October FOI Request
Dear Hounslow Borough Council,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
In accordance with the provisions specified within the above Act I hereby request the following information.
All information requested relates to Business Rates.
This request for information falls within the parameters of the Act but if you require clarification on any of the points above or should you wish to discuss this further then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Required Information;- A list of all live business rates accounts with a 2017 list Rateable Value.
• Property Reference Number (also known as Billing Authority Reference Number) of the property on which the charge is made. Please note that this is not the Rate Demand or Rate Account Number.
• Current rateable value
• Account holder name
• Property address
• The billing address (where different to the property address), the contact telephone number and email address
• The date the current ratepayer became liable for the business rates – we do not require any historical account liability dates only the current ratepayers liability start date
• whether a property is empty or occupied
• Where a property is currently empty please provide the date the ratepayer became liable for empty rates
• Where there is an exemption on the account please provide the start and end date and type of exemption applied (e.g. listed building)
• Where there is a relief on the account please provide the date it was applied and the type of relief (e.g. Retail Discount)
• We do not require any personal information or sole traders.
Please provide the information in an electronic, spreadsheet format ideally excel. The Act requires that a response be provided within a period of 20 working days from the date hereof.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Roberts
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[1]London Borough of Hounslow
15-Oct-2020
Dear Richard Roberts,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. The reference number
is FIR004464.
The Council aims to respond to your request within 20 working days.
However due to the current COVID-19 virus situation, there may be delays
in responding to you as the council may need to adapt our usual approach
during this extraordinary period.
We will, where at all possible, seek to comply with the timescales but
as this is an unprecedented situation, we hope you will understand that
it may not be possible.
Please use the reference number above for all future communication about
this case. You will be able to track the progress of this case by
logging into your My Hounslow Account.
Further information can be found on our website at the following link:
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Kind regards,
Customer Relations
London Borough of Hounslow
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Dear Mr Roberts,
Thank you for your below FOI request.
This has been logged under reference number FIR004464 to the service team for a response. This response will follow to you within the 20 working day deadline.
• For future reference, you are now able to use the online form to make further Freedom of Information Requests. This is our preferred method, because this form helps us to capture all of the information needed to respond to your request quickly.
Kind Regards,
Joe Smith | Customer Relations Officer
2nd Floor, Hounslow House
London Borough of Hounslow
Office: 020 8583 5211
www.hounslow.gov.uk
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Dear Mr Richard Roberts
Please find attached response to your Freedom of Information Request and
the details you required.
To open the Excel spreadsheet please use the following password:
RobertFOI161020
Kind regards.
Carol Lovell | Corporate Services Contract Client Officer
Client Unit, Procurement and Contracts
London Borough of Hounslow
3rd Floor, Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow, TW3 3EB
020 8583 2697
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