Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties

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Dear Northampton Borough Council,

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, could you please provide me with the following information for each of the last five years (i.e. 2011 to 2015):

- Total number of business premises in your local authority
- Total number of empty business premises in your local authority
- Total number of empty business premises affected by each of (as a direct consequence of their being empty):
+ Criminal activity
+ Squatting
+ Damage
- Where possible, total value in GBP of the theft or damage to empty business premises by each of(as a direct consequence of their being empty):
+ Criminal activity
+ Squatting
+ Damage

If the value in GBP is not known, then please provide the balance of data requested.

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.

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.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Chait

Requests, Northampton Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait

With regard to the attached FOI request. Please can you clarify if you are seeking information on Council owned business premises?

Your request has been put on hold until clarification has been received.

Regards

Judy Goodman
Borough Secretary's
Northampton Borough Council
The Guildhall
Northampton
NN1 1DE
Tel 01604 837409

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Northampton Borough Council, The Guildhall, Northampton, United Kingdom, NN1 1DE
+44 (0)300 330 7000
www.northampton.gov.uk

Dear Requests,

Thank you for your query. I am looking for details on all commercial premises, whether owned by the council or not. These would typically be called NNDR, or non-domestic rated properties .

Please let me know if this is sufficient clarity.

Yours sincerely,

Gavin Chait

Requests, Northampton Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait

Please find attached the Council's response to your request for information dated 17th March 2016 and our subsequent clarification.

Regards

Judy Goodman
Borough Secretary's
Northampton Borough Council
The Guildhall
Northampton
NN1 1DE
Tel 01604 837409

Please note that the contents of this e-mail, including any attachments thereto, may contain information which is confidential or privileged, and which is solely for the use of the recipient named above. The information contained in this e-mail, and in your reply, may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or other legislation, and its confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.

Northampton Borough Council, The Guildhall, Northampton, United Kingdom, NN1 1DE
+44 (0)300 330 7000
www.northampton.gov.uk

Gavin Chait left an annotation ()

While the authority does not collect general data on crimes in empty properties, they confirm that there have been no crimes in empty council-owned properties.