Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)

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Dear Uttlesford District 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

auto-response@uttlesford.gov.uk, Uttlesford District Council

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Doug Melvin, Uttlesford District Council

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Good morning Gavin,

 

I am pleased to confirm that the information you requested has now been
published on our website. You are correct that we do get many foi requests
for business rates and I appreciate your offer to recommend for us to
consider. I am new to the authority and wanted to get this up and running
as quickly as possible. If you have any comments about the way it is set
out on our website or other ways to deal with requests I would be very
grateful.  

 

The one dataset we will not be publishing is credits and I can send you
chapter and verse on this decision should you require it.

 

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This information will be updated every three months. The next data set
will be @ 1 November 2019. Please feel free to contact me direct if you
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Kind regards

 

 

Doug Melvin

Revenues Income Team Leader

 

Uttlesford District Council

Council Offices

London Road

Saffron Walden

Essex. CB11 4ER

 

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