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.
- Net rateable value cut in 2026
- £16,223,950
- Net floor area cut in 2026
- 148,677 m²
85% of the rateable value Checks removed came from properties being remeasured — 1,040 of them. Measurement is the single biggest source of a corrected bill.
Latest fiveRV/Area Change
- UNIT 217.8 AT 8, STONECUTTERS LANE, LONDON SE1 9RZ−4 m²−£6,250 RV
- 171-175, DRAYCOTT AVENUE, LONDON SW3 3AJNo reduction
- GRD FLR PT & 3RD-4TH FLRS 34, BOW STREET, LONDON WC2E 7DL−£50,000 RV
- BST-3RD FLRS 47, WIMPOLE STREET, LONDON W1G 8SE−£10,000 RV
- 3RD FLR FRONT AT 72, WELLS STREET, LONDON W1T 3QF−£4,500 RV
Challenges
Arguing the valuation, using comparable evidence.
- Net rateable value cut in 2026
- £2,069,825
- Reduced the bill in 2026
- 203
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 fiveRV Change
- CHIC DECOR, PENSARN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ABERGELE LL22 7PRNo reduction recorded
- UNIT 7, LEMINGTON ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE15 8BU−£2,500 RV (−8.8%)
- 4, HARROW ROAD, HEREFORD HR4 0EH−£21,500 RV (−28.5%)
- THREE MILE GARAGE, GREAT NORTH ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE3 2DTNo reduction recorded
- 399, TOPSHAM ROAD, EXETER EX2 6HGNo reduction recorded
Tribunals
When a Challenge is refused, the appeal goes to the Valuation Tribunal for England, or for a Welsh property the Valuation Tribunal for Wales.
Every non-domestic decision we hold from both tribunals — England since 2020, Wales since 2018 — with the judgment to read in full, the figures argued, and which grounds won or lost, by council and by property type.
See every tribunal decisionChartered Surveyor League Table
The firms that take business rates appeals to the tribunal, and how often they win.
The firms named on the most tribunal decisions in England and Wales over the last 12 months, ranked by cases, with the share argued at a hearing that won a reduction and the typical cut — rebuilt every month.
See the league table