Dear Ms Davis

Information Request NBC885-1212

With reference to your request regarding a list of empty commercial properties within the Borough of Northampton.

Please find attached a .pdf list of empty commercial properties. The Council has redacted owner details where the liable party is a person as opposed to a business. This is to ensure their rights under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 are not breached.

Please note that some of the information is exempt from disclose as it is already publicly available from the following organisations.

Information on the owners of these properties is publicly available from Land Registry. For your convenience detailed below is a link to the relevant website.

http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/

Valuation details on these properties are publicly available from the Valuation Office. For your convenience detailed below is a link to the relevant website.

http://www.voa.gov.uk/

The disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give you a right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of Northampton Borough Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.

If you consider the Council has not provided the information you have requested you have the right to challenge that decision in respect of your information request within 6 months.

Please write to:

Information Access Challenges

Northampton Borough Council

The Guildhall

St Giles Square

Northampton NN1 1DE

Or email: [email address]

If your challenge is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you will then have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.

If you feel your request has been handled unfairly you should, in the first instance, complain using the Council's Customer Feedback form and address it to the department you have been dealing with. The Council's Complaints procedure (a full copy of which is available on the internet, from any Council reception or by telephoning or writing to the Council's Complaints Co-ordinator) will then be used to try and resolve your complaint.

Yours sincerely

Mr D J Taylor

Freedom of Information Officer

Senior Information Governance Officer

Borough Solicitor's Department

www.northampton.gov.uk