Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Gavin Chait made this Freedom of Information request to Warwick District Council as part of a batch sent to 11 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Warwick District 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
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your request for information which I acknowledge was
received by the District Council on 7 November 2016.
Your request is currently being considered. If the District Council is
able to provide you with the information you have requested, then under
the Freedom of Information Act you are entitled to receive it within 20
working days.
For your information, the FOI Act defines a number of exemptions which may
prevent release of some or all of the information you have requested. The
District Council will assess your information request in light of the
exemptions. If exemptions do apply, then the District Council may decide
not to release all, or part, of the information you have requested. You
will be informed if this is the case.
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Kind regards
Alan Robbins
Corporate Support Team Assistant
Warwick District Council
Riverside House
Milverton Hill
Royal Leamington Spa
CV32 5HZ
01926 456123
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Mr Chait
Please find attached, as requested, a full set of data from the NNDR database of Warwick District Council.
Regards
Paul
Paul Town
Principal Revenues Officer
Revenues - Finance
Warwick District Council
t: 01926 456073
e: [email address]
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