Business Rates
Dear Hull City Council,
Please can you provide me with the following information under the
Freedom Of Information Act 2000:-
(a) List all current non-domestic properties and their addresses
with a rateable value above £9000
(b) The company name for each properties as above
Yours faithfully,
claire lumsden
Dear Ms Lumsden,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request - 000038/15
We acknowledge receipt of your information request received on 7 January
2015 which is being processed according to the Freedom of Information Act
(2000).
The legislation allows us 20 working days to respond which takes us to 4
February 2015. There are some circumstances under which this deadline may
be extended legally but we will inform you as soon as we know if these
apply.
Questions
Please can you provide me with the following information under the Freedom
Of Information Act 2000:-
(a) List all current non-domestic properties and their addresses with a
rateable value above £9000
(b) The company name for each properties as above
Should you wish to complain about our response in any way this must
initially be done by e-mailing [1][Hull City Council request email] or by
contacting us at The Information Governance Team, The Guildhall, Alfred
Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review then you
may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the
government body established to enforce the legislation. Their details are
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, telephone 01625
545700, Email: [2][email address], web site
[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.
The Council’s Freedom of Information Policy, which includes the charging
policy, is available on request and from the web site
[4]www.hullcc.gov.uk. Also available is a booklet on ‘Accessing
Information from Hull City Council’ which explains how to request
information and your rights (according to the Data Protection Act 1998 and
The Freedom of Information Act 2000).
Yours sincerely,
Information Governance Team
Town Clerk's Service
Resources Directorate
Hull City Council
Tel: 01482 300300
[5]Hull - UK City of Culture 2017
Dear Ms Lumsden
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request - 000038/15
With regard to your Freedom of Information request received on 7 January
2015, please find our response attached and below.
Questions
(a) List all current non-domestic properties and their addresses with a
rateable value above £9000
(b) The company name for each properties as above
In accordance with Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act, the
Council is required to inform you that some of the information on the
attached document has not been provided and has been withheld due to the
following exemptions under the Act. Where these exemptions have been used
the information has been removed and the appropriate exemption entered in
its place.
Section 31 - Law Enforcement
It is considered that this exemption under Section 31 of the Act applies
to some of the information therefore the details of deceased persons and
locations of police/mobile masts have been withheld on the attached
spreadsheet. Section 31 (1) (a) is designed to cover all aspects of the
prevention and detection of crime.
We have considered the public interest in regard to the release of the
exempted information and in so doing have weighed the benefits that
disclosure would provide in respect of openness and accountability against
the harm and prejudice which could be caused to each company in release of
this information. We believe that to release these details may lead to
criminal activity and we therefore believe in this case, there is not
enough justification to release the information and the public interest in
with holding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosure.
Section 40 - Personal Information
It is considered that this exemption under Section 40(2) of the Act
applies, namely that some of the information is personal information and
all personal details are protected under the Data Protection Act 1998
legislation. The Council cannot disclose personal information where to do
so would breach any of the data protection principles.
In this case, we consider that to release the names of external third
parties cannot be justified and consent would not be given therefore
disclosure would breach the rights of these individuals under the Act.
Although information supplied in response to your request may be in an
Excel format please feel free to contact us should you wish the
information to be supplied in an alternative more readable/reusable
format.
We hope that you will be satisfied with our response and should you
require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact
us.
Should you wish to complain about our response in any way this must
initially be done by e-mailing [1][Hull City Council request email] or by
contacting us at The Information Governance Team, The Guildhall, Alfred
Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review then you
may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the
government body established to enforce the legislation. Their details are
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, telephone 01625
545700, Email: [2][email address], web site
[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.
The Council’s Freedom of Information Policy, which includes the charging
policy, is available on request and from the web site
[4]www.hullcc.gov.uk. Also available is a booklet on ‘Accessing
Information from Hull City Council’ which explains how to request
information and your rights (according to the Data Protection Act 1998 and
The Freedom of Information Act 2000).
Please note that this information may be subject to copyright and supply
of the information to you under the Freedom of Information Act does not
confer an automatic right to re-use it in a way that would infringe
copyright. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any
non-commercial research or private study you are carrying out and for
purposes of news reporting.
Any information we provide to you under the Freedom of Information Act
will not confer an automatic right to re-use that information, for example
to publish it. If you wish to re-use the information that we provide and
you do not specify this in your initial application for information then
you must make a further request for its re-use as per the Re-Use of Public
Sector Information Regulations 2005 www.opsi.gov.uk - This will not affect
your initial information request.
Yours sincerely
Information Governance Officer
Town Clerk's Service
Resources Directorate
Hull City Council
Tel: 01482 300300
[5]Hull - UK City of Culture 2017
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