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Gavin Chait
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2016
I’m an independent development economist, researching & mapping commercial investment potential for all business types across England & Wales. Critical to my work are the hereditament data for every non-domestic ratepayer, including vacancies, in all local authorities. These are collated into a single standardised timeseries at https://pikhaya.com.
If you'd like access to the data, or to support the work I do, please contact me.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 1403)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Section 31, Q2 2018)
Follow up sent to Enfield Council by Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Thank you for your detailed response. Ordinarily, given yours is a Section 31 refusal, I would refer this directly to ICO for a ruling. However, a S...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2018)
Response by East Northamptonshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
The reference number for your request is 14536
You will receive...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Follow up sent to Gwynedd Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you for the data provided in response to my request, however, there does not appear to be a field indicating the occupation status of each pro...
We have deleted a response from Brentwood Borough Council sent on the 16th May 2018 due to the apparent accidental release of personal information....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Shropshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for bringing this error to our attention. Unfortunately on this occasion there was a mistake made when we prepared the data fo...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by North Dorset District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Gavin Chait,
Regarding the following Information Access Request:
In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to sec...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
I refer to your Freedom of Information request dated 5 June 2018. Please
see the attached spread sheet detailing the information req...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Conwy County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good Morning,
Please find attached my response to your Freedom of Information Request No. 0247-18.
Kind Regards,
Tîm Trethi Busnes Business Rate Te...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Amber Valley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Please see attached response to your request.
Regards
Joan Jones | Civic Links & FOI Officer
Amber Valley Borough Council...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q2 2018)
Response by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information request, our ref: 4918.
Thank you for your request in regards to Business Property Rates. This has
b...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Brighton and Hove City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Freedom of Information request
Our reference: 1333733
Your reference: [FOI #489078 email]
Brighton & Hove City Council
4th Floor Bart...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Hounslow Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Gavin Chait
Please find attached response to your Freedom of Information Request and the details you required.
To open the Excel spreadsheet...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Ceredigion Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Many thanks for your Freedom of Information request dated 4^th June 2018.
Please find attached the Authority’s response to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by East Lindsey District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information 1819-06-153
Thank you for your recent request for information. Your request has...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Southend on Sea Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Please find attached my response to your recent Freedom of Information
Request.
I hope you will find the information you re...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Hyndburn Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr. Chait,
Your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 has
been considered and a response is attached.
If...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by South Derbyshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Your request for information has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and I attach our response.
Sharon Harvey
Sec...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
In response to your request for information received at...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Burnley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hi,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Please see attached response
You may, if dissatisfied with the treatment of yo...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
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 (data as at 11.6.18).
If you are dissatisfied with thi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2018)
Response by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your request. This has not been logged under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as it appears to be identical to an...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Stoke on Trent City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr
Chait
Your request for information ref. SOT68...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Cornwall Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request dated 4 June 2018.
Please find enclo...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Maldon District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information Request.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to con...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2018)
Response by Greenwich Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Reported for administrator attention.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information: FOI-15686
Thank you for your request dated 4^th June 2018
Our response is as follows:
T...
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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...
As with other requests in this series, the only way that Greater Manchester Police would be able to assess whether the crimes involve empty properties...
Aggregate data on criminal activity, squatting, and / or damage in empty business properties
Information not held.
As with other requests in this series, the authority does not collect or hold data on crime in empty properties. Despite this, they claim releasing dat...