Hi Fiona, Frank, Mark We are still in contact with the rating authority and are hoping to negotiate some sort of deal (the six months rate relief that Fiona mentioned). The ratings authority has discretion to deal with "hardship". It will genuinely be the case that a large upfront rates bill will create hardship for us! Our space is one large open plan area so options to split the space up are limited. So we are now hoping to negotiate a 6 month or similar rate free period and are somewhat resigned to eventually paying the full rates on the space and hope that we can fill it quickly enough to mitigate any cash flow issues. Incidentally us paying the full rates means that in effect the rates bill is being passed on to our customers who are all going to be early stage businesses meaning that they therefore do not get small business rate relief. The very people, that presumably, the policy was meant to help.
Fiona - I will give you a call. Ed On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 10:00:26 PM UTC, Fiona Frank wrote: > > Hi - we opened in 2013 so have more experience of this. Do you have > separate rooms/units? > > You can negotiate for six months rates relief while you get started . > Make friends with your rates people! > > What we have done is had to rent the separate spaces to different > organisations - sometimes rent free while we were starting up. That way the > different organisations get small business rates relief. > > Please email or phone me for more info > Fiona > > Green Elephant Cooperative > Halton Mill Mill Lane Halton LA2 6ND > Www.haltonmill.org.uk > > [email protected] <javascript:> tel 07582 789406 or 07778 737681 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
