Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2018)

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Dear Hastings Borough Council,

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, could you please provide me with a complete and up-to-date list of all business (non-residential) property rates data for your local authority, and including the following fields:

- Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the VOA database reference)
- Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant)
- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)
- Occupied / Vacant
- Date of Occupation / Vacancy
- Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds)

If you are unable to provide an absolute “Occupation / Vacancy” status, please provide the Exemptions and / or Reliefs that a particular property may be receiving.

Please provide these data as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence (meaning reuse for any and all purposes, including commercial).

I last requested this data three months ago, and this is a request for an updated and current dataset.

I'm sure you get many requests for business rates and responding and managing these FOIs must be costly for you. Could I request that - as 65% of local authorities now do - you update and release this dataset via a dedicated page on your local authority website or on an open data service. I can recommend approaches for you to consider, and you should find that this reduces the time and cost of this request process.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Chait

Information Officer, Hastings Borough Council

Thank you for contacting us.
 
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Information Officer
Hastings Borough Council
01424 451066
[2]www.hastings.gov.uk
 
 
 
 

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Information Officer, Hastings Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait
 
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request ref: FOI-72083704
 
Please find attached our response.
 
 
Yours sincerely
 
Lisa Greathead
Information Officer
Hastings Borough Council
Muriel Matters House
Breeds Place
Hastings 
TN34 3UY
 
 

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Gareth Elton left an annotation ()

This data for Q2 barely covers Q1! 4 businesses from Jan 1 and 2 from February 1, slow quarter for Hastings...