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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 2260)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
We are contacting you to inform you that there may be a delay in providing you with a response within the timescale for the FOI Act due...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by South Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request
Reference No: 1901516
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Infor...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by West Lancashire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Ref No: 2020/510
Date : 23^rd October 2020
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
Tha...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 515
Thank you for your email of 13th October where you requested information about Business Rates...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir,
Further to your Freedom of Information request please find attached the
information you have requested.
Should you require any f...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Hillingdon Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
FOI 8492901
Dear Gavin Chait,
I am writing in response to your request for information below.
We decline to provide a response pursuant to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Ceredigion Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 13^th October
2020.
The information you have requested is as fol...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Bromley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
FOI 21926
Further to your recent FOI enquiry, please find the requested data attached.
We trust this completes your FOI enquiry whi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Spelthorne Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
I can confirm that Spelthorne Borough Council holds the requested
information.
You are advised that this information is provided in accordan...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Watford Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
Thanks for your request submitted on 09.07.2020. Please accept our apologies for the severe delay in the response.
This data is published...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Fenland District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request for information, please see our response
attached.
If you require any further information regarding your request or a...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
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 (Q3 2020)
Response by Birmingham City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Information request
Our reference: 18388959
Your reference: [FOI #698207 email]
Our ref: 18388959
19 October 2020
Gavin Chait
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Accoun...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Babergh District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Reference: FOI-260340503
Date of request: 13/10/2020
Title of request: Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
(Q3 2020) Babergh DC...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by East Suffolk Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Gavin Chait
Please find attached the response to your request.
Please note: prior to 1 April 2019, East Suffolk Council operated as two
disti...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Hart District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Gavin,
Your FOI has been logged and allocated to an officer.
Reference: 20/02293/FOI
Please quote the above in any future correspond...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
I am writing to respond to your recent request for information. This
request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your request for information.
Your request will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (o...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
I refer to your request for information which was made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 on 13.10.2020.
A decision was made on your requ...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Wellingborough Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Gavin
I write in response to your request made under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, on 13 October 2020.
The Borough Council of...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Harrow Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Information request
Our reference: 5836059
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Dear Mr. Chait
Thank you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Sunderland City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
Your request for information FOI_2893
I am writing to explain that there will be a delay in replying to your
request due to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by Wyre Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Morning
In response to your recent FOI the information you require will be updated this month and can be found at following link to our website:
http...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Powys County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
In response to your email below, We have undertaken an Internal review of our response and include the outcome of that review as an att...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2020)
Response by St Albans District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
CORPORATE SERVICES
Head of Service - Simonne De Vall
Our Ref: 000004775
Please ask for: FOI Coordinator
Direct Dial: (01727) 819209
e-mail add...
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...