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. Ice Cream Vans in Herefordshire

    1. The number of ice cream vans currently licensed or with consent to street-trade in your council area

    2. Any local bans, restrictions, or specific rules that apply to ice cream vans within your council area. This could include permitted operating hours, restricted zones, or other local policies

    Published: 2 June 2025

  2. BBQ-related fines and enforcement from January 2022 to present

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following:

    Time Period: January 2022 to the most recent available month in 2025

    Breakdown: Monthly, if possible

    1. The number of fines or penalties issued related to the use of BBQs, including:

    - BBQs in prohibited public spaces (e.g., parks)

    - Environmental or safety violations connected to BBQ usage

    Please specify the types of offences (e.g., breach of park by-laws, fire bans, littering) and, if possible, include the location (e.g., park or postcode area).

    Published: 30 May 2025

  3. Conservation Areas, Article 4 and Tree Preservation Order shape files

    I am writing to formally request the provision of following documents for Herefordshire

    1. Most recent Conservation Areas shape file in vector format;

    2. Most recent Article 4 designation areas shape file in vector format;

    3. And most recent Tree Preservation Order shape files in vector format.

    Published: 30 May 2025

  4. Funding for victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse

    Funding for victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse

    I am submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    The request relates to the commissioning responsibilities of Local Authorities with respect to commissioning support for adult and child victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse. We define sexual violence and abuse as any sexual activity that has happened without consent, and includes rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse (including child sexual exploitation), adult sexual exploitation, and sexual harassment.

    Please provide the following information:

    The amount of funding to be provided by the local authority to organisations supporting sexual violence and abuse victim-survivors in your area, for the 25/26 financial year. Please break this down by organisation funded, providing information about the nature of the funding arrangement, and the services to be provided by the organisation supporting victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse, using the attached spreadsheet template.

     

    The total amount of funding to be provided by the local authority to organisations supporting victim-survivors of domestic abuse in your area, for the 25/26 financial year.

    Published: 30 May 2025

  5. Highway design guidelines / standards

    Please find attached a freedom of information request.

    Published: 30 May 2025

  6. Section 106 funds from 2014 to 2024

    Section 106 agreements are financial undertakings developers give to councils made when larger schemes are given planning permission, to pay for improvements for the wider community.

    In November 2021 Herefordshire Council’s deputy leader Liz Harvey told councillors that the council’s Economy and Place Directorate has £6.2 million of unspent section 106 contributions, £4.2 million of which is earmarked for highways and transport. Also 'The Children and Families Directorate meanwhile has a further £2.9 million of unspent developer contributions'.

    To avoid any confusion

    1. Can this council state year on year from 2014 to 2024 the value of unspent 106 contributions?

    2. Can this council state year on year from 2014 to 2024 the value of unspent 106 contributions in the Children and Families Directorate budget?

    3. Can the council state if the amounts are kept in separate accounts and if so who does the council bank with?

    4. Can the council state if the amounts are declared separately or together in the councils yearly accounts?

    5. How can a third party independent entity, perhaps a charity, apply for these funds?

     

    Published: 30 May 2025

  7. Cost to store planters from Hightown

    I understand that the Hereford council have in storage a lot of large planters as in Hightown and the relief road via the rail station but cannot use them as they cannot afford the cost of the plants to put in them and the cost of additional watering.

    Could you therefore clarify this and the cost of these unused planters to the council tax payers.

    Published: 30 May 2025

  8. A named list of the pharmacies commissioned to provide needle and syringe programmes

    As such, I am requesting the following information:

    • A named list (with each individual site address) of the pharmacies commissioned to provide needle and syringe programmes in your local authority.

    Published: 29 May 2025

  9. Landowner issues with active travel path delivery

    Following a book last year on the National Cycle Network, and for a current project I’m working on, on rural active travel paths, I’m interested in active travel schemes in which local authorities and communities have encountered landowner difficulties. I am looking to establish the scale, nationally, of the problem, the length of potential routes these landowners are blocking (including potential routes that would connect to the landowner’s land but cannot proceed over a longer distance or in their entirety without that landowner’s assent). I am not looking to expose individual landowners,  but to understand the scale of the problem.

    Can you tell me:

    1.      The length, in miles, of A) proposed traffic-free paths or greenways being held up because they would need to cross a resistant landowner’s land, and B) the total length of route(s) that would be deliverable were those landowners to assent, i.e. if a proposed path would travel three miles between two towns but

    A), landowner X refuses to agree to a path across 500m of their land (and there’s no feasible alternative),

    B), this makes the whole three miles undeliverable, or so expensive to re-route as to be undeliverable.

    2.      Has your local authority successfully used

    A) the threat (for want of a better word) of, or

    B) implemented, CPO (compulsory purchase order) powers to deliver any traffic-free cycling and/or walking paths since April 2017?

    If so, any details would be appreciated.

    Published: 28 May 2025

  10. Allocation of the fifth and sixth tranche of the Household Support Fund

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act to kindly request information relating to your allocation of the fifth and sixth tranche of the Household Support Fund.

    1. Please provide us with a copy of the management information return you are required to provide to the DWP for both tranche five and six of the Household Support Fund.

    2. Please provide a breakdown of how tranche five and six was spent:

    (a) Targeted Grants (by targeted grants we mean any direct grants/proactive support given to households that did not need to be applied)

    (b) Free School Meal Holiday Vouchers

    (c) Direct applications to the scheme (this means the amount that was open to application, but not through your local welfare assistance scheme)

    (d) Local Welfare Assistance Scheme

    (e) Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations

    (f) Advice Services

    (g) Other (please clarify)

    3. (a) If you accepted applications to this fund how many did you receive?

    (b) How many applications were successful?

    4. Excluding funding given to local welfare schemes or third-party organisations;

    (a) Do you use HSF to provide furniture and appliances (such as cookers, fridges, washing machines etc.)?

    (b) If yes, how much do you spend on furniture and appliance provision in each tranche?

    5. For tranches five and six, how much did you spend on:

    (a) Vouchers

    (b) Cash awards

    (c) Third party organisations

    (d) In kind support

    (e) Other

    If you provide in kind support, what percentage would you estimate is spent on furniture and white goods?

    Of the funds given to third party organisations, how much was given to organisations who provide furniture, white goods and furnishings?

    6. How much do you plan to spend on free school meal vouchers in the holidays in 2025/26?

    If HSF is not renewed/replaced, will you continue with the vouchers in future years? And if so, how will you be funding it?

    7. What additional benefits could your local authority experience if crisis funding was permanent and allocated in tranches of numerous years? Would it aid planning, delivery and efficiency?

    8. If the HSF was to be replaced with a long-term funding pot, what form would you want it to take and how can central government ensure it has the greatest impact on those in poverty?

    Published: 28 May 2025