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Gavin Chait
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2016
I’m an independent development economist, researching commercial rates data in England & Wales. My data have helped researchers for COVID lockdowns, Levelling Up, and meanwhile use, business energy consumption, impact of rates on vacancy, and activity clustering. Available via an accessible open data explorer at https://openlocal.uk.
If you'd like access to raw data, a custom query, or support my work, please contact me.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 2800)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2022)
Response by Cherwell District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Freedom of Information Request – Reference no.: 2022081
Thank you for your request for information received on 11 November 202...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2022)
Response by West Berkshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Following your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this
information is now available and is published on our website....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by West Berkshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Following your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this
information is now available and is published on our website....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by North Yorkshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request dated 16/05/2023.
We can confirm that the council holds this informatio...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1 2023)
Response by Middlesbrough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST - REF NO: 018935
I am writing to confirm that Middlesbrough Council has now completed its search for t...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1 2023)
Response by Westmorland and Furness Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good afternoon Mr Chait,
Further to your email below, please see attached the data set you are
attempting to access which should hopefully work....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Spelthorne Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Further to your Freedom of Information request concerning the Occupation/Vacancy status of non-domestic properties within this authority's borough.
At...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1 2023)
Response by Breckland District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Chait
Please take this as confirmation that your FOI has been received.
We will provide our response within 20 work...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Lewisham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 18472357
Thank you for your request fo...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Newcastle upon Tyne City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Thank you for your freedom of information request to Newcastle City
Council reference 20553.
Please find attached the details tak...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Pembrokeshire County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
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 respons...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1 2023)
Response by Wakefield City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information
I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find attached the Council’s response to your Freedom of Information Request.
Regards
Information and Feedback Team
South Tynes...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Dear Mr Chait
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Wrexham County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act, please find at...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by West Lancashire Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Message classification: OFFICIAL.
Ref 2023/44
Dear Mr Gavin,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
Thank you for your email of 2...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Bury Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Requestor
Please find attached the response to your FOI Request.
Regards
Business and Executive Support Team
Department of Corporate C...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.
Kind regards
Information Governance Officer
Redcar & Cleveland Borough...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 10014678
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Dear Gavin Chait
Thank...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Hastings Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request ref: FOIR-510216474.
Please find attached our response.
Yours sin...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by North Yorkshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Gavin Chait
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request dated 24/04/2023.
I can confirm that the council holds this information,...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Request - National Non-Domestic Rates Accounts
RFI-6529-23
Further to your request for information r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by St Albans District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Partially successful.
Customer, Business & Corporate Support
Our Ref: 000007395
Please ask for: FOI Coordinator
Direct Dial: (01727) 819209
e-mail address: [St Alban...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2023)
Response by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please see the attachment regarding your requested information.
Your sincerely
Oladele Olaniyan
DISCLAIMER
This email...
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...