Please could I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

1.The total number of business and or commercial premises owned by Wokingham Borough Council, that have been empty or vacant for 12 months or more, and of that number, how many have their primary function as:
a) retail space
b) office space
c) leisure space
d) other

We publish our Business Rates information, and update this on a regular basis. Therefore we are refusing this request under Section 21 and 22 of the Freedom of Information Act. This information can be found on the following page under the Business Rates category and we would ask you to bookmark this page for future reference if you find it of interest. You will be able to extract the information from these spreadsheets to find the answer to this question.

The public interest test has been considered and as the information is updated periodically, and resource is better utilised elsewhere within the authority, it is not appropriate to create the dataset outside of the usual scheduled slot.