Business rates in Sutton

1,913 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 156 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Sutton
Premises assessed
1,913
Median rateable value
£14,250
Streets covered
156

In Sutton, 1,145 of 1,913 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (59.9%) 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).

689 (36.0%) 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 Sutton?

A typical Sutton shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £14,250. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £5,444 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 Sutton pay no business rates?

689 of the 1,908 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Sutton (36.1%) 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 17.7% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

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

The typical change against the 2023 list is +29.3%. 60.0% of premises rose by 25% or more and 6.0% fell. 399 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Sutton 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 49 pubs in Sutton, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR SUTTON
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 1,708 89.3%
Hospitality 150 7.8%
Leisure 55 2.9%

Flags across Sutton

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 689 36.0%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 317 16.6%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 149 7.8%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 1,145 59.9%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 24 1.3%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 377 19.7%

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 Sutton

The spread of rateable values across Sutton, 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 1,908 £10,750 £14,250 £23,500
Retail 1,703 £10,375 £13,750 £20,750
Hospitality 150 £15,375 £29,125 £50,250
Leisure 55 £18,125 £34,750 £109,000

Value per square metre in Sutton

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 1,839 £300 £330 £370
Retail 1,698 £300 £330 £370
Hospitality 97 £300 £350 £400
Leisure 44 £42 £98 £158

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 Sutton

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 156 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 Cheam Road SM1 9 £550 £19,500
2 High Street SM1 224 £500 £35,750
3 Marshalls Road SM1 7 £500 £11,000
4 Mulgrave Road SM2 10 £500 £17,125
5 Grove Road SM1 13 £450 £22,000
6 Croydon Road SM6 11 £400 £12,250
7 High Street SM5 52 £400 £18,000
8 Station Way SM3 31 £400 £15,500
9 Woodcote Road SM6 44 £400 £22,250
10 The Broadway SM3 39 £380 £16,000
11 Wallington Square SM6 22 £375 £21,625
12 Stafford Road SM6 114 £370 £12,750
13 Banstead Road SM5 31 £350 £14,750
14 Carshalton Road SM1 6 £350 £10,250
15 Carshalton Road SM5 10 £350 £13,875
16 Central Road KT4 142 £350 £16,250
17 Ewell Road SM3 13 £350 £17,750
18 High Street SM3 24 £350 £17,250
19 London Road SM3 113 £350 £14,625
20 London Road SM6 22 £350 £11,750
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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.