Who is correcting their rates, and what it is worth
A business that thinks its rateable valueThe official estimate of a property's annual rental value on a fixed valuation date. Your rates bill is based on this figure, not on what you actually pay in rent. is wrong has two moves, and they happen in order. A Check corrects the facts the Valuation Office holds — floor area, description, how the property is split. Only once a Check is decided can a Challenge argue the valuation itself, using evidence from comparable properties.
Both are public once they alter the rating list, and we collect every one. Note what that means: a case the Valuation Office refuses outright changes nothing, so it never appears in this data. These are the ones that moved somebody’s bill — not a measure of how often cases succeed.
Updated from our weekly VOA ingest England and Wales, 2026 rating list
Checks
Correcting the facts — floor area, description, splits.
- Settled
- 6,733
- RV removed
- £11,550,950
- Floor area corrected
- 106,557 m²
78% of the rateable value Checks removed came from properties being remeasured — 664 of them. Measurement is the single biggest source of a corrected bill.
Latest five
- BST & GND 113, STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD, LONDON N16 8BX−1 m²−£1,250 RV
- 38, STRATTON STREET, LONDON W1J 8LL−£25,000 RV
- 70, NEWCOMEN STREET, LONDON SE1 1YT−344 m²−£115,000 RV
- POPEYES UNIT 3, FLEMING WAY, SWINDON SN1 2NG−17 m²−£9,000 RV
- 166, STREETLY ROAD, BIRMINGHAM B23 7AL−2 m²−£250 RV
Challenges
Arguing the valuation, using comparable evidence.
- Settled
- 136
- RV removed
- £1,062,600
- Reduced the bill
- 97
Far rarer than Checks and far sharper: a Challenge that lands cuts a rateable value by about a fifth. A Challenge can only follow a decided Check, so today’s Check volume is next year’s Challenge volume.
Latest five
- Address not heldNo reduction recorded
- 1-4, PONTELAND ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE5 3AJ−£8,000 RV (−36.0%)
- 13, BULL STREET, BURNLEY BB11 1DW−£250 RV (−2.0%)
- VOSSLOH COGIFER UK LTD (WAREHOUSE), NORMANBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE DN15 8FA−£103,000 RV (−55.7%)
- 10B, WARBOYS AIRFIELD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, HUNTINGDON PE28 2SH−£9,750 RV (−37.9%)