Support the campaign for pubs

Whilst Ripon BID has been lobbying Sir Julian Smith, MP to ask the Government to rethink the business rates system applied to hospitality – particularly pubs, and he has raised this both in PMQs yesterday and has written to the Chancellor – the more support from our Ripon pubs and their customers the better.

The All Party Parliamentary Beer Group has also written this letter to the Chancellor which Sir Julian has signed.

CAMRA has a useful template you can use to write to Sir Julian which can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ykewazne

If you are a publican and are thinking of using the Check, Challenge, Appeal process to challenge your Rateable Value here is an interesting article about the VOA and how they rate pubs: https://tinyurl.com/y288bc5h and the “Approved” guide can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/28wwsptx