Commercial rates for firewood storage building

[Philip Anderson]

Can anybody tell me what rates per square metre and what classification a firewood storage and splitting shed comes under thanks for any info.

[openspaceman]

Can anybody tell me what rates per square metre and what classification a firewood storage and splitting shed comes under thanks for any info.

 

Storage is likely to be B8 but splitting probably B2, cost to rent will vary greatly with area and the business rate will be about 40% of the rent, many councils offer small businesses relief. If buildings have not been rated by VOA keep your head low.

[Axholme]

If you can prove that you completely rely on forestry for your business than you shouldn't need to pay any business rates. It's the same as agriculture.

[Philip Anderson]

Thanks ,too late unfortunately voa wise,it is a site yard that we have owned for 18 years and have just won an enforcement appeal on changing it from woodland to woodland for importation of timber for commercial use.the storage shed area is 120 square metres a slatted sided drying shed/ pole barn.

I expecting to pay rates but wondered what they were per square metre for this type of building.

[Philip Anderson]

If you can prove that you completely rely on forestry for your business than you shouldn't need to pay any business rates. It's the same as agriculture.

 

Unfortunately it's more arb contracting than forestry a bit of woodland management but that's it ,the site itself is a 2.5 acre mixed woodland so some scope for part of the building to be used for management of that.

[openspaceman]

Thanks ,too late unfortunately voa wise,it is a site yard that we have owned for 18 years and have just won an enforcement appeal on changing it from woodland to woodland for importation of timber for commercial use.the storage shed area is 120 square metres a slatted sided drying shed/ pole barn.

I expecting to pay rates but wondered what they were per square metre for this type of building.

 

As I said the rates tend to be about 40% of the rateable value. The rateable value is its notional rental income.

[pete23]

lol. just going through all this hassle myself at the moment.

 

I rent a small unit off a local farmer, along with four other folk in units.

 

long story short, if you get valued at under 6k per year you don't pay out due to the small business relief thingy. that's under the current gov.

 

I got valued at 1400 per year, then half it roughly and that what your expected to pay, but with relief and a lot of grief I hopefully wont be paying anything.

 

found out today, when I got the bill from the council, I,d got five bills back dating to 2010!! but all looking good at the min.

 

just another tax, I would not see any benefit from it if I had to pay it, good ol blighty.

[Alycidon]

Its not as though you actually get much for it. You have to pay additionally for rubbish away, a Police service that almost never turns up if needed, to busy catching speeding drivers. Its a tax to pay for palatial council offices and index linked civil service pensions.

 

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[doobin]

Its not as though you actually get much for it. You have to pay additionally for rubbish away, a Police service that almost never turns up if needed, to busy catching speeding drivers. Its a tax to pay for palatial council offices and index linked civil service pensions.

 

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Never a truer word spoken.

[R5log]

They can only go back to 2010 and you pay 47 pence in the pound for rateable value over £6000

So if they rate it at £7000 you pay £470.

 

It's depends on type of shed, open or door etc, security, where it is etc

 

There's a lot of people who get away with it but if they take the relief away and you are rated at £7000 it will be nearly £4000! Rates