
1 
This Order, which extends to England only, may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1999, and shall come into force on 22nd December 1999.
2 
There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 42A (rural settlement lists) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 the parishes and other areas named or described in the second column of the Schedule in the counties named in the first column.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
24th November 1999
SCHEDULE
Article 2


County Parish or other area
Cambridgeshire Littleport
Cumbria Seaton, Wigton
Norfolk So much of the unparished area of the borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk as lies west of the River Ouse
West Yorkshire Meltham
 The area of the former urban district of Colne Valley
 The areas known as Castle Hill and Hall Bower, that is to say so much of Kirklees as lies—
(i) north of the parish of Kirkburton,
(ii) east of grid line SE14, and
(iii) south of grid line SE15.
 The areas known as Crosland Hill and South Crosland, that is to say so much of Kirklees as lies west of grid line SE12 and south of grid line SE15
 The areas known as East Bierly and Drub, that is to say so much of Kirklees as lies—
(i) north of a line drawn from east to west at mid point between grid lines SE26 and 27,
(ii) east of a line drawn at mid point between grid lines SE17 and 18, and
(iii) west of the A651 trunk road.
 The area known as Hartshead, that is to say so much of the unparished area of Kirklees as lies—
(i) south both of grid line SE24 and the A649 trunk road,
(ii) west of grid line SE20, and
(iii) north of the A62 trunk road.
 The areas known as Upper Hopton, Biestfield and Whitley, that is to say so much of Kirklees as lies—
(i) south of the Huddersfield to Wakefield railway,
(ii) north of the parish of Kirkburton, and
(iii) west of grid line SE24.
Worcestershire Barnt Green, Bourneheath, Catshill and Lickey
In this Schedule—
(a) “Kirklees” means the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, and
(b) references to grid lines are to lines on the Ordnance Survey National Grid.