Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)

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Dear Darlington 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

Darlington Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait

 

Thank you for your request for information, received 09 April 2020. 

 

We are processing your request in accordance with our Freedom of
Information and Environmental Information Request Procedure, which you can
find on our [2]website.

 

While you could ordinarily expect a full response to your request within
20 working days in light of the restrictions currently in place due to
COVID-19 and the need to target our resources at meeting the needs of the
most vulnerable it is likely there will be a delay in you receiving a
response.  I apologise in advance, but trust you can appreciate why we are
unable to provide our usual standard of service during the pandemic.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Susan Williamson

Complaints & Information Governance Assistant

(01325) 406777

 

 

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Dear Mr Chait

 

Request reference: DBC-0036-20 

Please find attached the Council's response to your recent request for
information. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Rachel Seddon

Complaints & Information Governance Assistant

(01325) 406777

 

 

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Dear Darlington Borough Council,

I am happy to withdraw the request for actual annual rates paid if you are able to fulfil the balance of this request:

- 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

In addition, if you are able to provide the value of the Exemptions and / or Reliefs that a particular property may be receiving, then I would be able to reconcile the actual amount paid from that. However, if that is not possible, please do not regard that is preventing release of the balance of the information requested.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Chait

Darlington Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait

Please see the Council's response to your recent request attached.

  

Yours sincerely

 

 

Susan Williamson

Complaints & Information Governance Assistant

(01325) 406777

 

 

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