FOI request (FOIR-714624524)

100% council tax premium

Requested Wed 14 May 2025
Responded Thu 05 June 2025

The information I am requesting relates to the 100% council tax premium and neighbours reporting second homeowners to the authorities.

For the period April 2024 to May 2025:

1. How many reports has the council received of suspected second homes from residents?

2. How many second home premium charges have been issued as a result of reports?

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Response

NOTICE OF REFUSAL

The information requested in respect of this request would require us to manually check each customer record, of which there are approximately 2000. This would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner. 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 part of your request.