Commercial & Industrial building occupancy rates

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Dear Worthing Borough Council,

Can you please provide the figures for occupation and vacant levels relating to commercial and industrial units within the town.

i.e

Commercial units occupied =10
Commercial units vacant = 2

Industrial units occupied =1
Industrial units vacant = 2

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Smith

Worthing Borough Council

Hi

We have recently received a request for information and allocated it the
reference FOI/864743/2018. Please quote this in any correspondance in
relation to this matter. 

For your information, this is what you requested:

Can you please provide the figures for occupation and vacant levels
relating to commercial and industrial units within the town.

i.e

Commercial units occupied =10 
Commercial units vacant = 2

Industrial units occupied =1 
Industrial units vacant = 2

You should expect to hear from us within 20 working days.

If we are are not able to provide the information, we will tell you why. 

Yours Sincerely,
Adur and Worthing Councils

Worthing Borough Council

Dear Stephen Smith

Thank you for your request made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
 
Please find below the Council's response to your request for information.

Request
Can you please provide the figures for occupation and vacant levels
relating to commercial and industrial units within the town.

Response
We confirm that the department holds information that you have asked for.
The information is exempt under section 21 of the FOI Act because it is
reasonably accessible to you, and I am pleased to inform you that you can
access it via the following link:
https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/busines...
this page is updated at the beginning of each month.

To obtain the information you have requested from our website click on the
spreadsheet "NDR Extract Data (Worthing)".
- The spreadsheet can then be filtered into premises which empty and which
are not.
- The description of the premises is also provided but we use many types
of premises e.g. shop & premises, Public House & premises etc etc. The
closest description we have to industrial is Workshop & premises, Factory
& Premises and warehouse & premises.

Section 21 Exemption:
Freedom of Information Act exempts disclosure of information that is
reasonably accessible by other means, and the terms of the exemption mean
that we do not have to consider whether or not it would be in the public
interest for you to have the information.

You can also find more information by reading the full text of the Act,
available at
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/gui...

We have provided below some of the guidance we use when applying Section
21 of the Freedom of Information Act.

This exemption is aimed at preserving intact all existing laws providing
access to information. The Freedom of Information Act is not designed to
subsume other legal access rights, nor to give alternative routes of
access where existing regimes are already available. The Freedom of
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access rights. Those existing rights, and the separate procedural regimes
which are tailored to them, continue in place, and the Freedom of
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The exemption also confirms that the Freedom of Information Act does not
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are designed to supplement, and not to duplicate, the usual flow of
information to the public through the commercial electronic and print
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We hope the information provided assists you.

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Yours sincerely

Information Officer | Adur & Worthing Councils

Email: [Worthing Borough Council request email] | Website:
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