Retail Premises Relief
Dear Kirklees Borough Council,
Please provide a complete list of addresses and rateable values of
Commercial properties with a rateable value above £2,000 and below
£50,000 who are eligible for,but not currently receiving, Retail
Rate Relief in an Excel or CSV Spreadsheet.
Please also include the Property Description, rateable value and
name of ratepayer.
Yours faithfully,
David Gillard
Dear Mr Gillard,
I confirm receipt of your information request and that I am looking into this.
I will respond to you in due course.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
e: [email address]
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Dear Mr Gillard
I am writing in reply to your recent request for information made under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You asked for details of:
“Please provide a complete list of addresses and rateable values of
Commercial properties with a rateable value above £2,000 and below £50,000
who are eligible for, but not currently receiving, Retail Rate Relief in
an Excel or CSV Spreadsheet. Please also include the Property Description,
rateable value and name of ratepayer.”
I have considered your request under the Act and can confirm that the
authority does not hold the information you have asked for.
The Council can only make a determination as to the eligibility of retail
rate relief once the rate payer has made an application and this has been
assessed by a processor. At this point the relief would be awarded or a
refusal letter sent. Prior to this point the Council would not know who is
eligible and who is not.
If you are not content with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Requests for internal reviews should
be submitted within 2 months of the date of receipt of the response to
your original request and should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer,
Civic Centre I, PO Box 1274, Huddersfield HD1 2WZ. Alternatively, you can
send an email to: [1][email address].
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right
under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt
with in accordance with the requirements of the Act. The Information
Commissioner’s website is at [2]www.ico.org.uk and gives more information
about the role and duties of the Commissioner. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
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Dear Freedom Info,
Could you please send a list of those properties that ARE currently in receipt of Retail Premises Relief in an Excel or .csv
spreadsheet.
Yours sincerely,
David Gillard
Dear Mr Gillard
I confirm receipt of your information request and that I am looking into this.
I will respond to you in due course.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
e: [email address]
This email and any attachments are confidential. If you have received it in error - notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system, and do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way. Kirklees Council monitors all emails sent or received.
Dear Mr Gillard
I am writing in reply to your recent request for information made under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You asked for details of:
“Could you please send a list of those properties that ARE currently in
receipt of Retail Premises Relief in an Excel or .csv spreadsheet”
I have considered your request under the Act and can provide some of the
information you have asked for. Please find attached a spreadsheet which
shows the hereditaments which are currently in receipt of retail rate
relief where the liable party is not a natural person.
Where the liable party is a natural person, the Council does hold the
information but considers it exempt from the Act as it constitutes
personal data.
Section 40 of the Act provides that:
(1) Any information to which a request for information relates is exempt
information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the
data subject.
(2) Any information to which a request for information relates is also
exempt information if—
(a) it constitutes personal data which do not fall within subsection (1),
and
(b) either the first or the second condition below is satisfied.
(3) The first condition is—
(a) in a case where the information falls within any of paragraphs (a) to
(d) of the definition of “data” in section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act
1998, that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public
otherwise than under this Act would contravene—
(i) any of the data protection principles, or
(ii) section 10 of that Act (right to prevent processing likely to cause
damage or distress), and
(b) in any other case, that the disclosure of the information to a member
of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene any of the
data protection principles if the exemptions in section 33A(1) of the Data
Protection Act 1998 (which relate to manual data held by public
authorities) were disregarded.
(4) The second condition is that by virtue of any provision of Part IV of
the Data Protection Act 1998 the information is exempt from section
7(1)(c) of that Act (data subject’s right of access to personal data).
(5) The duty to confirm or deny—
(a) does not arise in relation to information which is (or if it were held
by the public authority would be) exempt information by virtue of
subsection (1), and
(b) does not arise in relation to other information if or to the extent
that either—
(i) the giving to a member of the public of the confirmation or denial
that would have to be given to comply with section 1(1)(a) would (apart
from this Act) contravene any of the data protection principles or section
10 of the Data Protection Act 1998 or would do so if the exemptions in
section 33A(1) of that Act were disregarded, or
(ii) by virtue of any provision of Part IV of the Data Protection Act 1998
the information is exempt from section 7(1)(a) of that Act (data subject’s
right to be informed whether personal data being processed).
(6) In determining for the purposes of this section whether anything done
before 24th October 2007 would contravene any of the data protection
principles, the exemptions in Part III of Schedule 8 to the Data
Protection Act 1998 shall be disregarded.
(7) In this section—
“the data protection principles” means the principles set out in Part I of
Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 1998, as read subject to Part II of
that Schedule and section 27(1) of that Act;
“data subject” has the same meaning as in section 1(1) of that Act;
“personal data” has the same meaning as in section 1(1) of that Act.
In decision notice FS 50072180 the Information Commissioner found that the
tax liabilities of natural persons constituted personal data as their tax
liabilities and personal affairs could not be separated. Therefore this
part of the request is refused.
If you are not content with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Requests for internal reviews should
be submitted within 2 months of the date of receipt of the response to
your original request and should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer,
Civic Centre I, PO Box 1274, Huddersfield HD1 2WZ. Alternatively, you can
send an email to: [1][email address] .
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right
under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt
with in accordance with the requirements of the Act. The Information
Commissioner’s website is at [2]www.ico.org.uk and gives more information
about the role and duties of the Commissioner. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
Legal & Governance
Email: [3][email address]
Telephone: 01484 221000
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