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. Biodiversity net gain

    Please may I make a Freedom of Information request relating to biodiversity net gain. An email response is preferred. My request is to answer the following questions:

    1. Are you bringing forward your own habitat bank for the purposes of offering offsite biodiversity units?

    2. If so, at what stage of development is it?

    3. Have you decided methodology for pricing units yet?

    4. If the answer to Q3 is yes, what is it and is it expected to cover the long-term cost of habitat delivery?

    5. Please supply a full, redacted or template version of any s106 agreement for such an LPA habitat bank, if it is exists.

    6. Please supply copies of all completed section 106 agreements for other habitat banks in your LPA area.

    7. What is the total value of biodiversity offsetting contributions paid to the authority over the previous two years?

    8. Of the total value given in Q7, how much has been deployed into habitat creation, enhancement and management and how much remains unspent?

    Published: 9 August 2024

  2. Payments of Annual Grants - South Wye Community Money Advice Centre / Putson Baptist Church

    I would like to understand the terms and conditions for a series of payments made by the Council to both South Wye Community Money Advice Centre (generally, annual grants of £10,000 paid in March/April each year), and more irregular but higher value payments for Putson Baptist Church Emergency Fund (multiple payments over the last two years ranging from £23,000 to over £60,000). I do have a reference ‘HC127537’ which may expedite matters more quickly.

    Published: 9 August 2024

  3. Community asset closures

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

     

    - the number of library closures in your local authority in the last 12 months

     

    - the number of community centre closures in your local authority in the last 12 months

     

    - the number of football club closures in your local authority in the last 12 months

    In addition, could you please provide the number of Assets of Community Value (ACVs) that were a) nominated in the local authority area

    and b) acquired in the local authority area, both in the last 12 months.

    Published: 9 August 2024

  4. School deficit projections and licensed deficit arrangements 2024/2025

    Please provide me with the following information:

    1) The number of local authority maintained schools in the Council area which are projecting a deficit budget for the 2024/2025 school year.

    2) Of those schools identified in question 1, the number for which the local authority has decided not to agree a licensed deficit arrangement.

    Published: 9 August 2024

  5. Care leaver SARs completion rate

    1)a) What is the percentage completion rate for Children's Records for SAR applications made from children previously in LA care which are completed within the extended three-month deadline as provided by the ICO? Please provide percentages for the last five years.

    1)b) What percentage are completed within three months, and what percentage are not? This applies only where the request for former LAC or CIC requests full disclosure of all historical child records, for example where the child has been in LA care for 10/20 years maybe, the local authority would have to disclose all electronic and archived records pertaining to that individual for that whole period and are disclosed and redacted if necessary.

    2) How many staff are allocated to this role at any one time? If you do not disclose such records due to their volume and would insist on providing only a selection please say this is what you do.

    Published: 9 August 2024

  6. GemFest 24 noise levels

    RE: GemFest 2024

    My questions under the Freedom of Information Act are:

    1) Did your Environmental Health and Licensing for the Safety Advisory Group officers independently measure the noise levels at the venue?

    If so what was their findings?

    If they did not measure the noise levels did they register the organisers own measurements or just that they complied with the Noise Management Plan (NMP) schedule of monitoring?

    2) Was there any monitoring of noise levels undertaken in the local residential areas?

    3) Per the NMP, “any complaints and actions taken will be noted down along with our Noise Monitoring Form …… made available to Local Authority Staff on request.” What were the findings from these in terms of numbers of complaints and actions taken?

    Published: 8 August 2024

  7. Street Votes / Street Vote Development Orders

    My query relates to your local authority's policy on "Street Votes" - where a vote is held to allow the residents of a street to give themselves the right to extend or redevelop their properties. This could include building a mansard roof. An extension. Or building housing on land currently occupied by derelict alleys or disused garages.

    The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 included provision for Street Vote Development Orders, though the new Government has not yet announced if it will proceed with implementing this or not. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55

    Please advise:

    1. Has your local authority stated an opinion on street votes?

    Specifically, did you respond to the official consultation on Street Vote Development Orders?https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/street-vote-development-orders-consultation/street-vote-development-orders If so please send me a copy of your response.

    2. I understand that regardless of Street Vote Development Orders legislation being implemented, individual local authorities could choose to introduce a similar arrangement of their own volition. This could be done by allowing a local poll under Section 116 of the Local Government Act 2003 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/26/section/116?timeline=false&view=plain and then issuing Local Development Orders to reflect what the residents voted for. https://www.local.gov.uk/pas/topics/local-development-orders/local-development-orders.

    Have you held any such street votes?

    Do you have any plans to allow street votes in future?

    Published: 7 August 2024

  8. Transport team budget, schemes and staffing

    CLARIFICATION: I refer to highways/ transport team. I refer to non maintenance capital programme approved schemes.

    1) What was the last 3 years budget for transport related schemes, broken down by year?

    2.a) What contractors/ software (including speed, O/D surveys, traffic count, vehicle type) are/ is used to analyse the road network before a potential scheme is added to the programme?

    2.b) What is the annual cost for these, listed individually?

    3) How many scheme were completed in the last 3 annual programmes, broken down by year?

    4) Please could you confirm the number of staff within the team?

    5) Please could you confirm the cumulative annual wage for the team?

    Published: 7 August 2024

  9. Boarding school placements for children in care

    The statutory guidance for local authorities "Promoting the education of looked after children and previously looked after children" states:

    "The child’s wishes and feelings should be taken into account, and the suitability of the education setting tested by arranging an informal visit with the child. Where a looked after child would benefit from attending a boarding school, either in the state or independent sector, VSHs and social workers should be proactive in considering this option."

    Further to this guidance please advise:

    1. How many of your children in care "Looked After Children", in both number and percentage, are currently in mainstream boarding school placements?

    2. How many of your children in care "Looked After Children", in both number and percentage, are currently in Special Educational Needs boarding school placements?

    3. What procedure (if any) do you have to consult children in care "Looked After Children" about the option of a boarding school placement? What record (if any) do you have of the number of children in care "Looked After Children" - in both number and percentage - who were asked about such an option, in the financial year 2023/24? How many of them expressed a wish to proceed with it?

    4. How many informal visits that you arranged, to mainstream boarding schools, for children in care "Looked After Children" took place in the financial year 2023/24?

    5. How many informal visits that you arranged, to SEN boarding schools, for children in care "Looked After Children" took place in the financial year 2023/24?

    Published: 7 August 2024

  10. School attendance orders issued between 01/07/2023 and 01/07/2024

    Please provide me with the following information.

    1) Between 1st July 2023 and 1st July 2024, how many School Attendance Orders were issued?

    2) Between 1st July 2023 and 1st July 2024, how many of the school attendance orders that were issued were prosecuted for non-compliance?

    3) Of the School Attendance Orders issued between 1st July 2023 and 1st July 2024 and prosecuted for non-compliance, how many were the parent found by the court to be not guilty?

    4) Of the school Attendance orders issued between 1st July 2023 and 1st July 2024, how many did result in a child being registered in school?

    5) Of the School Attendance Orders issued between 1st July 2023 and 1st July 2024, how many have not been prosecuted for non-compliance or revoked?

    Published: 7 August 2024