Handel Rating Consultancy
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Specialist in the management and mitigation of business rates across the sector
Overview
Products & Services
Regardless of whether you operate a single asset or a portfolio across the UK, HRC can help lessen the burden imposed by business rates across the full range of low carbon generation technologies. Our comprehensive rating service is designed to reduce costs, maximise tax reliefs and refunds, and manage future risk.
New Developments
If the business rates burden is in danger of impacting on the financial viability of a project, HRC will recommend a proactive strategy be used with the rates authorities to make sure you pay the lowest possible charges from day one.
The advantage of this strategy is that it gives you the confidence – at the point of project commissioning – that you are paying no more than necessary, while avoiding the uncertainties and expense inherent in the rates appeal system.
Rates Relief
Rates relief and exemptions are available to owners of low carbon generating plant and can deliver substantial savings. However, ratepayers are often unaware of the opportunities or how to best go about securing them.
HRC will make sure that all available rates relief and exemptions are obtained from the Valuation Office and local councils, and these can remain in place for the entire life of the asset.
Operational Portfolio
HRC will carefully consider the merits of any appeal challenges against your rating assessment, and we will vigorously negotiate reductions in rateable value on your behalf. We have a track record of concluding many successful appeals for our clients, with outcomes often delivering substantial refunds for past overpayments as well as future savings.
Rates Management & Budgeting
HRC will review the accuracy of your rates demands prior to authorising payment. We can also provide our clients with robust budget figures for future rating costs, suitable for inclusion in future business plans.
Changing Physical Circumstances
If it can be shown that there is a change in the way that you operate your assets, or a change in the locality, there may be an opportunity for your business rates to be renegotiated. Rates savings may be achieved, particularly if your profitability should be adversely affected by the change. HRC will ensure that such opportunities are fully exploited to reduce the rates burden during such times.
Overview
A RICS Chartered Surveyor with 25 years’ professional experience, Chris is a passionate and knowledgeable advisor to the low carbon energy generation sector, with an impressive track record of delivering business objectives across the key technologies – solar, wind and energy from waste (EFW).
Chris was a Director for Rating & Taxation at leading real estate provider CBRE until 2015, where he acted as account manager for many of the UK’s best known financial, investment and occupier clients including HSBC, American Express, UBS Global Asset Management, Hewlett Packard, Tate & Lyle, AON, Nufield Health and Fitness, St Martins Property Corporation, Corney and Barrow and Inmarsat.
With Handel Rating Consultants, Chris has built a thriving independent company specialising in the management and mitigation of the business rates burden imposed on the owners and operators of low carbon electricity generation.
Chris has a reputation for delivering a first-class service to his clients while consistently achieving market-beating results across national portfolios and specialist sites. He has used his specialist knowledge to secure substantial operating cost savings for renewable energy developers including John Laing, Energiekontor, and Anaerobic Digester developers Tamar Energy.
Away from work, Chris is a committed low carbon homeowner, having refurbished his family home near Brighton to the highest standards of energy efficiency. He took part in the SuperHomes project which received much media coverage, notably in The Telegraph and The Guardian.
Chris is also Chairman of HKD Energy, a non-profit community organisation which recently celebrated the success of its first solar installation, one of the largest school sector projects in the UK, in partnership with Downlands School, gaining the praise of local MP Nick Herbert.
