{"id":726615,"date":"2026-01-28T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726615\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:40:24","slug":"an-essential-new-map-shows-which-london-pubs-are-most-at-risk-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726615\/","title":{"rendered":"An Essential New Map Shows Which London Pubs Are Most At Risk of Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past few months have been a real roller coaster for pubs in the UK<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In November Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Budget that business rates would rise for all businesses in Britain in April 2026. This was obviously bad news for pubs, many of which were already struggling.<\/p>\n

Following widespread backlash from pubs, today (January 28) Reeves declared that all pubs and music venues would receive a 15 percent discount on their\u00a0rates business bills from April 2026 until 2029. However, many pubs are still in trouble thanks to a range of factors, including the rise of the National Living Wage, climbing energy costs, increasing alcohol duty and falling consumer spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Ben Guerrin created ismypubfucked.com, a map showing\u00a0the risk of closure for every\u00a0pub in the UK. Guerrin\u2019s site also includes a\u00a0leaderboard of the \u2018most fucked\u2019 pubs in Britain which can be filtered by postcode, ranking 45,936 drinking spots on a scale of \u2018fine\u2019 to \u2018absolutely fucked\u2019.<\/p>\n

The website uses official data from the\u00a0Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the government body responsible for business rates in England and Wales. It compares the current rates with the proposed new rates for 2026 to calculate how big the risk of closure will be when the rates change in April of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nImage: ismypubfucked.com <\/p>\n

According to the map, some of the most at-risk pubs in London include the Spit and Sawdust<\/strong> in Southwark, the Duke of Wellington<\/strong> in the City of London, the Nobody Inn<\/strong> in Newington Green and the Bell House<\/strong> in Marylebone. These pubs all fell under the \u2018absolutely fucked\u2019 category, meaning they could see more than a 200 percent increase on their ratable value.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Want to discover the fate of your own local? Check out Guerrin\u2019s website here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Want to support your local boozer? Here\u2019s Time Out\u2019s official list of the best pubs in London<\/a>. Long may they live.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus: This iconic part of the City of London wants to become the capital\u2019s next major foodie destination<\/a>.\u00a0
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Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<\/strong>follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay in the loop: sign up to our\u00a0<\/strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The past few months have been a real roller coaster for pubs in the UK.\u00a0 In November Chancellor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,13285,393,4884,257,15144,280,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-726615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news-drinking","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115973483612849593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}