• Skip to content
  • Skip to navigation
Logo: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Your Account
  • Menu
Close menu
Close
  • About the Council
  • Business and Economy
  • Children and Families
  • Community and Living
  • Council Tax and Benefits
  • Education and Learning
  • Environment and Waste
  • Health and Social Care
  • Housing
  • Jobs and Careers
  • Leisure and Culture
  • Planning and Development
  • Transport and Streets
  • See all news
  • See all events
  1. Home
  2. Business and economy
  3. Business rates
  4. How to reduce your Business Rates bill

How to reduce your Business Rates bill

In this section

  1. You are here: Rural rate relief
  2. Mandatory and discretionary rate relief
  3. Small business rates relief
  4. Hardship relief
  5. Rate relief on empty properties
  6. Relief for Local Newspapers
  7. Support for Small Businesses
  8. Retail Discount
  9. Public toilets
  10. Heat networks relief
  11. Improvement relief
  12. Film studio relief
  13. Make an enquiry

Rural rate relief

Mandatory rural rate relief will be awarded if your business is in a designated rural area with a population below 3,000.

Rural Settlement List 

Areas included in the rural settlement list for the purposes of granting relief are as follows:

  • Firbeck
  • Gildingwells
  • Harthill with Woodall
  • Hooton Levitt
  • Hooton Roberts
  • Letwell
  • Ravenfield
  • Thorpe Salvin
  • Todwick
  • Ulley
  • Wentworth Village
  • Woodsetts
  • Harley in the parish of Wentworth
  • Laughton Common
  • Brampton-en-le-Morthen
  • Laughton-en-le-Morthen village
  • Brookhouse village in the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen
  • Carr village in the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen
  • Slade Hooton village in the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen

 

With effect from 1 April 2024 100% mandatory relief is available if:

  • the property is the only general store, the only post office or a food shop and has a rateable value of less than £8,500, or
  • the only public house or the only petrol station and has a rateable value of less than £12,500
  • the property must be occupied

 

For details of the reliefs available in 2024 to 2025, please contact us using the make an enquiry section.

 

  • Next page: Mandatory and discretionary rate relief

Stay connected

Sign up for our newsletter
Footer Logo: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
  • About this website
  • Accessibility statement
  • Privacy
  • Languages
  • Contact Us
  • Location
  • Terms and conditions
  • Facebook logo
  • Twitter logo
  • YouTube logo
  • Instagram logo
  • LinkedIn logo

All content © 2025 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. All Rights Reserved.

Designed and Powered by Jadu.

chatbot launch button image
Left Right
Full Wide Split Narrow
Chatbot avatar image
Hi, I'm Bailey
I'm here to answer your questions.

Hi, I'm Bailey, how can I help you today? You can ask me questions relating to a number of council services.

To start a chat you will need to click 'continue' to confirm you have read and understood our terms and conditions Privacy Policy.

Privacy Statement