- is the Rateable Value fair?

Roderick Bisset has recently reviewed several pubs in the South East who have contacted us through our dedicated rating website www.businessrates.com and there is a very similar thread connecting them.

If you occupy a pub where the Rateable Value has already been reduced via appeal, this will be effective from 1 April 2005.

However, since the 1st of April 2005 you, the Publican, must now ask yourself “have there been other contributing factors (physically affecting your business) that have reduced my trade?” It’s called a material change in circumstance (MCC).

An example may be the opening of a ‘super discounting’ pub by Weatherspoons in the High Street? Alternatively, has Whitbread plc opened a Brewers Fayre in one of their Premier Inns near your premises? There are many forms of material change that can arise and where such a change does occur, you need to contact our licensed valuers.

Contact Roderick Bisset at our Crawley office bisset@bmh.co.uk for further advice.