Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Gavin Chait made this Freedom of Information request to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council as part of a batch sent to 14 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Neath Port Talbot County 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 65% 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
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which was received today. We are generally required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to provide you with a response within 20 working days, which will be on or before 2nd July 2018. If we require any clarification or further details, we will contact you as soon as possible, if this is the case, then the timescale for response specified above may be subject to change.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you
FOI Team
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Mr. Chait,
Further to your Freedom of Information request below, I confirm that I responded to your query on 24th May 2018, please see attached response.
Thank you
FOI Team
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