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Customer (James Windsor) 11/08/2010 03.27 AM
Dear Enfield Council,

Please can you supply me with a spreadsheet of all the unoccupied
properties in Enfield whose owners are benefiting from a reduction
or exemption in council tax because of them being empty -
commercial and/or residential.

Please provide as much information as you can, legally or
practically.

Yours faithfully,

James Windsor

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Question Reference No100811-000000
Date Created: 11/08/2010 03.27 AM
Last Updated: 11/08/2010 03.27 AM
Status: Correspondence team

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Under section 31, information is exempt from disclosure if such disclosure
would be likely to prejudice “the prevention or detection of crime”. It is
the Council’s view that the prevention or detection of crime includes fraud
that is committed from empty properties and the physical security of
buildings. This is a qualified
exemption where the public interest test needs to be applied. After
careful consideration the Council does not believe it to be in the public
interest to release the information to you. This is because the danger of
releasing details of empty properties may lead to cases of fraud, burglary,
arson or squatting and this outweighs any public interest in releasing this
information.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts as
a Refusal Notice under Section 17.

Geoff Waterton
Head of Collection

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