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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 2200)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Wokingham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait,
RE: Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 13044
Thank you for your recent communication.
1. In terms of the Freedom of Information A...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Mansfield District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – Ref No: 006178
Thank you for your email of the 9 July 2020 where you requested our
complete and...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Ashfield District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – Ref No: 006177
Thank you for your email of the 9 July 2020 where you requested our
complete and...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Carmarthenshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr. Chait
I refer to your request for information, which was received on 9th July, 2020 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Hart District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin,
Your FOI has been logged and allocated to an officer.
Reference: 20/01457/FOI
Please quote the above in any future correspon...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Newham Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Information request
Our reference: 942535
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Mid Suffolk District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Sir,
Please be advised that business rates datasets for Mid Suffolk District Council are currently unavailable. They have been temporarily remove...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Babergh District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Sir,
Please be advised that business rates datasets for Babergh District Council are currently unavailable. They have been temporarily removed fr...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Selby District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Good Afternoon,
Please find attached acknowledgement letter for your recent Freedom of
Information request.
Kind regards,
Fr...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Gwynedd Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Freedom of Information (ref T152)
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Your request has be...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Horsham District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2000 / Environmental Information
Regulations (EIR) 2004 / Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018
Thank you for your informa...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Scarborough Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 – FOIA7419
Thank you for your request which has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Inf...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
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 (Q2 2020)
Response by Daventry District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your email. Unfortunately the Council has had to remove the business rate data from its website and is unable to release t...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Rugby Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
From: Gavin Chait +AFs-mailto:request-675366-69264553+AEA-whatdotheyknow.com+AF0-
Sent: 09 July 2020 06:15
To: Contact Centre +ADw-Contact.Centre+AEA-r...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request: FOI 6363
We consider the information you have requested to be exempt. The following exemptions apply:
S...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Sheffield City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your recent request for information relating to Business
Rates which we received on 09/07/2020.
Please fin...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by High Peak Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Sir
Re: Freedom of Information Act request – Business Rates
Thank you for your request for information which was received by the
Council...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Telford and Wrekin Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait,
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 Acknowledgement -TWC-55569
Thank you for your request for information received by us on 09 Ju...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Sir/ Madam,
I acknowledge with thanks your request for information; this request has been considered as a request under the Freedom of Informatio...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Melton Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Freedom of Information ACT 2000 [“FOIA”]
Reference: RFI-2020-1096
I write to acknowledge your request for info...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Monmouthshire County Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Thank you for reporting your Freedom of Information. We have
received your request.
Freedom of Information and the Coronavirus Covid-19...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Stratford on Avon District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Freedom of Information Response
#20324
Dear Gavin Chait
Further to your request, following the decision of the first -tier
Tribunal (General Regul...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Fylde Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Good Morning Mr Chait,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Unfortunately, we are unable to supply/disclose the information that you ar...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2020)
Response by Richmond upon Thames Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Official
Request for Information - LBR2019/1683 - Business Rates Data
I refer to your request for information received on 09/07/2020. Please...
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...