FOI request (FOIR-167748063)

For this reason and in line with the terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000 could you please provide me with a complete and up-to-date list of all business (non-residential) property rates data for your local authority, and including the following fields:

- Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the VOA database reference) 

- Account Holder

- Firm's Trading Name (if applicable) 

- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town) 

- Occupied / Vacant 

- Date of Occupation / Vacancy

- Actual annual rates (charged in Pounds) 

- Details of any reliefs or discounts applied to the account 

- Rateable Value

Please provide these data as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence (meaning reuse for any and all purposes, including commercial).

Please see attached 3 spreadsheets: one full list, one list of exemptions and one of reliefs.

It is not possible to include the annual rates charged in £s. We don't have a report to list the £s charged so would have to check each account manually therefore is being refused under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act. 

To gather this information would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner therefore under S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this request