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Shop rates and Zone A by authority

Shops are the only sector the Valuation Office values by zoning, and the Zone A rate it applies to each shopping pitch is published but not readable anywhere in plain English. These pages read it, authority by authority.

“Shops” here is the VOA’s own sub-sector within Retail, covering its 24 SCat codes — 008, 011, 024, 106, 086, 097, 098, 417, 139, 504, 152, 154, 155, 165, 210, 425, 429, 235, 243, 507, 249, 508, 251, 442 — so it takes in amusement arcades, market stalls, showrooms and post offices alongside ordinary retail units. Every code is listed on the SCat categories page.

Choose an authority to see its Zone A rates street by street — which shopping pitch carries which rate, and how wide the band runs on each.

Shop rateable values by billing authority: shops, median rateable value, median Zone A rate and pitches
AuthorityShopsMedian RVMedian Zone APitches
Barnet3,454£19,250£48371
Bath & North East Somerset1,632£13,000£35042
Birmingham11,346£10,750£255204
Blackburn with Darwen1,805£6,200£17540
Bolton2,980£7,900£21556
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole2,434£11,000£24039
Bradford6,073£7,000£190129
Brent3,306£17,250£47049
Brighton & Hove3,114£13,500£38070
Bristol4,448£12,250£30098
Bromley2,792£16,250£37560
Cambridge1,087£23,250£48031
Camden3,735£31,250£82583
Cardiff3,196£11,000£25059
City of London1,068£63,000£1,30523
Cotswold909£14,500£37022
Coventry2,521£11,000£26054
Croydon3,395£13,750£35061
Derby2,246£10,750£25051
Doncaster2,982£7,200£17074
Dudley2,681£7,900£19054
Ealing3,624£16,000£45562
Enfield2,550£16,500£44056
Exeter1,196£13,500£30023
Hackney2,914£19,750£60050
Hammersmith & Fulham2,745£28,250£75035
Haringey2,938£18,500£52547
Harrow2,036£17,750£43542
Hillingdon2,492£15,500£40046
Hull2,840£7,300£14049
Ipswich1,232£9,900£20030
Islington3,012£21,000£60054
Kensington & Chelsea2,960£42,500£1,40059
Lambeth3,085£15,750£45052
Leeds6,994£10,000£250145
Leicester3,806£11,750£35063
Lewisham2,668£12,250£33151
Lincoln1,053£13,250£25222
Liverpool5,651£8,100£185120
Luton1,753£11,500£30029
Manchester5,926£12,750£305109
Milton Keynes1,650£17,500£35532
Newcastle upon Tyne2,779£9,700£22065
Newham3,729£17,250£48042
Newport1,326£7,300£16528
Northampton1,563£11,750£30027
Norwich1,684£12,250£28543
Nottingham2,905£10,750£26063
Oldham2,125£7,400£21045
Oxford1,199£22,500£48030
Plymouth1,975£11,000£27538
Portsmouth2,015£9,700£21029
Redbridge2,670£17,250£43648
Rochdale2,043£7,900£20547
Rotherham2,175£6,200£17539
Salford2,173£8,700£20041
Sheffield5,182£8,800£22593
Southampton1,982£11,250£24037
Southwark3,071£16,750£47558
Stockport2,757£9,900£26062
Stoke-on-Trent2,623£7,100£17553
Sunderland2,453£8,100£18448
Swansea2,334£7,700£16547
Telford & Wrekin1,231£12,000£27029
Tower Hamlets3,361£21,500£57567
Wakefield3,236£6,700£17371
Walsall2,398£8,100£20060
Waltham Forest2,933£15,250£42538
Wandsworth3,041£19,750£54949
Warrington1,532£11,500£25028
Westminster6,194£60,000£1,500150
Wigan2,883£7,600£19565
Wolverhampton2,399£9,200£21563
York1,773£17,750£39038

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