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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 1709)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Copeland Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your request for information regarding Complete
Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
I can...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your request for information regarding ‘Business Rates’ (reference number 04483); Please see our response attached. If you h...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Wycombe District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Good morning
I am writing in response to your email for us to consider the refusal of
the release of information under the Freedom of Information...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Taunton Deane Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Partially successful.
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The Council is comm...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by South Derbyshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request below.
Kind regards.
Cherrill Spencer
Secretarial Support to...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
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 April 2019.
Please find e...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q1-2019)
Response by Epping Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Freedom of Information Request Ref:737
I refer to your recent request for information about business rates, which
was received b...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Richmond upon Thames Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Request for Information - LBR2019/0010 - Complete Non-Residential /
Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Wandsworth Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Wandsworth Request for Information - 2019/0962 - Non-Residential /
Business Property Rates
I refer to your request for information received on 0...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Section 31, Q1-2019)
Response by Corby Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Please accept this e-mail as acknowledgement of receipt of your request for
information and be advised that all e-mails requesting information under t...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
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 (Q1-2019)
Response by Fenland District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request for information received on 03/04/19 which has
been processed and the information is attached.
If you require any f...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Liverpool City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 680664
Enquiries to:
Our Ref:
Information Team
FOI 680664
email [email address]
Dear Mr Chait
Freedom of Informa...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Follow up sent to Lambeth Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you for providing me with a link to your data. Are you able to advise if you are also able to provide me with the occupancy status of each pro...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by New Forest District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sirs
FOI REQUEST - BUSINESS RATES
Thank you for your request for information under of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. You...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Wiltshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
Please see the attached response to your request for information.
Kind regards,
Kyle McCormack
Information Governance Officer
Wiltsh...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
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. ***
I write further to your request for inform...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Hastings Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request ref: FOIR-112293311
Please find attached our response
Yours si...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 225/2019
Thank you for your email of 3rd April where you requested information about Business Rate...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Sedgemoor District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait
Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your request for information about Business Rates. Your
request was received...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Breckland District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Hello Gavin,
Please find attached the response to your FOI.
Thanks
Peter
Peter Fuller| Statutory Information Officer
Brec...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Birmingham City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 5724165
Your reference: [FOI #565706 email]
Our ref: 5724165
9 April 2019
Gavin Chait
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Account ref...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Merthyr Tydfil Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Sir/Madam
RE: Freedom Of Information Act 2000 – INFORMATION Request
We acknowledge your request for information about business rat...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Woking Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request.
Our Reference (2930-11431599).
Further to your request for information dated 0...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1-2019)
Response by Bury Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Please find information attached
Regards
Bury Council
This person's 75 annotations
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...
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...