Business rates in Harrow

2,305 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 161 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Harrow
Premises assessed
2,305
Median rateable value
£18,375
Streets covered
161

In Harrow, 631 of 2,305 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (27.4%) saw their rateable value rise by 25% or more at the April 2026 revaluation, according to our analysis of the 2026 rating list (data as of August 2026).

524 (22.7%) have a rateable value of £12,000 or less, the band where small business rate relief can take the bill to nil, on rateable value alone.

How much are business rates in Harrow?

A typical Harrow shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £18,375. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £7,019 a year before any relief. Small business rate relief, transitional relief and supporting small business relief can reduce it, in some cases to nil. What is actually on a bill only the bill shows.

How many shops in Harrow pay no business rates?

524 of the 2,302 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Harrow (22.8%) have a 2026 rateable value of £12,000 or below. That is the band where small business rate relief can take the bill to nil, for an occupier of one property. A further 14.1% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

How much did rateable values change in Harrow at the 2026 revaluation?

The typical change against the 2023 list is +14.3%. 27.4% of premises rose by 25% or more and 11.9% fell. 228 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Harrow shop or café check in 2026/27?

Four. Small business rate relief, which has to be claimed. The retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier, which depends on how the council has coded the property. Transitional relief and supporting small business relief, which cap the rise after the revaluation and should appear automatically. And for the 46 pubs in Harrow, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR HARROW
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 1,974 85.6%
Hospitality 253 11.0%
Leisure 78 3.4%

Flags across Harrow

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 524 22.7%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 295 12.8%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 226 9.8%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 631 27.4%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 5 0.2%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 969 42.0%

A flag records where a premises sits in the public record. It is not a finding that a bill is wrong. The bill itself shows which reliefs and which multiplier were applied. Source: 2026 rating list, data as of August 2026.

Rateable values in Harrow

The spread of rateable values across Harrow, by type of premises. If yours sits well outside the range for its type, that is worth understanding. On its own it is not evidence of an error.

Premises typePremises Lower quartileMedian Upper quartile
All retail, hospitality and leisure 2,302 £12,500 £18,375 £29,000
Retail 1,971 £12,250 £17,500 £26,750
Hospitality 253 £18,250 £26,750 £46,750
Leisure 78 £7,275 £19,750 £47,188

Value per square metre in Harrow

Rateable values are largely built from a rate per square metre applied to the trading area. That rate is what decides your valuation. It is published only in the detailed valuations, premises by premises. The summary below is ours.

Premises typeWith published area Lower quartileMedian Upper quartile
All retail, hospitality and leisure 2,224 £355 £435 £510
Retail 1,963 £355 £435 £510
Hospitality 190 £372 £450 £525
Leisure 71 £42 £60 £155

Per square metre of floor area (NIA), from the published detailed valuations. Premises without a published area are not counted.

The most valuable retail streets in Harrow

Streets ranked by the median value per square metre of their retail, hospitality and leisure premises. Only streets with at least five premises with a published area are ranked. 63 of 161 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 St Anns Road HA1 97 £905 £66,500
2 St Johns Road HA1 6 £900 £9,800
3 Uxbridge Road HA5 77 £690 £33,500
4 Sheepcote Road HA1 8 £685 £31,875
5 High Street HA5 37 £675 £22,000
6 College Road HA1 31 £645 £27,750
7 High Street HA1 19 £625 £24,750
8 Bridge Street HA5 55 £560 £26,000
9 Burnt Oak Broadway HA8 72 £550 £24,250
10 The Broadway HA7 46 £545 £31,625
11 Love Lane HA5 9 £525 £20,125
12 Queensbury Circle Parade HA7 6 £505 £25,125
13 Station Road HA1 177 £505 £27,750
14 Streatfield Road HA3 42 £505 £20,625
15 Marsh Road HA5 27 £500 £22,750
16 Uxbridge Road HA7 7 £485 £13,750
17 Queensbury Circle Parade HA3 5 £480 £17,250
18 Northolt Road HA2 186 £475 £15,250
19 Pinner Road HA1 54 £470 £17,250
20 Village Way East HA2 27 £470 £17,000
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Questions this data tends to raise

One flat fee: 15% of the savings we secure, confirmed in writing by the council. Nothing saved, nothing to pay.

If there's nothing to save, we say so.