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New Tax Hits Businesses and Affordable Housing in Rural Areas, Says CLA The rural economy, its communities and environment will be disproportionately hit by the introduction of a new tax being proposed by the Treasury via the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), says the Country Land and Business Association (CLA). "The provision of affordable rural housing, small scale diversification projects and those wanting to change the use of agricultural land could be seriously hindered by the introduction of the Planning Gain Supplement (PGS). The CLA is fundamentally opposed to this proposed tax," said Fenella Collins, senior planning adviser at the CLA.
"Under current proposals, those wanting to convert barns to new uses which are to be let or to change the use of land from an agricultural field to equine use, would be expected to pay a tax. Those hardest hit would be small scale developments such as those converting farm buildings for small diversification projects.
"The best security for rural areas is a successful and sustainable rural economy allied with a flexible and integrated planning system with policies that all pull in the same direction. Whilst one planning statement* from DCLG encourages an increase in rural diversification and affordable rural housing, proposed policy from the Treasury will hinder it. We cannot afford to have two opposing messages coming from Government. PGS is a costly and complex tax that will hinder rural enterprise and development," concluded Fenella Collins. |
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