Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data

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Dear Tamworth Borough Council,

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, 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 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 this as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence.

We last requested this data more than six months ago, and this is a request for an updated and current dataset.

I'm sure you get many requests for business rates and we intend to update this national series every six months. Could we request that - as more than 30% of local authorities already do - you update and release this dataset via a dedicated page on your local authority website or on an open data service. You should find that this reduces the time and cost of this request process.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Chait

Freedom of Information, Tamworth Borough Council

Nicola Hesketh

Project and Information Co Ordinator

 

Our Ref: FOI4221/NH/01

Please ask for: Nicola Hesketh

Direct dial: 01827 709 587

E-mail: [Tamworth Borough Council request email]

7^th November 2016

Dear Gavin Chait

 

Freedom of Information Act – Information Reasonably Accessible

 

Thank you for your email that we received on 7/11/2016 where you
requested information regarding Business rates.

 

This information is considered already publicly available either by
searching or website using the A-Z or search box, or where there is
information requested on a regular basis this may be found on our
Disclosure Log: [1]http://www.tamworth.gov.uk/disclosure-log.

 

To search on our website please go to [2]www.tamworth.gov.uk

 

Or to our webpage that has links to the Disclosure Log at

[3]http://www.tamworth.gov.uk/freedom-infor...

 

o For Contract information and any other relevant information regarding
the organisation’s spending please go to
[4]http://www.tamworth.gov.uk/spending-summ...
o NNDR Business Rates, additional information around businesses can be
found at [5]https://www.gov.uk/correct-your-business... using the
BA reference in our published spreadsheets
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o ‘Bedroom Tax’ spare room subsidies and related queries
o Parking Fines, PCN’s
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o Public registers, lists and licences
o Planning, additional information regarding planning and planning
applications can be found within this section of our website
[6]http://www.tamworth.gov.uk/planning

 

Therefore there will be no need to place future repeat requests of a
similar nature under the Freedom of Information Act as this will be exempt
under Section 21 of the Act, additionally there is no requirement to
acknowledge or treat such as a valid request.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your
original letter and should be addressed to:

 

Project and Information Co Ordinator,

Tamworth Borough Council,

Marmion House,

Lichfield Street,

Tamworth,

B79 7BZ

 

Yours Sincerely

 

Nicola Hesketh

Project and Information Co Ordinator

 

 

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