How to reduce your Business Rates bill

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 2023/24 please contact Business Rates here