Business rates in Newham

4,073 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 275 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Newham
Premises assessed
4,073
Median rateable value
£18,250
Streets covered
275

In Newham, 790 of 4,073 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (19.4%) 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).

1,161 (28.5%) 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 Newham?

A typical Newham shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £18,250. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £6,972 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 Newham pay no business rates?

1,161 of the 4,065 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Newham (28.6%) 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 12.3% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

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

The typical change against the 2023 list is +14.3%. 19.4% of premises rose by 25% or more and 4.1% fell. 310 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Newham 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 60 pubs in Newham, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR NEWHAM
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 3,649 89.6%
Hospitality 362 8.9%
Leisure 62 1.5%

Flags across Newham

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 1,161 28.5%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 471 11.6%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 444 10.9%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 790 19.4%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 27 0.7%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 1,578 38.7%

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 Newham

The spread of rateable values across Newham, 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 4,065 £11,500 £18,250 £40,750
Retail 3,643 £11,250 £17,250 £37,000
Hospitality 360 £15,188 £32,750 £89,625
Leisure 62 £30,062 £78,250 £190,750

Value per square metre in Newham

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 3,941 £400 £475 £685
Retail 3,638 £415 £478 £690
Hospitality 257 £300 £440 £550
Leisure 46 £81 £115 £171

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 Newham

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. 87 of 275 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 Montfichet Road E20 302 £2,300 £204,000
2 Great Eastern Road E15 5 £2,235 £68,500
3 High Street North E6 178 £950 £47,000
4 Green Street E7 300 £900 £27,500
5 Myrtle Road E6 8 £825 £26,500
6 St Johns Road E6 8 £825 £13,625
7 Broadway E15 41 £785 £46,500
8 Green Street E13 165 £755 £25,375
9 Plashet Grove E6 73 £690 £18,500
10 Crescent Road E6 6 £655 £19,250
11 High Street North E12 168 £635 £23,375
12 Queens Market E13 58 £605 £23,250
13 The Grove E15 43 £565 £23,750
14 Leytonstone Road E15 94 £540 £14,125
15 Station Street E15 5 £525 £26,250
16 Minnie Baldock Street E16 11 £505 £59,500
17 Plashet Road E13 68 £485 £13,000
18 Upton Lane E7 98 £485 £16,250
19 Forest Lane E7 7 £480 £14,250
20 Romford Road E15 20 £480 £19,125
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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.

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