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We create bespoke business rate strategies to save money for our clients. Business rates can be one of the largest fixed costs a commercial property owner or occupier faces, and getting your rateable value wrong can mean paying far more than you should.
Our Rating team combines decades of experience with an extensive database of comparable evidence, case law and statute to build strong, well-evidenced cases for every type of commercial property. We have an excellent track record in minimising our clients’ liabilities, delivering significant savings.
Reduce Your Business Rates With Expert Support
Business rates can be one of the largest overheads for any organisation and many businesses pay more than they should, often without realising it. We review your business rates and advise on opportunities to appeal the rateable value and look at the potential to achieve reductions.
Our specialist rates team has decades of experience helping companies of all sizes challenge their business rates, secure reductions and recover overpayments. With a proven track record, we take the complexity out of the process and ensure you only pay what is fair.
Why Appeal Your Business Rates?
Many properties have been incorrectly valued or assessed using outdated information. Appealing your business rates could help you:
- Lower ongoing business rate liabilities
- Recover historic overpayments
- Improve cash flow and reduce operational costs
- Ensure your rateable value accurately reflects your property
Even if you’ve checked before, changes to your property, local area, or valuation method could mean you’re now eligible for a reduction.
Our Services
- Free Initial Assessment: we start with a no-obligation review of your current business rates, rateable value, and valuation history to identify potential savings.
- Full Case Preparation: if an appeal is recommended, we gather evidence, prepare all documentation, and build a strong, data-driven case on your behalf.
- Representation & Negotiation: we manage the entire Check, Challenge, Appeal (CCA) process and negotiate directly with the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) to secure the best outcome.
- Property Inspections & Valuation Analysis: our experts conduct detailed property surveys and analyse valuation methodology to highlight inaccuracies or unfair assessments.
- Ongoing Support & Monitoring: we keep you updated on legislative changes, future revaluations, and further opportunities to reduce your liability.
Who We Help
We work with businesses across all sectors, including:
- Retail & hospitality
- Offices & corporate premises
- Manufacturing & industrial units
- Warehousing & logistics
- Healthcare, education, and public sector organisations
Whether you occupy a single property or a national portfolio, our team can support you.
Why Choose Hartnell Taylor Cook?
- We are expert business rates specialists with extensive experience
- Transparent, performance-based fees: you only pay if we achieve a saving
- End-to-end case management with minimal disruption to your business
- Proven results across thousands of successful appeals
- Clear communication and ongoing advice throughout the process
Start Your Business Rates Review Today
Reducing your business rates could be simpler than you think. Please get in touch with our team for a complimentary, no-obligation assessment and find out how much you could save.
Contact:
Martin Davenport, Head of Rating: Martin.Davenport@htcre.co.uk
Chris Grose, Rating Director: Chris.Grose@htcre.co.uk
We work with clients to develop strategies to help mitigate empty rates liabilities.
Our team work with clients to achieve rates relief following vacant possession and advise on strategies to secure relief during refurbishment and redevelopment. In addition, we advise on discretionary relief for the retail, hospitality and leisure sector.
Our Rating team supports public sector organisations directly through two national procurement frameworks, giving central government, local authorities, the NHS, education and blue light organisations a compliant, streamlined route to instruct us without running a full tender process.
Hartnell Taylor Cook are an appointed supplier on the Government Commercial Agency’s (formerly Crown Commercial Service) RM6343 Estate Management Services 2 framework, Lot 6 – Business Rating Services, providing business rates strategy, Check, Challenge and Appeal (CCA) submissions, budgeting and forecasting support, and rates mitigation advice across public sector estates.
We are also an appointed supplier on the ESPO Estates Management Professional Services framework, Lot 1B – Rating Valuation, offering the same specialist rating expertise to local authorities, schools, colleges, universities and housing associations procuring through ESPO.
Whether you’re managing a single site or a large public sector estate, our team can be engaged quickly and compliantly through either framework.
