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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 1713)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Isle of Wight Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
I refer to your request for information received by the Isle of Wight on
3^rd May.
The information is available in CSV form...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Epping Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your email.
I have forwarded your email onto our Debt Recovery Manager, hopefully I
will be able to send you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Our business services team have confirmed these are all occupied accounts.
Kind regards
Angelica Popa
Information Governance and Elec...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1 2019)
Response by Basildon Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
This email is an acknowledgement of your Legal
Information Request submitted on 13/05/2019. A notification will be sent
to your email address by 10/0...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Gwynedd Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Rhyddid Gwybodaeth / Freedom of Information
Dear Gavin Chait,
Freedom of Information (ref 12)
Thank you for your recent request. Please see attac...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Test Valley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Further to your recent Freedom of Information request (your original request is at the bottom of this e mail).
We confirm the Coun...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Harborough District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Requestor.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your request for information received by the Counci...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
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.
If you have any...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Ceredigion Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
I refer to your Freedom of Information dated 3^rd April 2019. Please
accept our sincere apologies for the delay in providing...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by North Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your email requesting an internal review following our
response to your Freedom of Information request i.e. FOI Request...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by West Lindsey District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]Edit-Time-Data
Dear Sir
Thank you for your request for internal review received on 10/05/2019.
Your request is now b...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Stroud District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thanks for the email.
We have reviewed our decision and moving forward empty property data will now be published along with the data relating to non-d...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Follow up sent to Lincoln City Council by Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Thank you for the data provided, however, in terms of our original request, could you include the occupation status of each property? As mentioned,...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Section 31, Q1-2019)
Response by Corby Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir
Please find attached response to your recent request for information.
Kind Regards
Julie Griffiths | Administration Officer | Corby B...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Chait,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION F2019.04.5796
Thank you for your e-mail of 4^th April 2019, requesting details of the
ratepayers, al...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by South Hams District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
FOI Request - Ref: 1093115
Thank you for your request for information on 24/04/2019 08:43:04.
I can confirm that the Council holds...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Our reference: 1489442
Dear Mr. Chait
Thank you for your request for information received on 3 April 2019.
Please find attached our respon...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Pembrokeshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
If you have received this email in error, please notify us by telephone on
01437 764551 and delete it from your computer immediately. Os ydych chi
we...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 1191397
Your reference: [FOI #565758 email]
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by North Warwickshire Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
I hope this answers your query.
“If you would like a review of the response to your request or if you have any complaints about the information suppl...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
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...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Gavin Chait
[FOI #565760 email]
2^nd May 2019
Our Ref: A1323440
Dear Gavin,
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Melton Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find response to your enquiry attached.
Regards
Rebecca Mann
Information and Complaints Officer
Melton Bor...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Merthyr Tydfil Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam
RE: Freedom Of Information Act 2000 – INFORMATION Request
We have considered your request and provide the information attached....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Sedgemoor District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request.
Please find attached the information you require.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you can ask for a review,...
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...