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. At Goodrich on the B4229, there are three trenches which cross the road immediately alongside the school. Grid reference 51degrees 52'09,92" N and 2degrees 37'09.98" W

    Please explain who dug these trenches and what has been done to enforce proper reinstatement of them under the provisions of the New Roads and Streetworks Act.

    Published: 2 August 2024

  2. Please can you confirm the vehicle movement numbers for Kington Recycling Centre, Kington, HR5 3HB.

    Please can I have the following information from 1st April 2024 to 31st May 2024 split into individual days:

    1) Please can you confirm how many vehicles were booked into the recycling centre?

    2) Please can you confirm all vehicle movements going in and out, including staff vehicles?

    3) Please can you confirm the percentage of booked appointments which are ‘no shows’ (i.e. book and do not attend)?

    Published: 2 August 2024

  3. I noticed that there is at least one potentially fraudulent ICNIRP safety certificate contained in Herefordshire Council's planning portal, an online facility which displays details of planning applications and approvals.

    A company named "Three UK Limited" - which was dissolved in the year 2015 - has somehow become the signatory for at least one bogus safety certificate (sometimes referred to as a conformity statement) for a 5G telecommunications mast installation.

    Using your best and most honest endeavours, please provide:

    1. A figure for the precise number of ICNIRP safety certificates related to 5G telecommunications mast installations that have been signed off by "Three UK Limited", a company that didn't exist at the time the relevant planning applications were made, and whose declared ICNIRP safety certificates are potentially fraudulent

    2. Actual copies of the ICNIRP safety certificates related to 5G telecommunications mast installations that have been signed off by "Three UK Limited", a company that didn't exist at the time of the planning applications, and are therefore potentially fraudulent

    3. The actual dates of the initial planning applications made for 5G telecommunications mast installations that have been allegedly ICNIRP 'safety certified' by bogus certificates, along with the named street locations and identifying nomenclature.

    4. The time period stated in years, months, weeks and days, between the date of the dissolution of "Three UK Limited" (27th October 2015) and the date of the initial applications made for all of the 5G telecommunications masts concerned, having bogus safety certificates, e.g. "8 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 5 days"

    5. Given that the World Health Organisation classifies radio frequency - such as that transmitted 24/7 by 5G telecommunications masts - as a potential Type 2B carcinogen, that the power output of the affected 5G masts is unknown, that potentially a large number of safety certificates are potentially fraudulent, and that tens of thousands of Herefordshire Council residents have potentially been plunged into an unsafe environment, please provide detailed information explaining how Herefordshire Council is planning to restore council tax payers, voters, their children, and Herefordshire Council's wildlife and domestic pets back to a safe, non-hazardous environment, one which will no longer be a serious, ongoing, potential threat to residents' health and wellbeing?

    Published: 2 August 2024

  4. I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information regarding dark kitchens (also known as ghost kitchens, cloud kitchens, or delivery-only restaurants) in your jurisdiction:

    1. The total number of registered dark kitchens operating in your area for each year from 2019 to present, broken down by year.

    2. The number of reported cases of food-borne illnesses linked to dark kitchens for each year from 2019 to present.

    3. The number of enforcement notices issued to dark kitchens for each year from 2019 to present.

    4. Details of these enforcement notices, including:

    a) The nature of the violations

    b) The dates of issuance

    c) The outcomes of these notices (e.g., resolved, ongoing, closures)

    Published: 1 August 2024

  5. I am writing to request information with regards to the council’s current and future plans for Charging Infrastructure relating to Electric Vehicles, including street cleaning, drain cleaning and waste and recycling collection vehicles at council depots.

    1. Can you please confirm if any of your council depots have the following charges in place at present from the below Charger List?

    Charger List:

    a. AC Charging up to a 22 KW AC charger with Type 2 connection?

    b. DC Charging up to 150 kw using a CCS2 Connector?

    c. AC Charging using up to 43 KW with Type 2 connection?

    d. DC charging up to 250 KW using CCS2 Connector?

    e. AC charging using 22 kw charger with Type 2 connection?

    f. 3 phase connection using either 32 amp or 63-amp power supply?

    g. AC charging using standard Type 2 connection with a 7.5 kw or 22kw power supply?

    h. 13-amp socket via an alternative cable

    1.i. Please can you provide the number of each you have access to.

    2. If not, can you confirm if there are plans in place to have any of these fitted?

    2.i. If so which number(s)?

    2.ii. If so, do you know when?

    Published: 1 August 2024

  6. RE: Tier 1 & 2 Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.

    The information I require is as follows:

    Q1. Local training offer to Providers of supported living, domiciliary care, and Extra Care within your organisation in relation to mandatory training requirements

    Q2. Do you provide or support providers to achieve mandatory training?

    Q3. Your quality requirement relating to supporting adults with learning disability and autism?

    Q4. What learning disability training requirement do you have for staff supporting older adults in the community/extra care housing who may have some degree of learning disability but are not commissioned through learning disability commissioning?

    Published: 1 August 2024

  7. In the last financial year (2023/24), how many incidents did your authority record where traffic wardens - otherwise known as Civil Enforcement Officers - were assaulted by members of the public while carrying out council duties?

    Please give a brief description of the circumstances of each recorded incident.

    Published: 31 July 2024

  8. I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information held by your council on its tech support hubs, which are also known as school local authority support units (SLSUs). These are teams that advise schools on tech matters, like which management information suppliers (MIS) they should switch to. Specifically, I would like to find out the following:

    • Has the local authority’s SLSU received payments from any school MIS suppliers for referring schools to that MIS supplier?

    • If so, how much did it receive in referral payments in calendar years 2022, 2023 and 2024 (as of the most recently recorded date)?

    • The name of the company(ies) the council received payments from?

    • Were these payments made on a case-by-case basis to the local authority by the firm or as part of an annual recurring referral fee?

    • If the payments were made as part of an annual recurring referral fee, it would be appreciated if you could tell me the year and month in which the council started receiving the payments

    • The number of schools that switched MIS suppliers to the one(s) offering referral payments in calendar years 2022, 2023, and 2024 (as of the most recently recorded date) If any of the information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.

    Published: 29 July 2024

  9. I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

    1. For each quarter of each financial year since Q1 of 2018, the average waiting time for an EHCP to be issued in your council area.

    2. The average number of educational psychologists employed centrally by the council each financial year since April 2018.

    3. The total spend of centrally employed EPs each year.

    4. The average number of educational psychologists used by the council that are not centrally employed since April 2018. For example, locum or private EPs, but not exclusively. If you can state which route they were employed down, such as locum or private, I'd be grateful.

    5. The total spend on EPs not employed by the council each year since April 2018. Please can this information be contained in an excel spreadsheet.

    Published: 29 July 2024

  10. I am looking for the name of your Childcare Development Officer, if you currently have someone in this position.

    Published: 29 July 2024