Details of all properties that have any historic credit on their account

Dear Natalie Davis,
Thank you for your request for information made under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. You will receive a response within 20
working days of the date I received your request, which was 9th July 2010.

Thank you

Lucy Jackson
Quality & Training
Revenues & Benefits

Department of Corporate Services
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Tel: 01274 434298
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Dear Ms Davies

Thanks you for request for information under the Freedom of information
Act 2000, you requested the following information.

(a) addresses and rateable values of all properties that have any

historic credit on their account

(b) the names and addresses of the owners of those properties

referred to in (a)

In order for me to deal with your request I would be grateful if you could
be more specific with the regards to the information you require so that I
can determine whether this information is held.

What do mean by 'historic credit'?

Once I have this information I will able to consider your request.

Elizabeth Lavan
Assistant Revenues Manager(Business Rates)
Revenues & Benefits

Department of Corporate Services
lBusiness Transformation lRevenues & Benefits lFinance lHuman Resources
lLegal & Democratic

Tel: 01274 437862
Fax: 01274 736529

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Britannia House, Hall
Ings, Bradford BD1 1HX

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Dear Ms Davies

I refer to your 2 requests for information, which I received on 8^th &
9^th July 2010. Unfortunately I am unable to reply to your request within
the required timescale. Please accept my apologies.

You will receive a full response by Friday 13^th August

Janette Sagar
Assistant Support Manager (Service Support)
Revenues & Benefits
Department of Corporate Services
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lLegal & Democratic

Tel: 01274 434957
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Dear Ms Davies

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
information Act 2000, where you requested the following information:

(a) addresses and rateable values of all properties that have any

historic credit on their account

(b) the names and addresses of the owners of those properties

referred to in (a)

I can confirm that the council does hold, in part, information relevant to
your request on a database for the purpose of the billing and collection
of Non Domestic Rates, however I regret that the information is not
currently held in a form that would allow the Council to respond to your
precise request and therefore is more difficult to locate, retrieve and
extract. I am therefore unable to fulfil your request.

You have requested details of the owners of the properties which have a
credit against them. I cannot be 100% certain that the names connected to
the property details are indeed the owner of the property and cannot
therefore extract this information. Each record would have to be
individually looked at and checked to establish whether the owner
information is held.

In addition the computer system we use is not able to differentiate
between individuals and companies and therefore it would be a further
manual exercise to look at each record in order to determine whether that
owner was a company or individual. Where owner information exists we would
then need to ensure that no personal data is revealed in accordance with
section (1) (1) of the Data Protection Act 1998. Any such data which is
held will be exempt under section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act in
respect of Data Protection. The process of checking each record and the
sifting out of personal data and establishing owner details would take us
well in excess of the statutory costs limit in the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 of £450.00 therefore you request is refused.

If you are not satisfied with this reply you may ask for a review of this
decision by contacting [1][Bradford City Council request email] or by writing to Freedom of
Information, 4^th Floor, Jacobs Well, Bradford BD1 5RW.

If you are still not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review you
have the right of appeal to the Information Commissioner who can be
contacted at:

Information Commissioner*s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Tel: 01625 545700

URL: [2]http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Elizabeth Lavan
Assistant Revenues Manager(Business Rates)
Revenues & Benefits

Department of Corporate Services
lBusiness Transformation lRevenues & Benefits lFinance lHuman Resources
lLegal & Democratic

Tel: 01274 437862
Fax: 01274 736529

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Britannia House, Hall
Ings, Bradford BD1 1HX

e-mail: [3][email address]
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