Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)

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Dear Stockport Metropolitan 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 your local authority’s complete and most-recently updated list of all business (non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

- Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the public VOA database reference)
- Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer)
- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)
- Occupation / Vacancy status
- Date of Occupation / Vacancy
- Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds) and/or categories of reliefs/exemptions granted

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.

NOTE: While FOIs are meant to be requestor blind, these data are actively used by national government and UK universities to inform the economic response to COVID-19. Commercial ratepayer data are always of public interest but, in the midst of a global pandemic and its consequent devastating economic fallout, these data are vital to track business behaviour and guide government and enterprise adaptation to the social impact of COVID-19. Please publish quickly so that organisations trying to support your local authority can do so, and, if you have any difficulties, please contact me so that I may help.

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 (reuse for any and all purposes, including commercial).

I last requested these data three months ago, and this is a request for your latest updated dataset.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Chait

FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your request for information ( FOI 5659990 ) submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which has been given the above-mentioned reference number. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding your request.

Stockport MBC is currently handling a significant amount of ongoing information requests.
We are unable at this present time to confirm whether we will be able to provide the information requested within the statutory time frame.

Please be advised the information returned may not be complete in whole or in part. This is due to government wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19,

There is a large volume of business critical work ongoing, including the possibility of staff in non-critical roles being reallocated to operational roles.

We are currently focussing our efforts toward the protection and safeguarding of high risk groups, the public and our staff during the COVID-19 outbreak, and as such the business area may not be able to provide full information for the completion of the Freedom of the Information request.

I trust, during this difficult time, you will understand this position. If you are dissatisfied, we would advise you re submit your request in 3-6 months time, where we may be in a position to confirm our response or provide further information.

We appreciate the support of the public and media in keeping requests to a manageable amount during this time.”

Stockport Council will respond to your request within 20 working days from the date of receipt.

If there will be a charge for disbursements e.g. photocopying in order to provide the information, we will inform you as soon as possible to see if you wish to proceed; however such charges are usually waived if they amount to less than £10.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Metcalf
Information Governance Officer
I: Stockport Council | 1st Floor South Stopford House | Stockport | SK1 3XE
: 0161 474 4299
0161 474 3315
: [email address]
p:http://www.stockport.gov.uk

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FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Chait,

 

I am writing in response to your request for information (ref FOI
5659990).

 

The relevant Council Service(s) has searched for the requested information
and our response is as follows/attached.

                                  

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 your local
authority’s complete and most-recently updated list of all business
(non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

 

- Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the
public VOA database reference)

- Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer)

- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)

- Occupation / Vacancy status

- Date of Occupation / Vacancy

- Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds) and/or categories of
reliefs/exemptions granted

 

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 see attached spreadsheet for requested information.

 

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request for
information, you are entitled to ask for an internal review; however you
must do so within 40 working days of the date of this response. Any
internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was
not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review,
contact [1][email address] in the first instance.

                          

If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are
entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

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Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

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0303 123 1113

Yours sincerely,

 

Paul Metcalf

Information Governance Officer

+: Stockport Council | 1^st Floor South Stopford House | Stockport | SK1
3XE

( : 0161 474 4299

        0161 474 3315

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