Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2018)

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Ealing Borough Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Ealing 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 71% 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

foirequests, Ealing Borough Council

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Dear Gavin Chait,

 

Please find attached response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you can request
an internal review. 

Details of the Freedom of Information complaints process can be found at:

 

[1]http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200640/fre...

 

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working days of your receipt of this response.  Any such request received
after this time will only be considered at our discretion.

 

If you remain dissatisfied by the outcome of the Internal Review you have
the right to submit your complaint to the Information Commissioner at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

 

 

Kind Regards

 

Information Governance Team (FOI/EIR)

 

Ealing Council

Freedom of Information

3rd  Floor, North East

Perceval House

14-16 Uxbridge Road

London W5 2HL

Tel: (020) 8825 5000

 

 

 

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Dear foirequests,

Thank you so much for the data provided, however it is in PDF format. Can you provide this as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait