Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Gavin Chait made this Rhyddid Gwybodaeth request to East Devon District Council as part of a batch sent to 24 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear East Devon District Council,
In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, 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 Code
- 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)
While such data series are often published by local authorities, I have undertaken a thorough search of your website and have not found these. If they are available, as requested, then please - in terms of Section 21 of the act - could you provide a link to the page where the data are published, as well as guidance on the update frequency.
I appreciate that properties owned / rented by individuals are personal information and such personal data (i.e. the Firm's Trading Name) would be excluded from my request in terms of Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In such cases, please provide the remaining information with the Firm's Trading Name either blank or listed as 'individual'.
Please provide this as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence.
I am compiling a comprehensive time-series database of business activity across the UK and will require the dataset updated on a quarterly basis. Some 20% of local authorities already provide this dataset (and a total of 30% of local authorities provide a subset of these data) on a monthly to quarterly basis on a dedicated page on their websites or on an open data service. I would appreciate it if you could do the same.
Yours faithfully,
Gavin Chait
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Customer Service Centre
East Devon District Council
Web: www.eastdevon.gov.uk
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your request for information. Please find attached a
spreadsheet in response to your request below.
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 Code
- 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)
I am compiling a comprehensive time-series database of business activity
across the UK and will require the dataset updated on a quarterly basis.
Some 20% of local authorities already provide this dataset (and a total of
30% of local authorities provide a subset of these data) on a monthly to
quarterly basis on a dedicated page on their websites or on an open data
service. I would appreciate it if you could do the same - At present this
information is not available on our website, however we are reviewing
whether such data could be published and updated on a regular basis.
If you are not satisfied with the way we have responded to your request,
please fill in our online complaint form at
[1]www.eastdevon.gov.uk/making_a_complaint or write to the Monitoring
Officer, EDDC, Knowle, Sidmouth, EX10 8HL.
Yours sincerely,
Sara
Ms S Harvey
Information and Complaints Officer
East Devon District Council
01395 571659
[2]www.eastdevon.gov.uk
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