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240131: VOA Agent Standards for Business Rates and Council Tax

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The Valuation Office Agency has launched new standards to encourage good practice from agents when representing customers on business rates and Council Tax. The VOA Agent Standards set out how agents must act in: their behaviourtheir professional practice They also set out the level of service agents should provide to their customers, such as providing clear communications and responding in a timely manner....

#61 – A detailed look at the emerging agricultural transition schemes

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Following the Defra secretary’s headline speech at the Oxford Farming Conference in early January – after which an update to the agricultural transition plan was published – Richard Sanders takes a timely look at the latest information on these schemes. Agricultural Transition Plan update January 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Technical annex: The combined environmental land management offer - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) New and improved actions for upland farmers - Farming (blog.gov.uk)...

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240127: England - Updated Guidance to Possession Process for Residential Lets

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Updated guidance 'Understanding the possession action process' has been published for private residential landlords in England, with the associated guidance for tenants similarly updated. Changes to the guidance clarify that form 6A (or a document setting out the same information as required on that form), must be provided to serve a Section 21 notice. There is also inclusion of a new link in the private landlord guidance to provide further information about the Housing Loss Prevention Advice...

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240127: Update Webinars Available for National Underground Asset Register

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The Geospatial Commission is continuing its work on rolling out a digital map, generally known as the 'National Underground Asset Register' (NUAR), showing underground cables and pipes. Ultimately providing information on buried services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and intended to reduce accidental asset strikes. The platform is to be fully operational by the end of 2025 but is currently restricted to asset owners, such as utility companies, transport and local authorities. A...

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Jeremy's Blog 26th January 2024: Agricultural Protection is for Agricultural Use

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This article by Jeremy Moody first appeared in the CAAV e-Briefing of 25th January 2024 It can be worth remembering in today’s rapidly changing circumstances and new environmental offers that, where law or taxation make special provisions for farming, their benefit can be limited to where farming is being done. They are not entitlements, but conditional. Where agricultural activity ceases, the benefit of those special provisions can be lost. The provisions are to assist those who are farmers,...

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BNG - CAAV Collected Guidance - Version 1

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From 12th February 2024, Biodiversity Net Gain becomes a condition of planning consent for major development in England. It will then be a requirement for small sites – as defined in the regulations – from April 2024 and for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) from November 2025. Ahead of the policy becoming a planning requirement, the CAAV has briefed members on the development of BNG over the past few years with a range of notes, resources and briefing documents...

Improving Farm Productivity Grant: Round 2 Opens

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Applications have now opened for the 2nd round of the Improving Farm Productivity Grant. For more detail on the grant, see our website note of 14th December. Since the initial publication of the scheme guidance, DEFRA has increased the proportion of the costs that the grant will cover from 40% to 50% for robotic and automated equipment....

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CAAV Note 240123: NI - NAP Derogation Applications

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DAERA has opened the online system for submitting applications for a Nutrient Action Programme (NAP) derogation in 2024, and for the submission of 2023 fertilisation accounts for derogated farms. This note has more detail.

Energy DCOs - Sizewell C and Drax

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Two major energy projects have reached milestones in their consenting. Sizewell C has announced that it has satisfied the commitments made in its Deed of Obligation. These were preliminary tasks required under the Development Consent Order (DCO) and preconditions for the start of the formal construction phase. The start of construction is not conditional on the final investment decision (FID) which is expected to be taken later in 2024. The Drax Bioenergy carbon capture and storage project was...

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240119: HS2 Safeguarding Lifted for Phase 2a

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The Government have announced the formal lifting of safeguarding directions for the Phase 2a route between the West Midlands and Crewe. Safeguarding will remain in place for land close to Handsacre, as this is still required to connect HS2 Phase 1 to the West Coast Main Line.

Jeremy's Blog 19th January 2024: Private Capital for Environmental Work

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This article by Jeremy Moody first appeared in the CAAV e-Briefing of 18th January 2024 The encouragement of private capital with and alongside public money has been a recurrent theme in government statements on environmental policy. DEFRA has set out very round figures as targets for this, calling for £500 million of private investment in “nature recovery” by 2027 and £1 billion by 2030 (perhaps 40 per cent of England’s legacy CAP money but not all necessarily agricultural or even...

BNG Start Dates: 12th February 2024

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DEFRA has confirmed the start dates for biodiversity net gain in England:From 12 February 2024, BNG will be mandatory for new planning applications for major development made under the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) 1990, subject to the confirmed exemptions.BNG for small sites will have an extended transition period and will apply from 2 April 2024....

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DEFRA Webinars: The Farming Offer in 2024

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Following the start-of-the-year announcement by the DEFRA Secretary on schemes and coming farming policy, DEFRA is hosting several webinars to brief advisers and farmers. The Farming and Countryside Programme (FCP) will be holding an adviser specific webinar on Monday 22nd January: Advisor Webinar - the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI24) Tickets, Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 15:00 | Eventbrite. DEFRA are hosting a webinar on 26th January. Janet Hughes and others from the RPA will be providing an...

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CAAV Note 240113: Material Information for Property Marketing - New Guidance

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The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team has now issued enlarged guidance as to what is “material information” for property sales and lettings in the context of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, essentially focussed on residential sales and leases and applying across the United Kingdom. The note below provides further information.

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