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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 1797)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Hastings Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Chait
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request ref: FOIR-128477672
Please find attached our response.
Yours sincere...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Corby Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Sir
Unfortunately, it was not clear from your previous e-mail that you
required an official internal review to take place. We read this as...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Newcastle upon Tyne City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Good afternoon Gavin
The definitions for the terms in the header row are as follows:
LIALiability
TRLTransitional Relief
SBRSmall Business Relief
CHR...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q2 2019)
Internal review request sent to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting internal review.
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Hinckley and Bosworth...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q1 2019)
Response by Brighton and Hove City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information requested by: Mr Gavin Chait
Review carried out by: Peter Bode
Freedom of Information request
Our reference: 2793168...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Dear Mr Chait
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam
Further to your Freedom of Information request please find attached the
information you requested.
Should you require any f...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q2 2019)
Response by East Northamptonshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your email requesting a review of our response to your
Freedom of Information Request, reference number 15308.
...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by St Albans District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
CORPORATE SERVICES
Acting Head of Service - Simonne De Vall
Our Ref: 000003591
Please ask for: FOI Coordinator
Direct Dial: (01727) 819209
e-m...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Conwy County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir,
Please accept my apologies, the web link address has been updated and the new url is as follows:
https://www.conwy.gov.uk/en/Business/Busin...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Pendle Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Please see list attached
Regards
Sarah Waterworth
Committee Administrator
Tel: 01282 661654
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Uttlesford District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Woking Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request.
Reference: (3653-15473382)
Subject: Business Rates
Thank you for your req...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Swindon Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
Please accept my apologies that this was not included. We have since had a new set of data extracted so I have updated the revised ve...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Follow up sent to Rhondda Cynon Taff Council by Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Thank you so much for the data provided, however the occupation status(void/occupied) is not included. Please could you update this and provide an u...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
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 (Q2 2019)
Response by Hartlepool Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Further to your request for information, I can advise as attached.
We hope that this information deals with your request, however if you a...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Bridgend County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST X04-1474
We refer to your email dated 3^rd July 2019 which contained a request for
informat...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Sunderland City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Chait
Please see attached response to your recent freedom of information
request.
Kind regards
Sharon
Sharon Holden IR...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by North Warwickshire Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good Afternoon,
I hope this answers your query.
“If you would like a review of the response to your request or if you have any complaints about the...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Wrexham County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act, please find at...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 1559797
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Dear Mr Chait
Thank you...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Sedgemoor District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request. Please find attached the information you require.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you can ask for a review, whi...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 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 contained...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q2 2019)
Response by Kingston upon Thames Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Chait,
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request, please find
attached my response.
If I can be of any further assistance 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...