What types of work do CAAV members usually advise upon?
CAAV members provide clients with professional advice and valuation expertise on a wide range of issues affecting the countryside.
They must have a wide knowledge of country life, understand the relevant law, keep abreast of government regulations and have a strong sense of practicality in times when there are many new or increasing pressures on and opportunities in the countryside, at all times dealing professionally on behalf of clients.
Types of work often include:
- Agency and management – sale, purchase, valuation, mortgage and letting of farms, estates, houses, commercial premises and land
- Valuations and taxation – advice and valuation for rural taxation and finance: VAT, CGT, Income and Corporation Tax and Inheritance Tax
- Scheme applications and advice – Single Payment Scheme, Less Favoured Area support, Agri-environment schemes including Environmental Stewardship and Tir Gofal, other Rural Development Programme schemes, Woodland schemes, SSSIs, Waste Managements and NVZs
- Agriculture – stocktaking valuations, livestock, machinery and equipment auctions, milk quotas, contract farming arrangements, grazing licences
- Landlord and tenant matters – agricultural tenancies (under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 (FBTs)), commercial and residential lettings
- Compulsory purchase and other compensation claims – including water and gas pipelines, road schemes, electricity wayleaves
- Rural planning and development – advice, applications and appeals
- Rural diversification – advice, grant applications, planning issues
- Renewable energy – wind, biofuels, biomass, water
- Telecommunications masts – sites, advice on agreements
- Arbitration and dispute resolution – dispute settlements, mediation, independent expert, evidence preparation and hearings.