Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information from your Business Rates (Non-Domestic Rates) records:
A complete and up-to-date list of all non-domestic properties within your billing authority.
For each property, please provide:
Full property address
Current ratepayer / liable party (company or organisation name only – I do not require personal names of individuals or sole traders)
Account start date / occupation date
Property description (e.g. warehouse, office, shop)
Rateable value
Details of any reliefs applied (including empty property relief, small business rate relief, charitable relief, etc.)
I am requesting this information in a machine-readable format such as CSV or Excel.
To be clear, I am not asking for any personal data relating to individuals. I only require company or organisation names where applicable. This approach is in line with ICO guidance and with the fact that many councils already routinely publish such datasets.
If you consider that parts of this request are exempt under GDPR, please provide the remainder (e.g. company records) rather than withholding the dataset in its entirety.