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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 2020)
Extracted the attachment to https://files.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complete_non_residential_busines_1849/Freedom%20of%20Information%20015186.xlsx
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Waverley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Chait,
Thank you for your request for information below.
This is information that the Council does intend to publish in the next
few month...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Fareham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
In respect of your Freedom of Information request, please find attached
our response for your information.
Please accept ou...
Request for review of refusal to publish Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Response by South Norfolk District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
SUBJECT: PLEASE READ: acknowledgement / response to your request
Coronavirus: Due to the unprecedented challenges we are facing during the
c...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Follow up sent to Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Thanks for the data. Unfortunately, something seems to have happened to the file in transit and I'm unable to open it (I get an error that the file...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Pendle Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Chait.
I write in respect of your request for an internal review of the council's decision to refuse to release the information you have reque...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
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 (Q1 2020)
Response by Ealing Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Please find attached response to your recent request.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you can...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by North Warwickshire Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good Afternoon,
Please find spreadsheet attached in response to your freedom of information request.
I hope this answers your query.
“If you would...
Request for Review on refusal to publish Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
Response by Stafford Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Thank you for forwarding your e-mail to the Stafford Borough Council
Freedom of Information inbox.
Your request will be distributed to the relev...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Hastings Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Chait
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your Freedom of Information request ref: FOIR-193946350 Subject: Non residenti...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Gwynedd Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Freedom of Information (ref T19)
Thank you for your recent request.
Your request has been considered and it has been decided that...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Please find the requested report attached. An additional row has been added to the original extract.
Kind regards
Angelica Popa
Infor...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Tandridge District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Request re 2020/Foi/1281
A copy of the information is enclosed.
I hope that this information is of assistance,...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Bromley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Headers are now entered, sorry that they were not entered before.
Regards
John Nightingale
Head of Revenues and Benefits
Finance Servi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by St Albans District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
CORPORATE SERVICES
Head of Service - Simonne De Vall
Our Ref: 000004331
Please ask for: FOI Coordinator
Direct Dial: (01727) 819209
e-mail add...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear sir,
Please find attached the response to your request for an internal review.
Your faithfully
Angela Harwood
Lawyer
Room 120
1st...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Teignbridge District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Many apologies for
the delay in replying.
Please see our latest report attac...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Dear Mr Chait
P...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Wrexham County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Chait
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your recent request for information, I am writin...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your freedom of information request received on 9th April, please see our response in the attached document.
Your righ...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Merthyr Tydfil Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Dear Sirs
RE: Freedom Of Information Act 2000 – INFORMATION Request
Following our acknowledgement ema...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Pembrokeshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Carmarthenshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr. Chait
I refer to your request for information, which was received on 9th April, 2020 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2020)
Response by Broxtowe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
Further to your request, please see the attached document for a response.
I hope that this answers your enquiry. However, please contact...
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...