Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Gavin Chait made this Rhyddid Gwybodaeth request to Gloucestershire County 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 Gloucestershire County 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
Information request
Our reference: 2393225
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Dear Mr Chait
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request. Unfortunately, we do not hold the information
requested. However, the information may be held by the districts and you
can contact them direct at:
Cheltenham Borough Council
Municipal Offices
Promenade
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 9SA
Telephone: 01242 264350
Email: [1][email address]
Cotswold District Council
Trinity Road
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 1PX
Telephone: 01285 623000
Email: [2][email address]
Forest of Dean District Council
Council Offices
High Street
Coleford
Gloucestershire
GL16 8HG
Telephone: 01594 812487
Email: [3][email address]
Gloucester City Council
Business Improvement and Performance Service
Gloucester City Council
North Warehouse
The Docks
Gloucester
GL1 2EP
Telephone: 01452 396712
Email: [4][email address]
Web: [5]www.gloucester.gov.uk/foi
Stroud District Council
Legal Assistant
Stroud District Council
Westward Road
Ebley
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 4UB
Email: [6][email address]
Tewkesbury Borough Council
Borough Solicitor
Tewkesbury Borough Council
Council Offices
Gloucester Road
Tewkesbury
GL20 5TT
Telephone: 01684 295010
Email: [7][email address]
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Sue Morris
Information Management Service Administrator
01452 324000
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