimes working against each other.
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The document discusses the need for businesses to adapt to climate change by managing their carbon emissions and becoming compliant with greenhouse gas reporting regulations. It provides an overview of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Act and thresholds that require mandatory reporting. The summary highlights key actions businesses should take to develop a carbon management plan and reduce emissions, including calculating their carbon footprint, identifying reduction opportunities, and creating an action plan.
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2. "If People have full stomachs they can have the
luxury of multiple problems –
if you are hungry you only have one problem"
Nick Tapp
3. Committed to reduce form filling/bureaucracy
Food self sufficiency
CAP reform – there is a role to play for public money to
compensate farmers for environmental benefits
Bovine TB is the most pressing health problem
I am determined that disease in trees and plants received the
same attention as disease in animals
Owen Paterson, Oxford Farming Conference 2013
4. Outlook
Poor crop establishment
Rising food prices
Increasing concern about disease control
CAP reform uncertainty
Land supply shortage
Rent review uncertainty
Other related rural sectors under pressure eg:
Shooting (game bird cost, PAYE for beaters)
Equestrian – increased feed cost
5. CAP reform:
Current system ends on 31 December 2013
Golden ticket or simple carry forward?
Irish presidency until end of June 2013
Multi-annual Financial Framework
Reforms will not be ready to apply until January 2015
Will need to be transitional arrangements for 2014
Pragmatism to prevail?
6. Current
Ash dieback (chalara fraxinea) preventative measures
remain in force
New Environmental Stewardship handbooks for any
scheme commencing on or after 1 January 2013
Revised nitrate vulnerable zone maps come into force on 1
January 2013
£15 million Rural Community Renewable Energy Fund to
launch by March 2013
House of Lords vote on abolition of Agricultural Wages
Board (February/March 2013)
7. Cattle and Dairy
Regulation 261/2012 – Producer Organisations (POs) in the dairy
sector
DEFRA Consultation closed on 21 January 2013
What legal structures will POs adopt?
Minimum of 10 members or 6 million litres of raw milk delivered
annually?
Pilot badger culls in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire
postponed to Summer 2013
Hampshire and Oxfordshire from 1 January 2013 amongst counties
placed on annual TB testing
January – October 2012 - 31,146 cattle slaughtered - bovine TB
risen by 12% in last year (Farmers Weekly 25 January 2013)
Schmallenberg virus
8. Agricultureal rights of way
Giles v Tarry [2012] EWCA Civ 837
(1) Mohit Dutta (2) Amanda Queiroz v Thomas Hayes [2012]
EWHC 1727 (ch)
9. Agricultural tenancy issues
Morrison-Low v The Executors of Patterson [2012] CSIH 10
Environmental Stewardship Handbooks 2013/Case B Schedule
3 Agricultural Holdings Act 1986
The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order
2012
Spencer and another v Secretary of State for Defence [2012]
EWCA Civ 1368
11. 1. Removing Ag Tie Restrictions
Rasbridge, Re Cefn Betingau Farm, Sept 2012
Restriction in planning agreement
Wales
Appn to Lands Chamber (LPA 1925 s84)
Ag tie related to only part of the land for sale
Highlights:
– Onerous nature
– Rigorous need for market testing
– Onus of proof rests on the applicant
12. 1. Removing Ag Tie Restrictions
General rule:
– Market testing is the indicator of need
– Marketed at lower value for a period time
– No offers indicate no need
Little guidance on market testing
– Welsh Practice Guidance…
– Reasonable period = at least 12 mths
– Advertised to relevant potential tenants/buyers
– Price/rent reflects the ag tie (70-75% OMV)
13. 1. Removing Ag Tie Restrictions
What had been done?
– Marketed Jul 2008 to Sept 2009
– Price reduced initially 28% and by the end 39%
– Price estimate based on agent’s 40yrs experience
– Price based on 9 comparable properties from agent’s
database
– Advertised in local press 13 times
– Advertised on websites (agents, Rightmove etc)
Decision
– Application to discharge dismissed
– Market testing not sufficiently rigorous to establish lack
of demand
14. 1. Removing Ag Tie Restrictions
What were the problems and what was required?
– Of the nine comparable properties only one was subject
to an ag tie
– No detailed objective analysis of the comparable
properties, only basic info given
– Analysis of an experienced valuer inevitably needed and
weight should be given to that expertise
– Failure to keep proper records of interest shown (oral,
emails or www)
– Property should also have been marketed with extra land
not subject to ag tie
– Failure to offer property for rent
15. 1. Removing Ag Tie Restrictions
What were the problems and what was required? (cont)
– No advertisements in specialist farming press
– No explicit adjustments made in price to reflect general
market movement which should have been distinguished
from the ag tie discount element
– An ag tie restriction over part was in practice a restriction
over the whole
Lessons equally applicable to ag ties on planning consents
and in England
16. 2. Agriculture and EIA
General rule: EIA requirement bolted onto the planning system
Exceptions: include agriculture (where works not “development”)
– EIA (Agriculture) (England) (No2) Regs 2006
– Natural England Guidance (NE311) updated – November
2012 following consultation
Importance of complying?
– Accrual of criminal offences > fines
– Accrual of civil sanctions
– Compliance is a condition of the Single Payment Scheme
(cross compliance)
– Also check terms of Envtal Stewardship agreements
17. 2. Agriculture and EIA
Projects covered by 2006 Regs (subject to exemptions and
thresholds):
– Uncultivated land / semi natural area projects
Aim = improve productivity of land uncultivated for 15 yrs
Chemical enhancements
Physical cultivation
Draining land
– Restructuring land holdings
Physical operations
Altering field boundaries
Re-contouring
18. 2. Agriculture and EIA
Before starting project:
– Apply to Nat Eng for screening decision
– 35 day determination period
– If “significant effect on the envt” consent needed
Applicant may ask for a scoping opinion of what ES should
cover
Apply for consent (including ES)
Various appeals available
19. 2. Agriculture and EIA
Criminal offences include:
– Carrying out project without screening decision
– Carrying out project without consent
– Contravening notices (stop or remediation)
– Contravening conditions of a consent
– Knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading
information
21. CGT and Entrepreneurs’ Relief
Disposal of whole or part of business
Contrast disposal of asset of business
Russell v HMRC [2012]
– Only business was land (21h farmed; 6h sold for
development)
– No post-sale change in continuing business
– Fall in profits after sale insufficient
– But what could Mr Russell have done?
Upturn in property market will raise development opportunities
and ER availability more often
22. Inheritance Tax
Agricultural Property Relief
Hanson v HMRC [2012]
First-tier Tax Tribunal held no requirement under legislation for
the land occupied with a farmhouse to be in the same ownership
to get relief
23. Inheritance Tax
Business Property Relief
N V Pawson v HMRC [2012]
– Upper Tax Tribunal has denied BPR on single Furnished
Holiday Letting
– Must be run with view to profit
– Degree of involvement in management
– Extent of services to holiday makers
– Problem: provision of ancillary services just regarded as part
of investment management
24. Income Tax - relief
G Pratt & Sons v HMRC
– Farm drive re-surfacing – income or capital expense?
– It was a repair to existing drive, not renewal
25. Income Tax - Farm profit averaging claims
Donaghy v HMRC [2012]
– Can’t average a profit against a loss
– Loss must be treated as nil profit
– Mr Donaghy’s accountant claimed Human Rights Act 1998
applied: averaging doesn’t solve profit/loss volatility!
26. Income Tax – anti-avoidance
S10 Finance Act 2012/s127B Income Tax Act 2007
– Individual or partnership
– Makes loss in property business
– That business has a relevant agricultural connection
– No property loss relief against general income for
agricultural expenses arising in connection with “relevant tax
avoidance arrangements”
27. VAT and Self Storage
More self storage reflects diversification
Exemption ended 1 October 2012
Now standard-rated
Need to identify inputs and apply VAT properly
28. General Anti-Abuse Rule
HMRC and “abusive tax avoidance schemes”
Draft Finance Bill 2013
Closing date for comments 6 February 2013
Too little guidance about impact on the “grey” cases
Will affect Inheritance Tax despite warnings
29. Annual Residential Property Tax
Finance Bill 2013 contains draft rules
Annual charge – starts w.e.f 1 April 2013
High-value UK residential properties ie £2m+
Owned by certain non-natural persons
ARPT arises if a company or partnership (or collective
investment scheme) meets the “ownership condition” in relation
to a “single-dwelling interest”
Problems may arise for partnerships with a corporate member
£15,000 charge for a relevant £2m-£5m interest
Lots of details to check; more draft legislation published 31
January
30. Disgruntled beneficiaries
Loose talk costs farms - proprietory estoppel
Suggitt v Suggitt [2012]
– Assurance, reliance and detriment
– When was your Will (and other documents) last reviewed?