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Gavin Chait
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2016
I’m an independent development economist, researching & mapping investment potential for all business types in England & Wales. I compile hereditament & rates data for all non-domestic ratepayers, including vacancies, in all local authorities. These are collated into a single standardised timeseries at https://sqwyre.com.
If you'd like access to the raw data, request a custom query, or support the work I do, please contact me.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 1796)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Request sent to Newcastle upon Tyne City Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
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 u...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q2 2019)
Request sent to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
I am aware that you already publish data https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/info/200307/business_rates_foi_requests/1437/foi_requests_july_2018_to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Eden District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. This is an auto
acknowledgement response. We will be in touch shortly about your request.
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q2 2019)
Request sent to East Northamptonshire District Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
I am aware that you already publish data https://www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk/downloads/200012/business_rates which mostly answers this request,...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Follow up sent to Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thanks very much for your reply. Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the Excel file and I'm unable to open it. Could you please check th...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Monmouthshire County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi Gavin,
Recently there have been some changes to My Monmouthshire, the app
is a way of communicating with the Council by providing an onli...
We had to manually extract the XLSX attachment from this response:
https://files.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complete_non_residential_busines_1584/NDR...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Maldon District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information Request.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to co...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by South Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Freedom of Information Act 2000 Information Request
Our reference: 1588723
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request for information which can be extracted from the
attached spreadsheet.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, th...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Doncaster Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Please find attached the response to your recent freedom of information
request.
Kind Regards
Jill Gaskell
Technical Adjudicati...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 400/2019
Thank you for your email of 3rd July where you requested information about Business Rat...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Message classification: Not Protectively Marked.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find attached the Council’s response to your Freedom of Information Request....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Swale Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
I refer to your email below and your request for Information in relation to Non Domestic Rates.
Please find attached my response with the...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Copeland Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
I acknowledge receipt of your Request for Information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
Your request is being consi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Bury Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi Gavin
I have been asked to forward the report attached in
response to your request below.
Regards
Lynda Smith | Bur...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Hounslow Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Please find attached response to your Freedom of Information Request and
the details you required.
To open the Excel spre...
New builds don't reflect actual tenants in your open commercial rates data
Response by Camden Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Date: 12 July 2019
Ref: FOI12939
Dear Mr Chait
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your rec...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Vale of Glamorgan Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
RFI 19 7597
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request that we received on the
3^rd of July 2019.
Your request...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Follow up sent to Pendle Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you so much for the data provided, however the billing authority reference number, which I use to match your data to the VOA master list, is n...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by North Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Ref No: FOI 19/150
11 July 2019
Dear Mr Chait
We refer to previous correspondence regarding your request for information
relating to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Fenland District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request for information received on 03/07/19 which has
been processed and the information is attached.
If you require any f...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Merthyr Tydfil Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Sir/Madam
RE: Freedom Of Information Act 2000 – INFORMATION Request
We acknowledge your request for information about business rat...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
I am writing to respond to your information request, the details of which
are as follows:
In terms of the Freedom of Informa...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by West Lindsey District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]Edit-Time-Data
Dear Sir,
Please find attached our response to FOI 0395 ICO Case review FS50845850
regarding FOI 0...
This person's 76 annotations
Referred to ICO for review. Note this will be the second referral following my first for Allerdale in late 2016. Allerdale have published continuously...
Note, City of London has recently changed their view on non-publication. From April 2019, and every six months thereafter, they will publish their comp...
Events related to planning of the commission of terrorism
Information not held.
This is specifically linked to this request https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/events_related_to_planning_of_th_2
Oxford continues to ignore Decision Notices by ICO (cf FS50628943 - https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2017/2013577/fs50628943...
Data was sent outside of the WDTK platform and I'll upload it here as well.
Data on the authority's website has been updated to include vacancies.
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Partially successful.
The empty and exemptions sheets, in the data, include a liability start date, and so this does meet the terms of our request.
Billing Authority Reference for Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Partially successful.
@Gareth no idea, especially as the data are public already, just not machine readable...
Refused, because - according to Selby District Council - "terrorists":
"If a list of empty properties were to be disclosed, the properties would be...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Refused.
This one is particularly fascinating. While the authority has only partial data, they indicate only one (1) incident of negligible criminal damage in a...
As with previous requests, the authority does not collect crime data in empty premises as a specific category. They have, however, provided tallies of...
I have no idea what's going on with their data. As you can see from the correspondence, I'm not entirely sure what to make of the problem...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
Save you some time (and, note, they do not record information on incidents of empty property crime):
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting,...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Partially successful.
While the authority does not collect general data on crimes in empty properties, they confirm that there have been no crimes in empty council-owned pro...
The authority does not collect data on crimes in empty commercial properties (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/aggregate_data_on_criminal_activ_4...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
As with most of the queries in this series, the Authority neither has the data requested on incidents of empty property crime, nor do they see any cont...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
Well, this response is especially interesting. On the same day, they upheld their Section 31 refusal to publish empty shop data: https://www.whatdothey...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in business properties
Partially successful.
After further analysis, the bulk of reported crimes have to do with people-on-people crimes, rather than on property. A significant number of incidents...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
As with all these series, they do not have the data, do not collect the data and do not know. Despite this, they feel confident in not publishing empty...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
As with all these series, they do not have the data, do not collect the data and do not know. Despite this, they feel confident in not publishing empty...
As with many of these requests for incidents of crime in commercial premises, Northumbria Police are unable to break out the data without a manual revi...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in business properties
Partially successful.
My estimates weren't too bad. Based on the spreadsheet provided:
Year - Occupied | Unoccupied
2011 - 3,073 | 60
2012 - 3,711 | 123
2013 - 4...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
As with all the requests in this series, the authority does not have or collect data on crimes in empty properties. They also claim they cannot release...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in business properties
Partially successful.
North Wales have provided a list of the incidents of crime, but not the cost. The cost component was considered too expensive to produce.
The tables...
As with other queries in this series, the police authority has no mechanism to identify either of the business premises or whether they are occupied fr...