Rateable Value is £21,746 higher than the median of similar shops in your area. This is an estimate, not a formal valuation.
Your rate of £79/m² is about 66% above the £48/m² median of genuinely comparable properties nearby (same use class, similar size). That gap points to an over-assessed rateable value, and aligning to the evidence suggests a rateable value near £32,254 — roughly £11,986/yr off your bill. Worth pursuing. One honest caution: a formal Challenge can occasionally see a rateable value rise as well as fall, so go in on the evidence, not a hunch.
Whatever the rate comparison shows, your Energy Performance Certificate records a smaller floor area than the Valuation Office has charged you on. Certificates are measured to the outside walls, so they normally read larger than the rating list, not smaller. Worth checking your own measurements against both — correcting an overstated floor area is a Check, which is free, needs no surveyor, and cannot be used to increase your rateable value.
Your rateable value is just over £51,000, so you're on the standard multiplier (48p) rather than the small-business one (43.2p). If the true value is actually a touch under £51,000 — and the floor-area or zoning checks support that — the saving is bigger than the rateable-value change alone, because you'd also drop to the lower multiplier.
Comparable properties close by, ranked by their value (£ per m²). A high £/m² value is what pushes your rateable value — and so your bill — up. Yours is highlighted in amber. This is a broad-brush screening check on the overall £/m² value — not a floor-by-floor valuation, since retail-style zoning (Zone A/B/C) doesn't apply to this property's use class.
All comparable properties within ~0.5 mi are shown. Addresses are kept private by the Valuation OfficeThe government body that sets every property's Rateable Value. From April 2026 the VOA is part of HMRC (see below), but 'VOA' is still the common name for the valuation side of the work., so they appear by postcode and distance. Figures are estimated annual bills before any business-specific reliefs, so every property is compared on the same basis.
Your property is pinned on the left; the closest matches are shown here in full (the chart above ranks every comparable). Scroll sideways for more.
| Line item | Your propertyBD4 9SN | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SW · 170 m | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SW · 170 m | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SW · 170 m | Workshop And PremisesBD4 9PD · 320 m | Workshop And PremisesBD4 9PQ · 240 m | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SN · same postcode | Factory And PremisesBD4 9PG · 270 m | Workshop And PremisesBD4 9AW · 290 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business name | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Address | GND FLOOR FUSION HOUSE, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SN | UNIT 35 BIZSPACE BUSINESS CENTRE, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SW | UNIT 30B, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SW | UNITS A2 - A5, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SW | GND FLR UNIT 1 R/O TERRYS MILL, SCHOOL STREET, BRADFORD BD4 9PD | UNIT 4, LISTER STREET, BRADFORD BD4 9PQ | UNIT 1, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SN | DARUL ULOOM DAWATUL IMAAN JUBILEE MILL, DUDLEY STREET, BRADFORD BD4 9PG | UNIT 6/7, CUTLER HEIGHTS LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9AW |
| Warehouse | £38,786 516.6 m² · £75 | £29,038 661.8 m² · £44 | — | £45,559 718.3 m² · £63 | — | — | £21,812 424.6 m² · £51 | £1,246 33.7 m² · £37 | — |
| Office | £15,431 167 m² · £92 | — | — | £3,652 48 m² · £76 | — | £5,366 91 m² · £59 | £4,642 75.3 m² · £62 | — | £15,424 213.4 m² · £72 |
| Works Office | — | — | — | — | — | — | £1,320 25.7 m² · £51 | — | — |
| Store | — | — | £31,896 726.9 m² · £44 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Area Under Supported Floor | — | — | — | £103 2.3 m² · £44 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Workshop | — | — | — | — | — | £15,898 296.4 m² · £54 | — | — | £17,434 283.8 m² · £61 |
| Internal Storage | — | — | — | — | £3,120 91.4 m² · £34 | £4,058 75.7 m² · £54 | — | — | — |
| Production Area | — | — | — | — | £16,895 482.7 m² · £35 | £3,198 91.7 m² · £35 | — | £22,593 814.6 m² · £28 | — |
| Rateable value | £54,000 | £29,000 | £32,500 | £49,250 | £20,500 | £28,500 | £27,750 | £23,750 | £32,750 |
| Floor area | 683.6 m² | 661.8 m² | 726.9 m² | 768.6 m² | 574.1 m² | 554.8 m² | 525.6 m² | 848.3 m² | 497.2 m² |
| Last known bill / yr | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Occupied | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Distance | — | 170 m | 170 m | 170 m | 320 m | 240 m | same postcode | 270 m | 290 m |
| MatchHow closely a comparable property matches yours, based on property type, size and distance. A higher percentage means stronger evidence for a challenge — but even a 100% match is only ever supporting evidence, not a guarantee. | — | 97% | 94% | 88% | 84% | 81% | 77% | 76% | 73% |
| Reliefs | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Last known bill is the figure a council's own records show it charges (from Freedom of Information data) — shown only where we have it, like the Business name and Reliefs rows above. Where a council's response predates the April 2026 revaluation, this is its 2025/26 bill under the previous rating list. "Not published" means that council's FOI data doesn't cover this property, not that the bill is nil.
The lowest value in each row is highlighted green; your property is in amber. All figures are estimates until agreed with the Valuation Office.
Median comparable value ≈ £48/m². Your unit is assessed at £79/m² — about 66% higher.
Retail is valued zone by zone — the frontage (Zone AIn shops, the first 6.1 metres of depth from the shop front — the most valuable trading space, and the benchmark rate (£ per m²) used to value the whole unit.) carries the full value, halving back through B and C. We compare on the Zone A value (£/m²), not the blended average.
| Zone / use | Area | Value £/m² | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehouse | 516.6 m² | £75 | £38,786 |
| Office | 167 m² | £92 | £15,431 |
| Rateable value | 683.6 m² | blended £79 | £54,000 |
What's not included above: reliefs not yet loaded for your council — charitable, empty-property, rural, hardship or transitional — could lower this further. They depend on your business and circumstances, not just the property, so check your council bill for your final figure.
We compared the floor area on this property's Energy Performance Certificate against the Valuation Office's measured area. They're measured slightly differently, so we only flag a gap when it's big enough to matter.
An EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) records the building's total useful floor area, generally measured to the outside face of the external walls and including internal circulation such as stairwells and corridors. The Valuation Office measures the usable space to the inside of the walls, and for shops it further "zones" the space — the frontage counts fully, then halves back into the store. Because of this, the EPC figure is usually a little larger — so an EPC reading up to 20% over the Valuation Office's area is routine. A certificate coming in under the rating list is the more interesting direction, because the measuring difference should push it the other way: we treat a shortfall of more than 10% as worth checking. We hide this check entirely when the gap is so large that the certificate is almost certainly for a different footprint — for example one EPC covering a whole building rather than your single unit.
| Rating listThe public register listing every business property's Rateable Value. The current list is the '2026 list', based on rental values from 1 April 2024. | Rateable value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 list (current) | £54,000 | In force |
| 2023 list | £54,000 | Previous |
| 2017 list | £34,750 | Previous |
No alterations on record. The Valuation Office has not changed this entry since the 2026 list came into force, which is true of most properties. We read its change files every week.
checked to 23 Sep 2026
How your rateable value has moved across the last two revaluations. RV only changes when a new rating list takes effect — 2017, 2023 and 2026 — not year to year, so the bars step rather than drift.
This is an estimate, not a guaranteed saving. Business Rate Checker compares your property against similar ones in the official rating list to flag where your rateable value looks high. The figures shown — including any suggested rateable value, annual saving or backdated refund — are indicative and depend on the evidence the Valuation Office Agency (VOA, now part of HMRC) accepts. The actual outcome could be higher, lower, or nil, and in rare cases a review can leave a value unchanged or increased. Nothing here is a valuation, financial or legal advice; it's information to help you decide whether to look into your bill further.
You've got the full picture on your rateable value — the next step is making your claim. See how to challenge it yourself for free, or with a chartered surveyor.
Evidence: HMRC/VOA 2026 rating list. Comparables matched on use class and locality. Figures are estimates until agreed by the VOA — outcomes aren't guaranteed and can go down as well as up. A formal Check/Challenge is a separate step we don't perform here. Business Rate Checker is independent and is not endorsed by the VOA/HMRC.
Every zone, area & £/m² value for the closest comparables, side by side. Your property is pinned on the left.
| Line item | Your propertyBD4 9SN | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SW · 170 m | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SW · 170 m | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SW · 170 m | Workshop And PremisesBD4 9PD · 320 m | Workshop And PremisesBD4 9PQ · 240 m | Warehouse And PremisesBD4 9SN · same postcode | Factory And PremisesBD4 9PG · 270 m | Workshop And PremisesBD4 9AW · 290 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business name | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Address | GND FLOOR FUSION HOUSE, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SN | UNIT 35 BIZSPACE BUSINESS CENTRE, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SW | UNIT 30B, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SW | UNITS A2 - A5, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SW | GND FLR UNIT 1 R/O TERRYS MILL, SCHOOL STREET, BRADFORD BD4 9PD | UNIT 4, LISTER STREET, BRADFORD BD4 9PQ | UNIT 1, KNOWLES LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9SN | DARUL ULOOM DAWATUL IMAAN JUBILEE MILL, DUDLEY STREET, BRADFORD BD4 9PG | UNIT 6/7, CUTLER HEIGHTS LANE, BRADFORD BD4 9AW |
| Warehouse | £38,786 516.6 m² · £75 | £29,038 661.8 m² · £44 | — | £45,559 718.3 m² · £63 | — | — | £21,812 424.6 m² · £51 | £1,246 33.7 m² · £37 | — |
| Office | £15,431 167 m² · £92 | — | — | £3,652 48 m² · £76 | — | £5,366 91 m² · £59 | £4,642 75.3 m² · £62 | — | £15,424 213.4 m² · £72 |
| Works Office | — | — | — | — | — | — | £1,320 25.7 m² · £51 | — | — |
| Store | — | — | £31,896 726.9 m² · £44 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Area Under Supported Floor | — | — | — | £103 2.3 m² · £44 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Workshop | — | — | — | — | — | £15,898 296.4 m² · £54 | — | — | £17,434 283.8 m² · £61 |
| Internal Storage | — | — | — | — | £3,120 91.4 m² · £34 | £4,058 75.7 m² · £54 | — | — | — |
| Production Area | — | — | — | — | £16,895 482.7 m² · £35 | £3,198 91.7 m² · £35 | — | £22,593 814.6 m² · £28 | — |
| Rateable value | £54,000 | £29,000 | £32,500 | £49,250 | £20,500 | £28,500 | £27,750 | £23,750 | £32,750 |
| Floor area | 683.6 m² | 661.8 m² | 726.9 m² | 768.6 m² | 574.1 m² | 554.8 m² | 525.6 m² | 848.3 m² | 497.2 m² |
| Last known bill / yr | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Occupied | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Distance | — | 170 m | 170 m | 170 m | 320 m | 240 m | same postcode | 270 m | 290 m |
| MatchHow closely a comparable property matches yours, based on property type, size and distance. A higher percentage means stronger evidence for a challenge — but even a 100% match is only ever supporting evidence, not a guarantee. | — | 97% | 94% | 88% | 84% | 81% | 77% | 76% | 73% |
| Reliefs | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Last known bill is the figure a council's own records show it charges (Freedom of Information data), shown only where published — responses that predate the April 2026 revaluation are 2025/26 bills. The lowest value in each row is highlighted green; your property is in amber. All figures are estimates until agreed with the Valuation Office.