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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 1945)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your request for information regarding ‘Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data’ (reference number 05501); P...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q4 2019)
Response by Hyndburn Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Thank you for your email. Please can you let me know the FOI number this relates too?
Thanks.
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Ealing Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
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 (Q4 2019)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
This document was classified as: OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Chait,
Thank you for getting back to us.
Looking on whatdotheyknow.com we have rejected your last...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
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 (Q4 2019)
Response by Havant Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin,
Freedom of Information request
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 or Environmen...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q4 2019)
Request sent to Mendip District Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
I am aware that you already publish data https://www.mendip.gov.uk/media/20795/Mendip-District-Council-NNDR-Full-list-01-01-2020/CSV/Mendip_District...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Message classification: Not Protectively Marked.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find attached the Council’s response to your Freedom of Information Request....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Bromley Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Further to my last email, the password is: 2Udrcpindref2
Regards
John Nightingale
Head of Revenues and Benefits
Fi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q4 2019)
Response by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Classification: Unrestricted
Good morning,
Thank you for your request for information received on 14 February 2020.
The Council’s policy...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Woking Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request.
Our Reference (4695-14195750).
Further to your request for information dated 2...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
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 16159.
Please find attached the de...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Lincoln City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Please note that Freedom of Information Requests should be submitted via
our website at
[1]https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/lincoln/make-a-freedom-of-infor...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q4 2019)
Response by Rutland County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached the final response from Rutland County Council.
Regards
Freedom of Information
Rutland County...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your freedom of information request received on 23rd January, please see our response in the attached document.
Your ri...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by South Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request
Reference No: 1695312
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Informati...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
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, please contact...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by North Kesteven District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Ref No: 19/523
10 February 2020
Dear Mr Chait
We refer to previous correspondence regarding your request for information
relating to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Copeland Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your request for information regarding Business Rates
I can advise that the information requested is within the...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by West Lancashire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Ref No: 2020/46
Date : 7 February 2020
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
Thank y...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 2789745
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by New Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received by the Council on 23 January 2020.
You r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 050/2020
Thank you for your email of 23rd January where you requested information about Business R...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Warwick District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please see attached spreadsheet in response to your information request.
Kind regards
Jason Smith
Revenues and Recovery Manager
Jason...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Stratford on Avon District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
FOI Response #14567
FOI #14567
Dear Gavin Chait
Further to your request, please see attached spreadsheet in response to
your information request....
This person's 76 annotations
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...
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...