Business rates in Wandsworth

3,534 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 268 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Wandsworth
Premises assessed
3,534
Median rateable value
£23,000
Streets covered
268

In Wandsworth, 940 of 3,534 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (26.6%) 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).

714 (20.2%) 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 Wandsworth?

A typical Wandsworth shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £23,000. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £8,786 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 Wandsworth pay no business rates?

714 of the 3,521 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Wandsworth (20.3%) 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 10.8% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

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

The typical change against the 2023 list is +14.9%. 26.7% of premises rose by 25% or more and 2.6% fell. 279 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Wandsworth 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 130 pubs in Wandsworth, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR WANDSWORTH
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 2,699 76.4%
Hospitality 690 19.5%
Leisure 145 4.1%

Flags across Wandsworth

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 714 20.2%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 345 9.8%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 349 9.9%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 940 26.6%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 5 0.1%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 1,514 42.8%

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 Wandsworth

The spread of rateable values across Wandsworth, 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 3,521 £13,500 £23,000 £47,750
Retail 2,687 £12,500 £20,250 £38,500
Hospitality 689 £19,500 £33,750 £71,000
Leisure 145 £21,750 £52,000 £131,000

Value per square metre in Wandsworth

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 3,337 £370 £540 £750
Retail 2,680 £380 £540 £775
Hospitality 535 £382 £540 £750
Leisure 122 £84 £174 £273

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 Wandsworth

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. 85 of 268 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 Clapham Junction Station SW11 10 £2,400 £33,125
2 St Johns Road SW11 63 £1,650 £74,500
3 Northcote Road SW11 127 £1,300 £52,000
4 Battersea Rise SW11 54 £1,000 £33,375
5 Electric Boulevard SW11 8 £1,000 £300,000
6 Putney High Street SW15 139 £1,000 £51,000
7 Old York Road SW18 42 £975 £24,750
8 Circus Road South SW11 80 £950 £108,500
9 Bellevue Road SW17 23 £900 £34,000
10 Circus Road East SW11 5 £900 £177,500
11 Nightingale Lane SW12 12 £790 £24,875
12 Hildreth Street SW12 17 £780 £25,750
13 Putney Hill SW15 5 £780 £24,750
14 St Johns Hill SW11 89 £780 £30,750
15 Balham High Road SW12 117 £770 £30,625
16 Balham Hill SW12 40 £735 £30,000
17 Bedford Hill SW12 46 £735 £24,625
18 Circus Road West SW11 13 £675 £86,500
19 Lower Richmond Road SW15 79 £650 £18,250
20 Webbs Road SW11 27 £630 £15,000
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Questions this data tends to raise

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