The Council has discretion to grant rate relief
to organisations that are not established or conducted for profit.
To be eligible for consideration, the property must be used for
charitable, philanthropic or religious purposes, or concerned with
education, social welfare, science, literature or the fine arts, or
used wholly or mainly for recreation by a not-for-profit club or
society.
The Council has guidelines for making decisions
on applications for discretionary relief. To make an application
for mandatory or mandatory and discretionary relief please
complete the
charitable and
discretionary rate relief application form, the form also
gives further details of the scheme and the Council's guidelines
for discretionary relief.
Under this scheme relief is awarded for a period
of five years and a new application must be made at the end of the
period.
