Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Rhondda Cynon Taff 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 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.

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 I intend to update this national series every three months. Could I request that - as more than 51% 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. I can recommend approaches for you to consider, and you should find that this reduces the time and cost of this request process.

Thank you and kind regards

Gavin Chait

Freedomofinformation, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

Dear Mr Chait

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (or Environmental Information Regulations 2004, if it
relates to environmental information).

You should ordinarily expect to receive a response to your request no
later than 20 working days following the date of submission to the
Council. We will contact you should this not be the case.

Yours sincerely

Corporate Governance Team
for Director of Legal & Democratic Services

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Freedomofinformation, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait

We refer to your Freedom of Information Request in respect of Business
Rates.

Please refer to the attachment for the Authority's response.

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can request a review of the Council’s response. If you wish
to exercise this right, please set out in writing your grounds and send
your appeal to Mrs Julie Llewellyn. She may be reached at
[1][email address] or at RCT CBC, The Pavilions, Clydach
Vale, Tonypandy, CF40 2XX.

Additionally you may, if you wish, find out more about the Freedom of
Information Act & Environmental Information Regulations from the
Information Commissioner at [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/

Yours sincerely

Claire
 
Claire Gummer
Corporate Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Rhondda Cynon Taff C.B.C.
The Pavilions
Cambrian Park
Clydach Vale
Tonypandy
CF40 2XX
 
Tel:  (01443) 424111
Fax: (01443) 424114
Email:  [3][email address]

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Dear Freedomofinformation,

Thank you very much for the data provided. Sadly, the file appears to have been corrupted in transit and I'm unable to open it. Could you please resend?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

Freedomofinformation, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait

Please see attached as requested.

Yours sincerely

Corporate Governance Team
for Director of Legal & Democratic Services

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Dear Freedomofinformation,

Thanks for this. It still came through a little wonky, but Excel seemed to recover the file. Just to check, in the Void column, no properties are listed as Void across any of the data series. Is that the appropriate column to use to identify vacant properties, or is this an error introduced during file recovery?

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait