Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Gavin Chait made this Freedom of Information request to Babergh District Council as part of a batch sent to 17 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Babergh 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 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 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 we intend to update this national series every three 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
Thank you for your recent FOI request, please see the attached letter.
Kind regards,
Data Protection Team
Working for Mid Suffolk District Council and Babergh District Council
Council Offices
131 High Street
Needham Market
Suffolk
IP6 8DL
Tel. 01449 724690
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Dear Gavin Chait
Ref Babergh District Council FOI BF1444 1617
Thank you for your email dated 29 March 2017 requesting information under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You have requested the
following information:
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)
In response to your request, 3 spreadsheets are attached which may be
cross-referenced by the property reference number.
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Please contact me at the above address if
you wish to re-use the information for commercial purposes so that the
appropriate licence can be issued, in some instances a fee will be
payable.
Information you receive continues to be protected by the copyright of the
person, or organisation, from which the information originated. You must
ensure that you gain their permission before reproducing any third party
(non Babergh District Council Copyright) information
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you should write to the Head of Legal Services, Council Offices, Corks
Lane, Hadleigh. IP7 6SJ.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
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Information Commissioner's Office cannot make a decision unless you have
exhausted the complaints procedure provided by Babergh District Council.
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Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
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