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.

If you can't find the information you're looking for, you can make a new FOI request.

Filters

Clear filters

  • Keywords filters

  • Year filters

  • Month filters

2,743 disclosures

  1. Number of asylum seekers currently supported by Herefordshire Council

    I am looking to find the number of asylum seekers the council is currently supporting.

    Under FOI laws, please use the most recently available data to provide the areas where they are accommodated, broken down into the flowing parliamentary constituencies:

    North Herefordshire;

    Hereford and South Herefordshire;

    Please provide the total number of asylum seekers per parliamentary constituency, or the postcode prefix if this is easier.

    Please DO NOT provide the full postcode, or the name of any building.

    Please state the date to which this data applies, being as specific as possible.

    Published: 15 November 2023

  2. Administrative and enforcement duties concerning the private rented sector and social housing

    This FOI request is for the attention of officers who oversee administrative and enforcement duties concerning the private rented sector and social housing for the council.

    1. The number of complaints received per year by tenants related to private rented sector housing per year for the following years:

    2021/2022

    2022/2023

    2. The number of complaints received per year by tenants related to social housing per year for the following years:

    2021/2022

    2022/2023

    3. The number of Housing, Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) inspections carried out per year on PRS properties for the following years:

    2021/2022

    2022/2023

    4. How many improvement notices have been served in relation to Category 1 and/or Category 2 hazards on PRS properties per year for the following years:

    2021/2022

    2022/2023

    If possible, please list the total number of Improvement Notices served exclusively because of category 1 hazards.

    2021/2022

    2022/2023

    5. The total number of formal enforcement notices served: Overcrowding Notices (Housing Act 2004 Part 2) on properties in the PRS for the following years:

    2021/2022

    2022/2023

    For clarification, the data I'm generally after service of overcrowding notices served for larger HMOs that are covered in Part 2, which have a licence that only permits a house to be licensed for a specified number of occupants.

    6. For each year since the offence was introduced, the number of civil penalties (if any) issued to private landlords for the following offences:

    a) Smoke and Carbon Monoxide (England) Regulations 2015

    b) The Electrical Safety Standards in the PRS (England) Regulations 2020

    7. Optional open box question to council officers: we want to explore any potential barriers councils face with enforcement of the PRS and what policy/legislative changes central government can make to remove the barriers and increase uptake of certain aspects of enforcement as and when it is required.

    Therefore, we want to hear from council officers directly on what are the main barriers they face with issuing and enforcing civil penalties in the PRS currently. So, for example, factors like a lack of resources/funds, lack of legally trained staff, court waiting times etc.

    Published: 14 November 2023

  3. Sutton Walls Cleanaway Scheme for private water extraction wells

    "An offer was made to anyone with a private water extraction well who was down gradient and close to the [Sutton Walls] landfill to be added to piped mains water and was paid for by Cleanaway." Please release all documentation about that scheme. Plus how many properties were involved and how long was the scheme duration?

    Published: 13 November 2023

  4. Secondary age EHCPs

    Please could you send a list of all schools that children of secondary age with EHCPs have been placed in within the last 5 years.

    Published: 13 November 2023

  5. Number of noise complaints regarding Play Nightclub in the last 6 years

    How many noise complaints, public and official, regarding Play Nightclub, Blueschool Street, Hereford, HR1 2AR, in the last 6 years.

    Published: 10 November 2023

  6. Key information critical for Adult Social Care (ASC) providers to support LA

    To enable care providers to work effectively with Local Authorities (LAs) to meet their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments, the following information request looks to establish key information critical for Adult Social Care (ASC) providers to support LA to meet those commitments.

    Questions:

    Q1. Please provide your LA definition for "local" in regard to the procurement of goods and services. Note: if you do not have a specific definition, please offer guidance to ASC providers as to how they should consider this in regard to supporting your LA.

    Q2. Please provide your LA definition for "minority" in instances such as minority-owned businesses and similar contexts. Note: if you do not have a specific definition, please offer guidance to ASC providers as to how they should consider this in regard to supporting your LA.

    Q3. Please state any energy commitments your LA are implementing over the next 1-3 years, and what you require from ASC providers to help achieve your LA commitments to net zero carbon ambitions etc.

    Q4. Please can you provide a copy of, or a link to your current ESG policy statement, guidance, support and/or commitments or requirements as an LA.

    Q5. Please provide information relating to any requirements necessary in respect of ESG for ASC providers to work with your LA, and state any weighting or scoring this may have on your decision to work with such ASC providers now or in the future.

    Published: 10 November 2023

  7. Number of Afghan citizens living in bridging accommodation or declared homeless

    I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    (a) The number of Afghan citizens who entered the UK under ACRS or ARAP are living within your authority area within Government funded bridging accommodation.

    (b) The number of Afghan citizens in your authority area who entered the UK under ACRS or ARAP have declared themselves as homeless.

    I would be grateful if you could provide this information on a month-by-month basis from August 2020 to date. If this breakdown will incur too high costs, then please provide broken down by quarter.

    In addition, please provide the following:

    (c) What plans are in place to respond to homelessness amongst this cohort, including the use of bridging accommodation?

    Published: 9 November 2023

  8. Cattle Grids

    I am writing to you to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    Please note that for the below questions 1, 2 and 3 cattle grids are defined as "a device designed to prevent the passage of animals, or animals of any particular description, but to allow the passage of all or some other traffic, and includes any fence or other works necessary for securing the efficient operation of the said device".

    Please answer the following questions in the spreadsheet format provided:

    1. Does the council currently have a policy of removing existing, or not installing new cattle grids? If so, why?

    2. Please state the total number of cattle grids the Council is responsible for, the total number of cattle grids removed, number of accidents reported involving cattle grids and number of complaints involving cattle grids, number of requests for removal of cattle grids and number of requests for implementation of new cattle grids in the area the Council is responsible for, in the following years?

    3. For each of the following calendar years, please state the Council's total expenditure on cattle grids separating out implementing new ones, repairs to existing ones and removing cattle grids (as per grid below).

    Published: 9 November 2023

  9. Costs of all the road works carried out for Mill Farm in Little Cowarne over the last 18 months

    Over the last 18 months or so significant road/construction has been carried out to improve/facilitate road access to Mill Farm Little Cowarne. This has included the purchase of land, the construction of a temporary road surface, road surfacing and associated works. The contractors have also carried out works for the residents of Mill Farm at weekends within the curtilage of their farm.

    I require full costs of all the works carried out on the road between Mill Farm up to the road leading from the A465 to Little Cowarne towards Pencombe. I would like this broken down as much as is practicable into its individual component parts.

    I would also like to see the authority/documentation and payments/costs for the works carried out by the contractors within the curtilage of Mill Farm.

    Published: 9 November 2023

  10. Unauthorised absence school fines for the Aylestone federation since 2013

    I would like how many fines were issued from the council, relating to unauthorised absence for children from the Aylestone federation, including Withington primary, Broadlands primary and Aylestone high.

    How many fines were issued per school year since 2013, when the guidance came in place, in all 3 schools?

    Published: 7 November 2023