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

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Dear Warrington 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

FOI, Warrington Borough Council

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FOI ACE, Warrington Borough Council

Dear Mr Chait,

 

You have made a request for information regarding Business Rates.

 

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act) provides that
Information is exempt from the requirement of disclosure under section 1of
the Act where that information is reasonably accessible to the applicant
otherwise than under section 1. 

Information is reasonably accessible to the applicant, irrespective of
their individual circumstances, if it is included in the public
authority’s publication scheme

The information you have requested is available in the public domain via
the Warrington Borough Council publication scheme and I have enclosed a
link to the information requested in accordance with the scheme. Please
see here-
[1]https://www.warrington.gov.uk/info/20112...

 

Accordingly I am refusing your request for information under the Act.

 

If you are not satisfied with my response to your request for information,
you may ask the Council for an internal review of this decision. You
should write to Paul Clisby, Legal Services Manager at Warrington Borough
Council, Quattro, Buttermarket Street, Warrington, WA1 1BN, giving details
of your complaint. You should do this as soon as possible, or, in any
case, within two months of your request being refused.

 

If, following the outcome of the internal review, you remain dissatisfied
with the Council's response to your information request, you have the
right under section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to appeal to
the Information Commissioner at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 01625 545745

Fax: 01625 545 510

Email: [2][email address] <[3]mailto:[email address]>

 

 

Many thanks

 

The FOI Administrator

 

 

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Dear FOI ACE,

I know you are publishing data here https://www.warrington.gov.uk/info/20112..., however data available is not recent, may I know when your next update will be?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

FOI ACE, Warrington Borough Council

Hi Gavin,

Thank you for your enquiry.

The up to date information should be published by the end of the week.

Many thanks.

FOI Administrator

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FOI ACE, Warrington Borough Council

Dear Mr Chait,

Please see below a link to the up to date Business Rates information.

https://www.warrington.gov.uk/downloads/...

Many thanks.

FOI Administrator

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