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Gavin Chait
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2016
I’m an independent development economist, researching & mapping commercial investment potential for all business types across England & Wales. Critical to my work are the hereditament data for every non-domestic ratepayer, including vacancies, in all local authorities. These are collated into a single standardised timeseries at https://pikhaya.com.
If you'd like access to the data, or to support the work I do, please contact me.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 1404)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2018)
Response by Conwy County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good Morning,
Please find attached the updated NNDR Full list as requested. I trust
that this information is sufficient for your records, howev...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2018)
Internal review request sent to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting internal review.
Thank you for your response.
If I have this clear, Stockport Council is withdrawing the claim that releasing void data would result in "fraudulent...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Conwy County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
We advise that your request is still in progress and is being dealt with by our service...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Uttlesford District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information attached
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2018)
Response by Pendle Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Please find attached the information you requested.
Sarah Waterworth
Committee Administrator
Tel No. Tue/Wed/Thu/ 01282 661654 Mon/Fri...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Haringey Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/7454218
Thank you for your request for information received on 04 June 2018.
Ple...
Total number, and total value, of commercial rates refunds
Response by Westminster City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Information request
Our reference: 7078336
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank y...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Brentwood Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Many thanks for your FOI request.
Please see information requested attached.
I hope this has helped answer your enquiry. However, if you a...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Bury Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Please find attached
Regards
Bury Council
From: [1][email address]
[[2]mailto:[email address]]
Sent: 05 July 2018 10:48...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Hastings Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Chait
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request ref: FOI-77600057,
please accept my apologies for the slight delay in respondi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Mendip District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please see a corrected version of the requested information, attached.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Sugg
Technical & Administrative Officer (I...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 4 June
2018.
Your request
Complete Non-Residential / Business P...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2018)
Response by East Northamptonshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Thank you for your recent request for information concerning empty
properties.
Your request reference is 14536 and has be...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Waverley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
I am writing in response for your request for information regarding
business rates.
I can confirm the Council holds the atta...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi Gavin,
Please find attached the spreadsheets you require with the prn.
Thanks,
Karen
Karen Williams - Resources...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
This email was classified as : OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Chait,
Request reference number: DBC-0609-18
Please find attached the Council’s r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by West Lancashire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Please find attached the information with the property reference numbers
populated on the relief and exemption tabs as requested....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Swindon Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
[1]Swindon Borough Council
Dear Gavin Chait,
Case reference number: FOI000613
On 09/07/2018 an update to your case was recorded on the timeline. ...
The Excel spreadsheet in the response to this request is corrupted. Here is a clean version.
http://files.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complete_non_resi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Liverpool City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please see attached response to your FOI Request as submitted to Liverpool
City Council.
Regards
Information Team...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q2 2018)
Response by Rossendale Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Good Morning
Further to your request for information.
Due to the new GDPR regulations coming into place in May 2018, Rossendale
Borough Co...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Lincoln City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
I refer to your request for information received on 4 June 201...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Arun District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your reply back regarding your Information Request
Jun18_08.
REQUEST:
Thank you so much...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by North Norfolk District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request 010694 received on...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Kingston upon Thames Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Further to your recent Freedom of Information request please find attached
my response.
Should you require any further assi...
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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...
As with other requests in this series, the only way that Greater Manchester Police would be able to assess whether the crimes involve empty properties...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
As with other requests in this series, the authority does not collect or hold data on crime in empty properties. Despite this, they claim releasing dat...