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Welcome to www.ratesadvice.com the home web page of Sanderson Weatherall's dedicated Business Rating department. You have reached the best on-line resource for obtaining professionally qualified rates advice on your business rates liabilities.
 
Sanderson Weatherall rating specialists are RICS and IRRV qualified surveyors that can offer a comprehensive range of rating services to clients including Rating appeals, rating valuations, rates management and rates audit . Regarded as experts in the field, our senior staff are all members of the Rating Surveyor's Association and are therefore able to offer the very best ratesadvice on the accuracy of Rating assessments.
 
The Valuation Office Agency is currently preparing the 2010 RATING REVALUATION, which takes effect on 1st April 2010. New draft rateable values and summary valuations were released on 1st October. Sanderson Weatherall is gearing up to advise clients old and new on the implications.
 
For full information, click on 2010 Rating Revaluation
 
2005 RATING LIST APPEALS: Rating appeals can still be submitted against the 2005 Rating List. Please contact us for urgent rates advice, as a well considered appeal could make large savings in your annual business rates outgoings.  
 
The team offers professional and comprehensive advice on the following:
 
 
Please visit Our Services to view our full range of expertise.
 
NEWS:
 
>>Sanderson Weatherall has just been instructed to advise Lookers plc on the 2010 Rating Revaluation.
 
>> We have recently been appointed to advise on tjhe Rating assessments of various London Theatres for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group.
 
>> Sanderson Weatherall is delighted to announce that Matthew Midwinter BSc (Hons) MRICS has joined the London Rating department to help promote business for the 2010 Rating Revaluation. Matthew will be working closely with the existing team of Tom Dixon and Chris Grose.
 
>>  The Government have responded to the Empty Property Rate Relief Consultation.  For more information please click here.
 
>> The new Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007 received Royal Assent on 19th July 2007 – click here for a copy of the act. The detailed provisions will follow in statutory instruments, after the consultation period ends in October.
 
>> Following a very speedy passage through parliament, the Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007 brought in new regulations for empty property relief. The government released a consultation paper, which provoked considerable comment. Click here to see pdf.
 
>> In his 2007 Budget speech, Gordon Brown announced significant changes to empty property rate relief - a move that has had a profound effect on landlords, occupiers, developers & investors across the country. Click here for an information sheet.
 
>> Significant new High Court decision in the West Country gives billing authorities the power to charge administrators occupied rates and empty rates, effectively overturning previous case law precendents. Click here to see PDF
 
>> Sanderson Weatherall has been appointed to carry out  rates audits on behalf of ANC Ltd, York University and H&L Garages.
 
>> Sanderson Weatherall has been appointed to advise Calderdale Metropolitan District Council on all its rating assessments. This follows our appointment last year by Kirklees MBC, for whom large savings have already been made.
 
Click here to contact the Rating team or email ratesadvice@sandersonweatherall.com
 
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