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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 1876)
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2019)
Response by Southend on Sea Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Chait,
I refer to your request for a review of the response provided to you in
respect of your FOI request 09199.
Whilst it is our...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Dacorum Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your request dated 11th Oct 19 for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
You have requested the in...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2019)
Response by Somerset West and Taunton Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Reference: FOI-158609268
Date of request: 25/11/2019
Title of request: however the billing authority reference number
business-rates
Dear Gavin Ch...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information – 800-1920
Thank you for your request for information received...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2019)
Response by Shropshire Council to Gavin Chait on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Chait
Thank you for your email. The webpage will be updated with the corrected information during the 1st week of December.
Thank you for bri...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Hambleton District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request. Please accept our
sincere apologies for the delay in responding to you.
Due...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Data Quality, Q3 2019)
Response by Charnwood Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
Thank you for your information request which is acknowledged.
Your request is being considered and you should receive the information
within 20 wor...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Eden District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request Relating to Business Rates
Further to your FOI request which was logged under reference FOI: 0652...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Follow up sent to Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
I understand that your data are regularly published, but the last update on your website is from March. It is now November. Could you please let me...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Hartlepool Council to Gavin Chait on .
Delayed.
Thank you for your email which has been received by the Council.
If your request relates to official council held information it will be
handled in...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Reigate and Banstead Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Reference: FOI-156878600
Date of request: 2019-11-14 09:18:10
Title of request: Business rates
Dear Gavin Chait,
Thank you for your request.
...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Broxbourne Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Thank you for your request for information, our reference BFR000137
Your request has now been considered and the information can be found
attached....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 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 (Q3 2019)
Clarification sent to Powys County Council by Gavin Chait on .
Awaiting response.
I'm afraid that I do not understand your response at all. You state that it would take too much time for you to provide the ratepayer / trading name...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Swindon Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Gavin Chait
The answers to your questions are contained in the attached spreadsheet.
Personal names have been omitted for data protection pu...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Darlington Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
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Dear Mr Chait
...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Bridgend County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir/Madam
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST X04-1749
We refer to your email dated 11 October 2019 and, whilst we can confirm
that we hol...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir
Please find attached the information you have requested. If you require
any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me....
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by North Warwickshire Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good Afternoon,
Please find spreadsheet attached in response to your freedom of information request.
I hope this answers your query.
“If you would...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Rushcliffe Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your freedom of information request received on 11th
October, please see our response in the attached file.
...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Kingston upon Thames Borough Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin Chait
I refer to your recent Freedom of Information request, please find
attached my response.
If I can be of any further assistance plea...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Teignbridge District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Sir
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Please see report attached with data for all limited companies. The
informat...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q4 2019)
Response by Chiltern District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Reference Number: CFOI/18630
This is to acknowledge receipt of your email and as requested we will
disregard your previous request..
Yours sincere...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by South Staffordshire District Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Dear Gavin
Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 2019/601
Thank you for your email of 11th October 2019 where you requested information about Busin...
Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data (Q3 2019)
Response by Birmingham City Council to Gavin Chait on .
Successful.
Information request
Our reference: 9917280
Your reference: [FOI #610867 email]
Our ref: 9917280
5 November 2019
Gavin Chait
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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...