Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Dear Forest of Dean 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 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 this as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence.
We last requested this data more than six months ago, and this is a request for an updated and current dataset.
I'm sure you get many requests for business rates and we intend to update this national series every six months. Could we request that - as more than 30% of local authorities already do - you update and release this dataset via a dedicated page on your local authority website or on an open data service. You should find that this reduces the time and cost of this request process.
Yours faithfully,
Gavin Chait
This email, and any attachment(s) is intended for the addressee only. It
may contain information which is confidential, subject to legal privilege
or protectively marked and should be handled accordingly.
If this Email has been misdirected, please notify the author immediately.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, distribute,
copy, print or rely on any of the information contained in it or attached,
and all copies must be deleted immediately. Whilst we take reasonable
steps to try to identify any software viruses, any attachments to this
Email may nevertheless contain viruses which our anti-virus software has
failed to identify. You should therefore carry out your own anti-virus
checks before opening any documents.
Forest of Dean District Council will not accept any liability for damage
caused by computer viruses emanating from any attachment or other document
supplied with this e-mail. All traffic may be subject to recording and /
or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation.
Dear Gavin,
Further to your request, please find response attached.
The rates payable can be calculated by multiplying the rateable value and
the multiplier, we can not extract these from our system.
il: [1][email address]
Kind Regards
Tracey Griffiths
Assistant Legal Executive
Tel: 01594 812513
Fax: 01594 812470
E-mail: [2][email address]
Gavin Chait left an annotation ()
The empty and exemptions sheets, in the data, include a liability start date, and so this does meet the terms of our request.
We work to defend the right to FOI for everyone
Help us protect your right to hold public authorities to account. Donate and support our work.
Donate Now
Gareth Elton left an annotation ()
no date off occupation/liability start on the Occupiers list.... do you think you could push this to save me submitting a whole new FOI?