Freedom of information (FOI) releases from Herefordshire Council

This is a disclosure log of Herefordshire Council's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.

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  1. Hereford HUB details

    Please forward me information on the Hereford HUB.

    How much is the predicted maintenance cost per year in regard to all the plants etc Now there is no 15 minute parking,

    How do I collect my online tickets from the station machine

    How do I pick up family members from the station now that the waiting time has disappeared without having to pay a parking charge..

    Why was the parking area not expanded as the car park is too small

    Published: 21 September 2026

  2. agency staffing spend via ESPO frameworks, financial years 2024/5 and 2025/26

    For the financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:

    1. Total expenditure on temporary agency staffing and recruitment services procured through ESPO (Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation) frameworks.

    2. That expenditure broken down by ESPO framework reference number.

    3. That expenditure broken down by supplier name. If no agency staffing has been procured through an ESPO framework in this period, please simply confirm that.

    Published: 21 September 2026

  3. Cancelled Travel and Accommodation

    Please provide the following information for the 2025/26 financial year and 2026/27 financial year to date. Please exclude bookings where the Council received a full refund and therefore incurred no net cost:

    1. The total number of flights, train tickets, taxis, hotel bookings and other travel/accommodation bookings paid for by the Council which were subsequently cancelled or unused, where the Council incurred a financial cost and received no corresponding service.

    2. The total cost to the Council of these cancelled or unused bookings.

    Published: 21 September 2026

  4. Council Tax Enforcement Activities from financial year 2021/22 onwards

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the Council's Council Tax enforcement activities.

    Please provide the following information for each financial year from 2021/22 to 2025/26 (or the most recent year available):

    1. Liability Orders

    Please provide:

    • The number of Council Tax Liability Orders that the Council applied for at the Magistrates' Court.

    • The number of Council Tax Liability Orders granted by the Magistrates' Court.

    2. External Enforcement Agents (Bailiffs)

    Please provide:

    • The number of Council Tax cases referred or passed to external enforcement agents (bailiffs) for collection.

    • Where possible, a breakdown by enforcement agency used.

    3. Attachments to Benefits

    Please provide:

    • The number of Council Tax debts for which deductions were requested directly from benefits administered through Universal Credit.

    • The number of Council Tax debts for which deductions were successfully made from Universal Credit.

    4. Attachments of Earnings

    Please provide:

    • The number of Attachment of Earnings Orders issued in relation to Council Tax debts.

    • The number of Attachment of Earnings Orders that resulted in deductions being made.

    5. Financial Recoveries (if available)

    For each of the above enforcement methods, please provide:

    • The total amount of Council Tax debt recovered.

    • Any fees charged to residents through enforcement action.

    I would prefer to receive the information electronically by email in a spreadsheet or CSV format where possible.

    Published: 21 September 2026

  5. Strangford closed landfill environmental monitoring data

    I am seeking information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 concerning environmental monitoring at the former Strangford landfill site near Llangarron/Sellack.

    Please provide the environmental monitoring data held by the Council for Strangford Closed Landfill Site, from the earliest date for which records are available to the present, covering:

    • landfill leachate;

    • groundwater; and

    • surface water.

    For each monitoring result, where held, I would be grateful for:

    • sampling point/site identifier and description;

    • grid reference or coordinates;

    • sample date;

    • determinand/parameter;

    • analytical result;

    • units; and

    • any qualifier, detection limit or reporting limit.

    Please also include any groundwater-level or leachate-level measurements recorded as part of the monitoring programme.

    I would prefer the data in its existing electronic format (for example CSV or Excel) rather than as PDFs, where this is readily available.

    I would also be grateful for a list or plan identifying the monitoring points at the site, including leachate wells, groundwater boreholes and surface-water sampling points, with their identifiers and locations.

    I am interested primarily in the monitoring data and sampling-point information, rather than general correspondence, invoices or procurement records.

    If providing the complete historic analytical dataset would be disproportionately burdensome, please provide in the first instance a list of the monitoring points, their locations, the periods for which each was monitored, and the determinands analysed. This would allow me to narrow any subsequent request to the most relevant data.

    Published: 21 September 2026

  6. Street lighting asset inventory

    Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and, so far as any part of it is environmental information, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. I am asking for the council's street lighting asset inventory: the register of lighting columns and other lighting units for which Herefordshire Council is the highway authority.

    Please supply the current inventory as a data export containing, for each lighting unit, whichever of these three things the council holds:

    1. The location, as easting and northing or as latitude and longitude. Please state which, and state the coordinate system used (for example OSGB36 / EPSG:27700, or WGS84 / EPSG:4326).

    2. The asset type or unit type. I ask for this only so that lighting columns can be told apart from illuminated bollards, illuminated signs, beacons and feeder pillars, which are commonly held in the same register. Please do not filter these out for me. The type column is all I need.

    3. The switching or control regime for each unit: whether it burns all night, is part-night, or is dimmed, and, where the council holds them, the actual switch-off and switch-on times.

    That is the whole request. I am not asking for wattage, lamp type, mounting height, asset references, street names or any other attribute, and there is no need to remove them if they happen to sit in the same export. I simply do not need them produced. On point 3, if the council does not hold a switching regime against individual assets but does operate a part-night or dimming policy, please instead supply: (a) the current policy document or committee report setting out the switch-off and switch-on times; and (b) a description of which roads or areas are covered by it, and which are excluded from it. I understand traffic routes and some main roads are commonly exempt.

    Published: 21 September 2026

  7. Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services 2023-2026

    Please provide the following for your Authority for each of the last three financial years (2023/24-2025/26):

    1. The number of individuals identified as drinking at increasing or higher risk levels (e.g. via AUDIT/AUDIT-C screening), or as using illicit drugs or misusing prescription medication at a problematic level, whether or not they went on to access structured treatment.

    2. Of those individuals identified in point 1, the number referred into commissioned drug and alcohol treatment services, broken down by referral source.

    3. Of those identified but not referred, or referred but not engaged, the number and reason recorded.

    4. Average waiting time from referral to first treatment contact.

    5. Details of any digital health, cessation, or harm reduction app or self-management tool currently commissioned for addiction, substance use, gambling, or wellbeing support - including product/provider name, contract value, contract length, and cost per head or per user licence, where not commercially sensitive.

    Published: 18 September 2026

  8. Blue Badge Independent Mobility Assessment Process

    1) Does the council rely on externally commissioned services or employ in-house assessors for blue badge Independent Mobility Assessments?

    2) If you use an externally commissioned service, could you provide the name of this service provider?

    3) If the council internally employs in-house assessors, please specify the number of clinically trained assessors and administrative staff who work on blue badge applications.

    4) Do you collaborate with local GP services or NHS trusts to conduct blue badge assessments?

    5) How many of your applications are received through the .gov blue badge digital portal?

    6) How many applications are received direct to the council outside of the .gov blue badge digital portal process?

    7) Do members of the blue badge administration team fill out an application on either the .gov blue badge digital portal, or an internal form on behalf of an applicant that feels they are unable to do it themselves?

    8) Do you use an internal digital case management system for blue badge applications? If so, what is the name of this system.

    9) What is your current cost per assessment? (i.e. triage, telephone assessment & Independent Mobility Assessment)

    Published: 18 September 2026

  9. Highways Weather Preparation

    A) Please provide the following information:

    2025 information (Balfour Beatty Living Places contractor):

    1) Number of drainage or drainage items inspected by a highways officer during June, July & August

    2) number of drains and drain items cleared during June, July & August

    3) number of ditches cleared during June, July & August

    4) number of channels cleared in verges to take water off a road into a ditch during June, July & August

    5) number of claims for potholes during June, July & August

    6) number of roads flooded or closed because of flooding during June, July & August

    7) number of grit bins refilled during June, July & August

    2026 information (M Group contractor):

    1) Number of drainage or drainage items inspected by a highways officer during June, July & August

    2) number of drains and drain items cleared during June, July & August

    3) number of ditches cleared during June, July & August

    4) number of channels cleared in verges to take water off a road into a ditch during June, July & August

    5) number of claims for potholes during June, July & August

    6) number of roads flooded or closed because of flooding during June, July & August

    7) number of grit bins refilled during June, July & August

    B) does Herefordshire council feel adequately prepared for adverse weather as a result of the El Niño shift.

    C) total amount invested in drainage maintenance and improvements 2025 VS 2026

    Published: 17 September 2026

  10. Herefordshire Council's Work From Home Workforce

    Description of the information required: I would like to know how many, and what proportion, of Herefordshire Council's workforce currently works partly or wholly from home.

    I would also like to know within that figure, how many remote workers reside

    (a) elsewhere in the UK (i.e. outside of Herefordshire), and

    (b) outside of the UK.

    Published: 16 September 2026