Freedom of information (FOI) releases from Herefordshire Council

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  1. 1. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many pest-related complaints, reports or service requests did the council receive, broken down by pest type: rats; mice; bedbugs; cockroaches; wasps; fleas; ants; other? If you do not record by pest type, please give the total.

    2. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many pest control treatments or callouts at residents' homes did the council carry out, or arrange through a contractor?

    3. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many fly-tipping incidents did the council record?

    4. As at the date of your response:

    (a) does the council offer a pest control service to residents for their homes (yes/no), and if it has been withdrawn or reduced since 2015, in which year?

    (b) is the service delivered in-house or by a contractor, and if so, which?

    (c) what is the standard charge to a resident for a rat treatment, and for a bedbug treatment, including VAT?

    (d) which residents, if any, qualify for free or discounted treatment?

    (e) the web address of your pest control page.

    Clarification: Question 1 covers all pest-related complaints, reports and service requests the council received about domestic premises (people's homes), whether from owners or tenants - for example reports of rats, mice, bedbugs, cockroaches, wasps, fleas or ants dealt with by environmental health or by any pest control service the council runs or arranges. Relevant legislation would include the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949, but I am not limiting the question to any particular statute. If you also hold figures for commercial premises, please give them separately. Questions 2 to 4 are unchanged.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  2. Please provide the following figures under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    Who to count These definitions follow your Client Level Data (CLD) return to NHS England, so the figures should come straight from your CLD records.

    - People: adults aged 18 to 64 on 31 March 2026 receiving long-term support arranged or funded, in whole or in part, by the council on that date, each counted once.

    Please exclude short-term support, respite and temporary care home stays.

    - Setting (CLD service component): residential care ("Long term residential care"), nursing care ("Long term nursing care") and supported living ("Community supported living", not extra care housing).

    - Outside the area: the postcode of the person's normal place of residence recorded for CLD lies outside your council's boundary.

    For a care home, this is the home's postcode; for supported living, the tenancy address.

    - Primary support reason: as recorded for CLD.

    Question 1: all adults aged 18 to 64

    1a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1c. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    Question 2: the same adults, by primary support reason Learning disability support

    2a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2c. Supported living -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Mental health support

    2e. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2f. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2g. Supported living -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2h. All three settings -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Physical or sensory support

    2i. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2j. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2k. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2l. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    All other reasons, or not recorded

    2m. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2n. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2o. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2p. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Question 3: the same adults with a recorded autism diagnosis (CLD autism field "Yes") If the council does not record autism diagnosis,please say so.

    3a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3c. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Small numbers The totals matter most. If you need to withhold small numbers, please withhold figures in Questions 2 and 3 first, and keep the "All three settings" lines wherever possible. Please show withheld figures as, for example, "<5" with your threshold, and true zeros as 0. A band such as "1-4" is fine. If this would exceed the cost limit Please answer Question 1, then Question 2, then Question 3, and tell me which parts you could not answer, rather than refusing the whole request. Format Filling in the lines above in your reply is equally fine. If you use a different date or definition, please say which.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  3. To assist us in better understanding the reach and implementation of the programme, please can you provide - for each year in the period 2018–2025 (or the fullest extent available) - any available data held by the council in relation to the following points, broken down separately by holiday period (Christmas, Easter and Summer; and where applicable February, late Spring and October half-terms):

    1. the number of child-day-places commissioned in each holiday

    2. the number of child-day-places attended in each holiday

    3. the overall number of unique children who participated in the programme in each holiday

    4. the overall number of unique children in receipt of FSMs who participated in the programme in each holiday

    5. the number of unique children with SEND or additional needs who have participated in the programme in each holiday

    6. the number and proportion of unique children who are in the primary school age range, the secondary school age range, and any children outside of those age ranges who attended the programme in each holiday

    7. whether the council received or used funding from sources other than the Department for Education's HAF grant to support the delivery of HAF activities. This includes funding from private sources (such as charitable institutions), as well as funds that were reallocated to the HAF programme from other government funding sources (such as the Crisis and Resilience Fund or the Household Support Fund).

    8.the amount of any such additional funding,

    9. the source of the additional funding, and

    10. postcodes of all venues where the HAF programme was delivered, listed separately for each holiday period.

    Information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or CSV format would be appreciated, if possible.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  4. I am writing to submit a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am requesting information regarding all currently licensed private hire vehicles (PHVs) and hackney carriage vehicles (HCs) under the authority of Herefordshire Council

    For each currently licensed vehicle, I kindly request the following information:

    -Vehicle make, model and body colour

    -Date of first registration with the DVLA

    - Date of the next MOT inspection test, Compliance test or any other vehicle technical inspection

    - Licence issue and expiry date

    Where applicable, please provide the dates in DD/MM/YYYY format.

    I am requesting the information as it is currently held by the Council. I am not requesting any personal information relating to vehicle owners or licence holders.

    Published: 22 October 2026

  5. Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, please send me the current school catchment (priority, designated or normal) area boundaries for Herefordshire, for admission in September 2027, as GIS data (Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, ideally in British National Grid or WGS84), with the name and DfE number (URN or LAESTAB) of the school each area belongs to. I am asking because the boundaries are currently published only as an online map or address lookup, which cannot be reused accurately. If a file is already held for the council's own map viewer, that will do. If any area is not held digitally, please say which. Please tell me the licence the data is supplied under.

    Published: 21 October 2026

  6. I am writing to request information relating to the condition of privately rented residential properties. Please could you provide the following information for each calendar year from 2021 to 2025 inclusive:

    1) The total number of complaints or service requests received by the council relating to the condition of privately rented residential properties.

    2) A breakdown of these complaints or service requests by the council's existing recorded category or issue type, where this information is held.

    3) The total number of inspections, assessments or visits carried out by the council relating to the condition of privately rented residential properties.

    4) A breakdown of the issues, hazards or deficiencies identified during these inspections or assessments, using the council's existing recorded categories or classifications, where this information is held.

    For example, where applicable, recorded issues may include damp and mould, excess cold, fire safety, electrical hazards, structural problems, disrepair, sanitation, ventilation, falls hazards or other housing-condition issues.

    I am interested in the council's existing records and classifications and are not asking the council to create new categories or manually review individual cases in order to classify them. If the council uses a specific housing-condition assessment or inspection framework, please provide the information according to the terminology and classifications already used by the council.

    We are not seeking to prescribe a particular assessment methodology. If the council does not routinely identify whether a property is privately rented within its general complaints or inspection systems, please provide the requested information where it is held within a relevant private-sector housing, environmental health, housing standards, housing enforcement or equivalent dataset.

    Published: 21 October 2026

  7. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information about managed moves involving pupils at schools within your local authority area.

    For the purposes of this request, a managed move means an arrangement for a pupil to transfer from one school to another, usually as an alternative to permanent exclusion. I recognise that terminology and recording practices may vary between schools and local authorities. Please provide the following information for the academic years specified under each question, where held.

    1. Number of managed moves

    a) How many managed moves were arranged for pupils transferring between schools within your local authority area?

    b) How many managed moves involved pupils transferring from a mainstream school to another mainstream school, and how many involved transfers to alternative provision or another type of setting, where recorded?

    Period: Academic years 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26.

    2. Outcomes of managed moves

    a) How many managed moves were recorded as successfully completed?

    b) How many managed moves broke down, were unsuccessful or resulted in the pupil returning to their original school?

    c) How many managed moves were still ongoing or had no recorded outcome at the end of each academic year?

    Period: Academic years 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26.

    3. Subsequent suspensions and permanent exclusions

    a) Of the pupils who underwent a managed move, how many subsequently received one or more suspensions at their receiving school, where recorded?

    b) How many subsequently received a permanent exclusion from their receiving school, where recorded?

    c) How many pupils whose managed moves broke down or were unsuccessful subsequently received a permanent exclusion, where recorded?

    Period: Academic years 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26.

    Please provide the information in an excel spreadsheet format if possible.

    Published: 21 October 2026

  8. Please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, relating to counterfeit goods (goods infringing trade marks or other intellectual property rights) seized by your Trading Standards service. For each calendar year 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and for 1 January to 30 September 2026, with the period 1 October to 31 December shown separately for each full year:

    1. The number of seizures and the number of items seized.

    2. The figures in question 1, split by product category. Please use your own categories, or as close as possible to: electrical goods (including chargers and plugs); mobile phones and accessories; toys; cosmetics and perfume; clothing, footwear and accessories; alcohol; tobacco and vapes; other.

    3. The estimated retail value of the goods seized.

    4. The number of seized electrical items that were safety tested, and how many of those failed. Please provide the information in a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV).

    If answering every question would exceed the cost limit, please answer questions 1 and 2 first and let me know how the remainder could be narrowed, in line with your duty to advise and assist under section 16. If you do not hold information for any question, please say so and still answer the others. If any of this information is already published, please send a direct link to the exact dataset.

    Published: 21 October 2026

  9. Please could you advise whether there are any currently live Compulsory Purchase Orders which are not yet registered on the Land Charges register, and if so, provide any relevant plans and details? Additionally, please could you confirm whether the 2 Overross Farmhouse Compulsory Purchase Order is registered on the Land Charges?

    Published: 21 October 2026

  10. I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding council-operated town centre car parks. For the purposes of this request, please use the Council's own definition or designation of a "town centre" rather than undertaking any new analysis to determine whether a car park falls within a town centre. For each of the financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:

    1. The total income from parking charges received from council-owned or council-operated off-street car parks located within town centres.

    2. The direct operating expenditure associated with those car parks.

    3. The resulting net income/surplus or deficit, if this is already calculated by the Council.

    4. The number of car parks and total number of parking spaces covered by the figures above, where this information is readily available.

    5. The names of the car parks included within the figures, so that we can understand how the Council has interpreted "town centre".

    Please exclude income from Penalty Charge Notices or other parking enforcement activity. If season tickets, permits or other non-casual parking income are included within the income figure, please either identify the amount separately or indicate that they are included.

    Where information is not held in precisely this format, I would be grateful if you could provide the closest information already held by the Council rather than undertaking new calculations. If possible, please provide the information electronically, preferably in spreadsheet or table format.

    Published: 21 October 2026