Your rateable value already qualifies for full Small Business Rate Relief, so your bill is £0 regardless of whether the valuation itself is on the high side. This assumes it's your only business property; relief is granted by your local council, not automatically.
Your estimated bill is already £0 under Small Business Rate Relief, so there is no saving to claim and no challenge to make. This assumes it's your only business property — relief is granted by your local council, so check your bill if you're not sure. Keep this report for your records, and re-check if your circumstances change, for example if you take on another business property.
The Energy Performance Certificate on file comes in a little below the Valuation Office's floor area — within normal tolerance, but still worth a quick check that the recorded area is right. See the EPC floor area check below.
The one thing we can't see is your actual measured size. Rateable value is built from floor areas measured to a standard code — and overstated areas are the single most common error we find. Pace out your unit (or check the VOA's published measurements against reality). If the area they hold is bigger than your real floor space, that alone can cut your rateable value, whatever the rate says.
For shops, the frontage zone (Zone A) carries the most value and it halves back as you go deeper. If the VOA has drawn your zones wrongly — treated storage or a return as prime frontage, or mismeasured the depth — your rateable value can be too high even when the headline rate looks standard.
With a rateable value of £11,750, you likely qualify for Small Business Rate Relief — up to 100% off your bill if this is your only business property (under £12,000), tapering to nothing at £15,000. Relief isn't always applied automatically — check your bill and ask your council if it's missing. This is a discount on the bill, separate from whether your rateable value is right.
If something physical has changed around you — long-running roadworks, scaffolding, a nearby demolition or redevelopment, a shopping centre losing an anchor — that can be grounds for a temporary reduction called a Material Change of Circumstances, even if your rate is otherwise fair. It has to be a physical/locality change, not just a downturn in trade. If that's you, a surveyor can advise whether it's worth a case.
Check the property description the VOA holds (the 'SCat' — what they think your property is). If it's wrong — a café recorded as a shop, an office recorded as storage — it may have been valued on the wrong basis. Getting the description right can change the whole valuation.
Your Zone A rate of £320/m² is the rate the Valuation Office applies right across the valuation scheme you sit in — 24 other shops on that same scheme carry exactly the same rate. Shops elsewhere nearby may be assessed lower, but the Valuation Office prices each scheme on its own trading position, so that is a difference between locations, not an error in your assessment. Challenging it would mean arguing the whole scheme's rate is wrong, which affects every shop on it and is a specialist surveyor's argument, not a comparables one. So: no grounds on the rate, and no fee. The floor-area and relief checks below don't depend on the rate and are where cases like yours are more often won.
These are the shops the Valuation Office values on the same scheme as you. That is the comparison that matters: the Valuation Office sets one shop-front rate per scheme, so that rate is what yours has to be consistent with. A scheme isn't always one street — some of these sit up to about 3 km away, so the distance is shown against each one.
Comparable properties on your valuation scheme, ranked by their shop-front value (£ per m²). A high £/m² value is what pushes your rateable value — and so your bill — up. Yours is highlighted in amber.
Every shop on your valuation scheme is shown — we haven't filtered any out by size or shop type, because a rate per square metre doesn't depend on how big you are or what you sell. 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: £5,076 before relief · likely £0 after Small Business Rate Relief.
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 propertyW7 1AG | Shop And PremisesW7 3JE · 1.4 km | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 2JD · 2.3 km | Shop And PremisesW7 3JE · 1.4 km | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 3JE · 1.4 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business name | Tote Bookmakers Ltd | Tekton Dpw Ltd | Sj Dry Cleaning Services Limited | Homeland Group Ltd | Hanwell Cafevia FSA — may be inaccurate | Midhurst (Hanwell) Ltd | Not published | Bordars Superstore Limited | Public Relations Uk Ltd |
| Address | 9, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 12, STATION ROAD, LONDON W7 3JE | 1, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 5, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 7, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 92, ELTHORNE PARK ROAD, LONDON W7 2JD | 14A, STATION ROAD, LONDON W7 3JE | 3, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 20, STATION ROAD, LONDON W7 3JE |
| Retail Zone A | £7,619 23.8 m² · £320 | £4,371 14.3 m² · £305 | £11,098 34.7 m² · £320 | £7,824 24.5 m² · £320 | £7,878 24.6 m² · £320 | £6,496 20.3 m² · £320 | £4,697 15.4 m² · £305 | £7,990 25 m² · £320 | £4,423 14.5 m² · £305 |
| Retail Zone B | £3,442 21.5 m² · £160 | £1,766 11.6 m² · £153 | £2,827 17.7 m² · £160 | £3,109 19.4 m² · £160 | £2,771 17.3 m² · £160 | £1,744 10.9 m² · £160 | £1,327 8.7 m² · £153 | £3,608 22.6 m² · £160 | £3,068 20.1 m² · £152 |
| Remaining Retail Zone | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £3,005 39.4 m² · £76 |
| Public Toilets | £250 7.8 m² · £32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kitchen | £221 5.5 m² · £40 | £54 1.4 m² · £38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| External Storage | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £283 17.7 m² · £16 | £658 43.1 m² · £15 |
| Canopy | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £280 43.8 m² · £6 | — |
| Office | — | £9,639 31.6 m² · £305 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Staff Toilets | — | £0 0 m² · £0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rateable value | £11,750 | £15,750 | £13,750 | £10,750 | £10,500 | £8,200 | £6,000 | £12,000 | £11,000 |
| Floor area | 58.6 m² | 58.9 m² | 52.4 m² | 43.9 m² | 41.9 m² | 31.2 m² | 24.1 m² | 109 m² | 117.2 m² |
| Zone A value (£/m²) | £320 /m² | £305 /m² | £320 /m² | £320 /m² | £320 /m² | £320 /m² | £305 /m² | £320 /m² | £305 /m² |
| Last known bill / yr | £5,364 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £3,391 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £624 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £0 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | Not published | £3,693 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | Not published | £0 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £0 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above |
| Occupied | Y | Y | Y | Y | Not published | Y | Not published | Y | Y |
| Distance | — | 1.4 km | same postcode | same postcode | same postcode | 2.3 km | 1.4 km | same postcode | 1.4 km |
| 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. | — | 99% | 89% | 75% | 72% | 53% | 41% | 14% | — |
| 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.
Scheme Zone A value ≈ £320/m². Your unit is assessed at £320/m².
We also looked at other schemes nearby
Shown for completeness, not used in the comparison above. The Valuation Office prices each parade on its own trading position, so a neighbouring street being cheaper is not evidence that your rate is wrong — arguing that would mean arguing your whole parade's rate is wrong, which affects every shop on it and is a specialist job.
Some of these properties may also qualify for Small Business Rate Relief, but that depends on each occupier's circumstances (mainly whether it's their only property), which isn't shown in public rating data. We compare bills before relief to keep the comparison fair.
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.
Part of your rateable value sits outside the floor space — the Valuation Office prices things like car parking, plant and land separately. Our comparison uses the floor-space value only, because that is the part measured in £ per m² and the only part that can be compared with other properties.
| Zone / use | Area | Value £/m² | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail Zone A | 23.8 m² | £320 | £7,619 |
| Retail Zone B | 21.5 m² | £160 | £3,442 |
| Public Toilets | 7.8 m² | £32 | £250 |
| Kitchen | 5.5 m² | £40 | £221 |
| Floor space | 58.6 m² | blended £200 | £11,532 |
| Air Conditioning System | 45.3 m² | £7 | £317 |
| Rounding by the Valuation Office | — | — | −£99 |
| Rateable value | £11,750 |
Last published charge (2025/26): £5,364/yr, per your council's FOI data. That bill was set under the previous rating list, before the April 2026 revaluation changed rateable values and multipliers — so it is not your current bill, and we don't compare it against this year's figures above.
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, and differences up to around 20% are routine. 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.
How this property's rateable value has moved across the last three rating lists, and whether the entry has been altered mid-list following a proposal or appeal.
| 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) | £11,750 | In force |
| 2023 list | — | Previous |
| 2017 list | — | Previous |
Appeal / settlement: not yet checked for this property.
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.
No bar shown for 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26 — the rateable value for that rating list isn't held for this property yet, so we've left those years out rather than estimate them.
Every week we read the Valuation Office's own change files and record what moved. This is that record for this property — checked against VOA data published 5 Aug 2026.
Nothing has changed. The Valuation Office has not altered this entry since the 2026 rating list came into force, which is true of the large majority of properties — a rateable value normally only moves at a revaluation, or after someone asks for it to be looked at. We keep checking every week, and anything that does change will appear here.
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 propertyW7 1AG | Shop And PremisesW7 3JE · 1.4 km | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 2JD · 2.3 km | Shop And PremisesW7 3JE · 1.4 km | Shop And PremisesW7 1AG · same postcode | Shop And PremisesW7 3JE · 1.4 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business name | Tote Bookmakers Ltd | Tekton Dpw Ltd | Sj Dry Cleaning Services Limited | Homeland Group Ltd | Hanwell Cafevia FSA — may be inaccurate | Midhurst (Hanwell) Ltd | Not published | Bordars Superstore Limited | Public Relations Uk Ltd |
| Address | 9, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 12, STATION ROAD, LONDON W7 3JE | 1, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 5, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 7, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 92, ELTHORNE PARK ROAD, LONDON W7 2JD | 14A, STATION ROAD, LONDON W7 3JE | 3, BORDARS ROAD, LONDON W7 1AG | 20, STATION ROAD, LONDON W7 3JE |
| Retail Zone A | £7,619 23.8 m² · £320 | £4,371 14.3 m² · £305 | £11,098 34.7 m² · £320 | £7,824 24.5 m² · £320 | £7,878 24.6 m² · £320 | £6,496 20.3 m² · £320 | £4,697 15.4 m² · £305 | £7,990 25 m² · £320 | £4,423 14.5 m² · £305 |
| Retail Zone B | £3,442 21.5 m² · £160 | £1,766 11.6 m² · £153 | £2,827 17.7 m² · £160 | £3,109 19.4 m² · £160 | £2,771 17.3 m² · £160 | £1,744 10.9 m² · £160 | £1,327 8.7 m² · £153 | £3,608 22.6 m² · £160 | £3,068 20.1 m² · £152 |
| Remaining Retail Zone | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £3,005 39.4 m² · £76 |
| Public Toilets | £250 7.8 m² · £32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kitchen | £221 5.5 m² · £40 | £54 1.4 m² · £38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| External Storage | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £283 17.7 m² · £16 | £658 43.1 m² · £15 |
| Canopy | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | £280 43.8 m² · £6 | — |
| Office | — | £9,639 31.6 m² · £305 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Staff Toilets | — | £0 0 m² · £0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rateable value | £11,750 | £15,750 | £13,750 | £10,750 | £10,500 | £8,200 | £6,000 | £12,000 | £11,000 |
| Floor area | 58.6 m² | 58.9 m² | 52.4 m² | 43.9 m² | 41.9 m² | 31.2 m² | 24.1 m² | 109 m² | 117.2 m² |
| Zone A value (£/m²) | £320 /m² | £305 /m² | £320 /m² | £320 /m² | £320 /m² | £320 /m² | £305 /m² | £320 /m² | £305 /m² |
| Last known bill / yr | £5,364 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £3,391 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £624 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £0 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | Not published | £3,693 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | Not published | £0 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above | £0 /yr · actual after that occupier's own reliefs — not like-for-like with the rows above |
| Occupied | Y | Y | Y | Y | Not published | Y | Not published | Y | Y |
| Distance | — | 1.4 km | same postcode | same postcode | same postcode | 2.3 km | 1.4 km | same postcode | 1.4 km |
| 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. | — | 99% | 89% | 75% | 72% | 53% | 41% | 14% | — |
| 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.