FOI request (FOIR-348102381)

Business Property Rates

Requested Fri 09 July 2021
Responded  Wed 28 July 2021

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, could you please provide me with your local authority's complete and most-recently updated list of all business (non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

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

- Firm's Trading Name (that is, property occupant or ratepayer)

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

- Occupation / Vacancy status

- Date of Occupation / Vacancy

- Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds) and/or categories of reliefs/exemptions granted

If you are unable to provide an absolute "Occupation / Vacancy" status, please provide the Exemptions and / or Reliefs that a particular property may be receiving.

NOTE: While FOIs are meant to be requestor blind, these data are actively used by national government and UK universities to inform the economic response to COVID-19. Most recently, these data were used by MHCLG for the assessment of support to local authorities via the Levelling Up Fund.

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 (reuse for any and all purposes, including commercial).

I last requested these data three months ago, and this is a request for your latest updated dataset.

Response

Please see attached 3 spreadsheets.

It is not possible to provide annual rates charged because this requires manual checking of each account and would take exceed the time limit set by the Information Commissioner under Section 12 of the Act.

Attachments

• FOIR-348102381_FOIR-348102381_1-FOI348102381_(1)_NDR_Full_List.xlsx
• FOIR-348102381_FOIR-348102381_2-FOI348102381_(2)__NDR_Exemptions.xlsx
• FOIR-348102381_FOIR-348102381_3-FOI348102381_(3)_NDR_All_Reliefs.xlsx