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.

1,821 disclosures

1. Predicted funding gap

   I would like to send a freedom of information request asking:

   1) What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of this financial year

   2) What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of this financial year?

   Published: 18 December 2023

2. Placements and spending for older person’s care home services

   Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information regarding placements and spending for older person's care home services. Please provide answers on the attached accompanying Excel spreadsheet.

   Please report all fees without Funded Nursing Contribution (FNC).

   1. Who within the Local Authority, has the commissioning responsibility for care home placements for older people (aged 65+)? Please provide their:

   a. Name

   b. Job title

   c. Telephone number

   d. Email address

   2. Please provide the gross total expenditure on older person's (age 65+) services for financial year 2022/23 (actual) and financial year 2023/24 (projected):

   a. Gross total expenditure on older person's (65+) services

   b. Gross total expenditure on residential home placements (65+)

   c. Gross total expenditure on nursing home placements (65+)

   d. Gross total expenditure on domiciliary care/home care (65+)

   For question 2a, please provide total spend on personal social services for people aged 65+. This will include spend on residential, nursing, and domiciliary care (2b, 2c, and 2d) as well as other social care for older people such as day services, etc.

   3. Please provide figures for the total number of older people (age 65+) that the council has placed in the financial year 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 (projected) and funded in:

   a. Residential care

   b. Residential dementia care

   c. Nursing care

   d. Nursing dementia care

   e. Domiciliary care/home care

   4. Please provide the average (mean) weekly fees paid for care home placements for older people (aged 65+) in financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24:

   a. Older person's residential

   b. Older person's residential dementia

   c. Older person's nursing

   d. Older person's nursing dementia

   5. Please provide the set or banded weekly fees paid for care home placements for older people (aged 65+) in financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24:

   a. Older person's residential

   b. Older person's residential dementia

   c. Older person's nursing

   d. Older person's nursing dementia

   Published: 18 December 2023

3. Japanese Knotweed info for last five years

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

   Please may you provide me with an extensive list of addresses whereas a council you have treated Japanese Knotweed or have Japanese Knotweed treatment and control measures in place within the last 5 years.

   Please provide the information in the form of a spreadsheet or word document.

   Published: 14 December 2023

4. Car Park Orders for Mill Street Car Park, Kington

   Clarification: This is only for Orders which are in force today and penalty notices from 1st April 1998.

   1) Please supply details of the Parking Order for Mill Street Car Park, Kington:

   a) A copy of the Order as made, dimensions of places, signs to be displayed for Electric Vehicles only, and for Disabled spaces.

   b) When the markings were last painted.

   c) When the space markings were last checked for legibility.

   d) When all earlier non-applicable markings were permanently removed.

   2) Please provide statistics of all penalty notices, as held, issued for:

   a) General car parking spaces

   b) Electric vehicles spaces used by non-electric vehicles

   c) Disabled spaces by failure to display a blue badge

   Published: 14 December 2023

5. Commuted sums and maintenance sums for S38 and S278 works

   I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your highways/development control department. Please may you provide me with:

   1. The method used by your organisation to calculate commuted sums for Section 38 and Section 278 works (just the method used, not the rates).

   2. The commuted sum maintenance term for structural and non-structural elements of Section 38 and Section 278 works.

   Published: 14 December 2023

6. Councils’ policy for addressing poor housing conditions in residential mobile (park) homes

   Please will you provide me with your councils' policy for addressing poor housing conditions in residential mobile (park) homes. If you do not have a policy, please provide details of the process or procedure used to assess and address poor housing standards in residential mobile homes in your area.

   It will be much appreciated if you could supply this information by email, providing the policy or procedure in PDF format where possible.

   Published: 13 December 2023

7. Balance of unspent and uncommitted monies during the period 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2015 relating to s106

   I am researching the consequences of planning, including making financial payments as per the agreed and signed S106 document.

   I am particularly interested in the balance of unspent and uncommitted monies during the period from January 1st 2011 up to and including December 31st 2015.

   Please can you give the planning reference and the relevant balance.

   Published: 13 December 2023

8. Since Jan 1st 2020 how many km of bicycle lanes have Herefordshire Council completed/removed

   Since Jan 1st 2020 how many kilometers of bicycle lanes has the council completed?

   How many kilometers have been removed?

   And I would like the answers split into segregated and cycle lane lengths.

   For clarification:

   By "segregated" I mean cycle paths that have physical barriers between them and other road users. So lanes edged with bollards or raised concrete blocks.

   "cycle lanes" is everything else including shared paths.

   Published: 13 December 2023

9. Pothole reports and costs in 2020-2023

   Please could you answer the following questions in relation to potholes:

   1. Total no. of potholes reported in your council area for the years

   (i) 2020,

   (ii) 2021,

   (iii) 2022, and

   (iv) 2023 to date.

   2. Total no. of potholes fixed in your council area for the years

   (i) 2020,

   (ii) 2021,

   (iii) 2022, and

   (iv) 2023 to date.

   3. Total amount made in claims for compensation due to pothole damage broken down by financial year for the years

   (i) 2020/21,

   (ii) 2021/22,

   (iii) 2022/23, and

   (iv) 2023/24 to date.

   4. Total amount paid out in claims for compensation due to pothole damage broken down by financial year for the years

   (i) 2020/21,

   (ii) 2021/22,

   (iii) 2022/23, and

   (iv) 2023/24 to date.

   5. The road name in your area which has received the most pothole reports over the past 5 years, and the total amount of reports made.

   Published: 12 December 2023

10. Section 137 Notices issued to landowners

    Will you please confirm that the Council has not written to other landowners requiring hedges be cut under Section 137 of the Highways Act when they have failed to keep their hedges from causing inconvenience.

    Since I imagine that a county council will treat all matters in accordance with the Nolan Principles then, technically, it shouldn't matter where in the county you are applying this principle and, unless there has been a recent change of policy which you have failed to disclose, the timeframe should be equally irrelevant.

    However, if it makes the request easier then I am happy to restrict the timeframe to the last three years.

    Published: 12 December 2023