Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data

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

Dear North Dorset 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

FOI Officer, North Dorset District Council

 

Thank you for your request for information.

You will receive the information requested within 20 working days unless
North Dorset District Council does not hold the information or there is a
reason for it to be withheld.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and a fees notice will be
issued to you.   You will be required to pay before the Council will
proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the
Council.

 

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FOI Officer, North Dorset District Council

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Good Afternoon

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST

Your request for information has now been considered and the response to your questions is shown in the attached spreadsheet.

The legislation allows you to use the information supplied for your own personal use. Please be aware that any commercial or other use, for example publication, sale, or redistribution may be a breach of copyright under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended unless you obtain the copyright holder's prior permission.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request please write to:
FOI Officer [email address]

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Please be aware that the Information Commissioner does not normally consider appeals or complaints until the internal appeals and complaints processes of the public authority which is answering the request have been exhausted. You are therefore advised to complain or appeal to North Dorset District Council before contacting the Commissioner.

FOI OFFICER

Dorset Councils Partnership serving:
North Dorset District Council, West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council

01258 454111
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Dear FOI Officer,

Thank you for the data, however, I do intend to use these data commercially.

The purpose of our use of the data requested is in informing entrepreneurs and business seekers about opportunities in empty premises when they are advertised for new tenants. Further details on our activities are available at http://pikhaya.com, but our activity is supported by the Open Data Institute and we have received funding from the EU Open Data Incubator to develop this service.

According to the Information Commissioners Office, "RPSI is intended to encourage re-use of public sector information" - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/gui... In addition, organisations "may impose conditions on re-use but the conditions must be as open and non-restrictive as possible. The easiest way to do this is to use the Open Government Licence."

Could you please advise if you are able to release these under the UK Open Government License so that I am able to republish?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

FOI Officer, North Dorset District Council

 

Thank you for your request for information.

You will receive the information requested within 20 working days unless
North Dorset District Council does not hold the information or there is a
reason for it to be withheld.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and a fees notice will be
issued to you.   You will be required to pay before the Council will
proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the
Council.

 

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FOI Officer, North Dorset District Council

Good Morning

 

Generally unless the data is personal data requiring consent for
disclosure or specifically covered by other arrangements  e.g. legal
privilege or one of the exemptions copyright does not apply to FOI.

 

Regards

 

FOI OFFICER

 

Dorset Councils Partnership serving:

North Dorset District Council, West Dorset District Council and Weymouth &
Portland Borough Council

 

01258 454111

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Dear FOI Officer,

Thanks, yes, however your earlier correspondence specifically says "Please be aware that any commercial or other use, for example publication, sale, or redistribution may be a breach of copyright under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended unless you obtain the copyright holder's prior permission."

For the avoidance of all doubt, I would appreciate clarity on my use for commercial purposes of the data provided.

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

FOI Officer, North Dorset District Council

 

Thank you for your request for information.

You will receive the information requested within 20 working days unless
North Dorset District Council does not hold the information or there is a
reason for it to be withheld.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and a fees notice will be
issued to you.   You will be required to pay before the Council will
proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the
Council.

 

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http://www.dorsetforyou.com
Email: [email address]
Main line: 01258 454111
Main fax: 01258 480179
North Dorset District Council, Nordon, Salisbury Road, Blandford Forum,
DT11 7LL

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The views expressed above are personal unless stated otherwise. NDDC is
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