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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 2520)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Wrexham County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
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 2022)
Response by St Albans District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Customer, Business & Corporate Support
Our Ref: 000006279
Please ask for: FOI Coordinator
Direct Dial: (01727) 819209
e-mail address: [St Alban...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by New Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait,
Please find attached the information requested.
Should you have any queries please contact me,
Regards
Ryan
Ryan Stevens
Service Ma...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Sunderland City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please see attached response to your recent freedom of information
request.
Kind regards
Sharon
Sharon Holde...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Doncaster Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request for information about
business rates properties.
Please find attached the inf...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by South Ribble Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dr Mr Chait,
I am writing in response to your request for information under the terms
of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please find...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Pembrokeshire County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
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 2022)
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, plea...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 7670281
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Ealing Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Please find attached response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling o...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Woking Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request.
Our Reference (8630-14323762).
Further to your request for information dated 1...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Oadby and Wigston Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
*** Please ensure that you read in full the important notes below before
reviewing this response. ***
Let us know how we did today – cli...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information request dated 11
April 2022, reference FOI77066.
You asked for t...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
OFFICIAL
Ref 857455
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your freedom of information request received on 11th April, please see our response in the attache...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Thank you for your request for information regarding ‘Business Property Rates Data’ (reference number 08421); Please see our response attac...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Bury Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi
I have been asked to forward the response to your FOI request, please see attached.
Regards
Lynda Smith
Business Support Officer
Department of C...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request for information which can be extracted from the attached spreadsheet.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, then you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 4064409
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Dear Gavin Chait
Thank y...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Broxbourne Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
[1]Broxbourne Borough Council
Broxbourne Borough Council have closed your case BFR001774 due to the
following reason:
"Response sent.
Kind regard...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
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 19060.
Please find attached the det...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Birmingham City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 39298043
Your reference: [FOI #852823 email]
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by West Lancashire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Ref No: 2022/26
Date : 20 April 2022
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
Thank you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
Response by Tandridge District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Freedom of Information Request Ref 00128264.
Please find attached the requested information, which we hope is of
a...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2022)
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 (Q1 2022)
Response by Hart District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
Further to your Freedom of Information request reference: 22/00678/FOI
Re:
The Council does hold the requested information and our...
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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...