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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 2700)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2021)
Response by Tandridge District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your enquiry which we are dealing with as a request
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be answered w...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by North Northamptonshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Gavin
Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request made under the Fr...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 2023/054
Thank you for your email of 26/01/2023 where you requested information about Business Rates.
The in...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Oadby and Wigston Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
I hope this finds you well.
As part of our on-going performance monitoring, Oadby and Wigston Borough
Council would like t...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Lewisham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 17153477
Thank you for your re...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Pembrokeshire County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by St Albans District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Customer, Business & Corporate Support
Our Ref: 000007077
Please ask for: FOI Coordinator
Direct Dial: (01727) 819209
e-mail address: [St Alban...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 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 20120.
Please find attached the det...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Woking Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request.
Our Reference (10132-13063168).
Further to your request for information dated...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Sunderland City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Please see attached response to your recent freedom of information
request.
Kind regards
Sharon
Sharon Holden IRRV...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good afternoon
I refer to your request for information dated 26 January 2023 and given the reference number above. I have considered this request unde...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Southend-on-Sea City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Partially successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Freedom of Information Request – FOI 12576
I am writing regarding your request for information, which was received on
26...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
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 (Q4 2022)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 9486645
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2022)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 2022/512
Thank you for your email where you requested information about Business Rates.
The information you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 7134075
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Dear Gavin Chait
Thank y...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Bromley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
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Dear Gavin Chat,
A comment has been added to your request (Request ID: B82NFER3YR).
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q4 2022)
Request sent to St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Long overdue.
I am aware that you already publish data https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/media/4860/FOI-Full-List-as-at-13102022/pdf/FOI_Full_List_as_at_13102022.pdf?m=638...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Ealing Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Our ref: 23-0114
Dear Gavin Chait,
Please find attached our completed response to your information request.
If you are dissatisfied w...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
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
Departmen...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
OFFICIAL
Ref - 1010101
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your freedom of information request received on 26th
January, please see our r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Dartford Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request: 069- 2023 1694 R&B/23
Thank you for your request received by Sevenoaks District Council on 26
J...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
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 (Q4 2022)
Response by New Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi Gavin
See attached as requested.
Regards
Ryan
Ryan Stevens
Service Manager - Revenue and Benefits
New Forest District Council
Tel: 02380 285693...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2022)
Response by Hart District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
Further to your Freedom of Information request reference: 23/00148/FOI
Re: “Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4...
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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...