List of vacant commercial properties in Aberdeen

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Dear Aberdeen City Council,

Could you please provide a list of all currently empty commercial properties within the Council area detailing:
- Address
- Description (Office, Shop, Warehouse etc)
- Rateable value
- Name of the owner, organisation or company
- Length of time the properties have been empty.

Thank you!

Yours faithfully,

Mark Smith

Foi Enquiries, Aberdeen City Council

Dear Mr Smith,

Information enquiry reference EIR-17-0124

Thank you for your email which we received on 19 January 2017.

The scheduled date for our response to your request for information is on or before 16 February 2017.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any queries in the meantime.

Yours sincerely,

Information Compliance Team
Communications and Promotion
Office of Chief Executive
Aberdeen City Council
Room 1-24
Town House
Broad Street
ABERDEEN AB10 1AQ

[Aberdeen City Council request email]
01224 523827/523602

Tel 03000 200 292

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www.aberdeencity.gov.uk

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Foi Enquiries, Aberdeen City Council

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Dear Mr Smith,

 

Thank you for your information request of 19 January 2017.  Aberdeen City
Council (ACC) has completed the necessary search for the information
requested.

 

Could you please provide a list of all currently empty commercial
properties within the Council area detailing:

-              Address

-              Description (Office, Shop, Warehouse etc)

-              Rateable value

-              Name of the owner, organisation or company

-              Length of time the properties have been empty.

 

We wish to advise you that ACC regularly publishes information on business
rates at the following link:
[1]http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/business_....

 

This information is published and updated every 12 weeks and can be found
in the ‘All Rates Liabilities – including relief’ report.

 

As information on currently empty commercial properties within the Council
area is otherwise accessible on ACC’s website at the link copied above, it
is exempt from disclosure.  In order to comply with its obligations under
the terms of Section 16 of the FOISA, ACC hereby gives notice that we are
refusing your request under the terms of Section 25(1) in conjunction with
Section 25(3) - Information Otherwise Accessible - of the FOISA.

 

We hope this helps with your request.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Grant Webster

Information Compliance Officer

 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE HANDLING OF YOUR REQUEST

 

As the information which you requested is environmental information, as
defined under Regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Information (Scotland)
Regulations 2004 (the EIRs), ACC considered that it was exempt from
release through FOISA, and must therefore give you notice that we are
refusing  your request under Section 39(2) of FOISA (Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002).  However, you have a separate right to
access the information which you have requested under Regulation 5 of the
EIRs, under which ACC has handled your request. Please refer to the
attached PDF for more information about your rights under the EIRs.

 

 

Information Compliance Team
Communications and Promotion
Office of Chief Executive
Aberdeen City Council
Room 1-24
Town House
Broad Street
ABERDEEN AB10 1AQ

[2][Aberdeen City Council request email]
01224 523827/523602

Tel 03000 200 292

 

*03000 numbers are free to call if you have ‘free minutes’ included in
your mobile call plan.

Calls from BT landlines will be charged at the local call rate of 10.24p
per minute (the same as 01224s).

[3]www.aberdeencity.gov.uk

 

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Dear Foi Enquiries,

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I need.
The only thing - is this document available in Excel format? It is very difficult to work with PDF version. You could attach it to this response, or make a link on Council website - that would be great.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Smith