Empty Property Rate Relief Register
Case reference FOI2026/01394
Received 4 July 2026
Published 30 July 2026
Request
Please provide the following information in respect of non-domestic properties (business rates hereditaments) in your billing authority area that are currently in receipt of Empty Property Rate Relief or are otherwise recorded as unoccupied on your business rates register:
1. Billing authority property reference
2. Property address and postcode
3. Rateable value
4. Date on which the property was first recorded as vacant / unoccupied
5. Type of empty rate relief applied (full, partial, discretionary, or none)
I would be grateful if the response could be provided in a machine-readable format — CSV or Excel is ideal.
Response
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please find the answers to your queries below:
Please provide the following information in respect of non-domestic properties (business rates hereditaments) in your billing authority area that are currently in receipt of Empty Property Rate Relief or are otherwise recorded as unoccupied on your business rates register:
1. Billing authority property reference
2. Property address and postcode
3. Rateable value
4. Date on which the property was first recorded as vacant / unoccupied
5. Type of empty rate relief applied (full, partial, discretionary, or none)
I would be grateful if the response could be provided in a machine-readable format — CSV or Excel is ideal.
Guildford Borough Council publishes information regarding business rates on its website. This includes the details you have requested, and you can find the files, along with an explanation of the contents, via the following website:
https://www.guildford.gov.uk/bratesdata
As the information is already in the public domain I consider this information to be exempt from disclosure on request under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as itis already available elsewhere.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Guildford Borough Council
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