List of commercial properties not receiving small business rate relief

I am out of the office and will return on 4 January 2010.

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Thank you for your request for information received at this office on 4 January 2010. This has been considered as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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Carl Wiper LLM MCLIP
Corporate Information Manager
Bolton Council, Room 320, Town Hall, Bolton BL1 1RU tel: 01204 331031, mobile: 0778 903 1512
[email address]

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Dear Mr Woodley

Further to your request below, can you please confirm whether you actually
require the name of the owner of the property or the name of the business
ratepayer (i.e. the occupier)?

If you can clarify this point we will progress your request.

Yours sincerely

_________________________________________________
Carl Wiper  LLM MCLIP

Corporate Information Manager
Bolton Council, Room 320, Town Hall, Bolton BL1 1RU tel: 01204 331031,
mobile: 0778 903 1512

[email address]

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Dear Mr Woodley

Thank you for your clarification.

For a property to be eligible it must be occupied by a person that meets
the criteria for granting relief (i.e. they only occupy that property and
the rateable value is below £15,000 or that property and others where the
rateable value of the others is below £2,200 and total rateable value of
all properties is below £15,000). We check these criteria when we receive
an application. In order to answer your request we would have to check all
possible cases using these criteria, which we estimate would take more
than 18 hours. The Freedom of Information Act does not require us to
provide information if to do so would exceed that limit.

If you are able to reduce the scope of your request we will consider
whether it is possible to answer it within the limits prescribed by the
Act.

Yours sincerely

_________________________________________________
Carl Wiper  LLM MCLIP

Corporate Information Manager
Bolton Council, Room 320, Town Hall, Bolton BL1 1RU tel: 01204 331031,
mobile: 0778 903 1512

[email address]

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