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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 2370)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by New Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait
Thank you for your request for information about :
subject to section 40(2) on personal data, could you please provide me
with yo...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2020)
Response by Manchester City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait,
I refer to your correspondence dated 8^th February 2021 in which you
raised concerns with the response provided by Manchester City C...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
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Dear Mr Chait
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Our reference: 1895518
Dear Mr. Chait
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 12 April
2021. Your request has bee...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Thank you for your e-mail, requesting that certain information is made available to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000/Environmental Informa...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Great Yarmouth Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for submitting your FOI Request. We can confirm we have received details, the reference number is FOI-2122-14.
Best regards...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your request for information.
Your request will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (o...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Cornwall Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI)/Environmental Information
Regulations (EIR) request - Reference FOI-101005465971. In normal
circumsta...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Tandridge District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait,
We acknowledge receipt of your enquiry and will be dealing with it as
a Freedom of Information request. We aim to provide a full r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Copeland Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait
I acknowledge receipt of your Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Your request is being considered an...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Newcastle upon Tyne City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Acknowledgement: FOI 17751
Thank you for your request for information. We are dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Wrexham County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
Request for information
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 200...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Hart District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin,
Your FOI has been logged and allocated to an officer.
Reference: 21/00824/FOI
Please quote the above in any future correspondenc...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Hounslow Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your below FOI request.
This has been logged under reference number FIR005359 to the service team for a response. Thi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2020)
Response by Hastings Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
I refer to your Freedom of Information request ref: FOIR-295373001.
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding, the dep...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Merthyr Tydfil Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Diolch am eich e-bost.
Hoffem eich hysbysu ei fod yn bosibl na fyddwn yn gallu ymateb i’ch cais oddi fewn i’r fframwaith amser statudol. Mae ein sta...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Information request
Our reference: 5168085
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Internal review request sent to Fenland District Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting internal review.
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Fenland District Coun...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by South Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Please see attached FOI decision notice.
Kindest regards,
South Kesteven District Council
Reference No. FOI-2021-1204-01
Date Re...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Sunderland City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
Your request for information FOI_3564
I am writing to explain that there will be a delay in replying to your
request due to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Caerphilly County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you for your recent FOI / EIR request. Please find attached an acknowledgement for this request.
Ty^ Penallta,
Parc Tredomen,
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Swale Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your email which we received on 12 April 2021. Swale Borough
Council acknowle...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Gavin,
I am writing to acknowledge your information request below. This has been allocated reference number 75987.
The Freedom of Information Ac...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Doncaster Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
Re: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information.
I can confirm your r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2021)
Response by Common Council of the City of London to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Gavin Chait,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for...
This person's 77 annotations
At the height of COVID19, with millions of businesses and livelihoods at risk, the Carmarthenshire Council refuse to publish information that would per...
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...