Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Dear Darlington 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 71% 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
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your request for information, received 11th October 2019.
We are processing your request in accordance with our Freedom of
Information and Environmental Information Request Procedure, which you can
find on our [2]website.
If we need more information in order to process your request, we will
contact you in due course.
You can expect a full response to your request within 20 working days.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Seddon
Complaints & Information Governance Assistant
(01325) 406777
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2. https://www.darlington.gov.uk/your-counc...
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Dear Mr Chait
Request reference: DBC-2452-19
Please find attached the Council's response to your recent request for
information.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Seddon
Complaints & Information Governance Assistant
(01325) 406777
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Dear Ms Seddon,
Thanks for following up regarding the request for the ‘actual annual rates charged’ field.
I mention in my request that, if this is not possible, would you be able to provide the value of the reliefs and/or exemptions provided and I can calculate an approximation of the ‘actual annual rates charged’?
If that is not possible, then please provide the balance of information as Darlington Borough Council has provided for the last few years (ref: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/darl...).
Yours faithfully,
Gavin Chait
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your email received on 4th November 2019. You requested:
- 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.
The Council refused your request on the basis that it was unable to
provide this information within the cost limit. Apologies if we have
misunderstood your request, however your original request did not provide
an alternative to 'actual annual rates'. Section 8 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 provides that for a request to be valid it must
describe the information requested, which we consider we did in this case.
I would be happy to log a further request for this information should you
wish to resubmit it without 'actual annual rates', or alternatively if you
remain dissatisfied with the Council’s handling of your request, you do
have the right to request an internal review.
Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Seddon
Complaints and Information Governance Assistant
Town Hall
Darlington
DL1 5QT
01325 406777
Dear Ms Seddon,
OK, then let me clarify the request as follows. 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 either of “Occupation / Vacancy” status, or "Actual annual rates charged", are not available, please provide the Exemptions and / or Reliefs that a particular property may be receiving, either in terms of the descriptions of these Exemptions / Reliefs, or the values received, or both.
If nothing else, please provide the same fields as you have provided quarterly since 2016 (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/darl...).
I hope that this clarifies my request?
Yours sincerely,
Gavin Chait
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Dear Mr Chait
Request reference: DBC-2837-19
Please find attached the Council's response to your refined request for
information.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Seddon
Complaints & Information Governance Assistant
(01325) 406777
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