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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1,924 disclosures
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I would like information about your council’s planning in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is most likely to be held by a planning officer or similar. In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
a. Has the Council approved any new*1 or expanded*2 roads or road junctions in its area from 1st January 2020 until 15th August 2024? Please list which ones were accepted. *1 The intention of this question is to understand overall increases in road capacity, rather than recent housing developments. Please exclude minor roads built exclusively to connect new housing to the pre-existing road network. *2 An expanded road or road junction is one that has increased capacity for motor vehicle traffic, not counting bus lanes, cycle infrastructure, or pedestrian infrastructure. Please include roads and junctions where new lanes have been added.
b. Has the council approved or rejected any new or expanded airport runways, terminals, measures to increase passenger numbers or other planning proposals that expand airport capacity in its area since 1st January 2020 until 15th August 2024? Please list which ones were accepted or rejected.
Published: 10 September 2024
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
The number of parking charge notices (PCNs) issued by your authority over the last two years. Specifically, I am requesting the following information:
1 - The total number of penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued.
2 - The total revenue generated from these PCNs.
3 - A breakdown of the locations where each fine was issued.
For clarity, I would appreciate it if the breakdown could include:
The street name or specific location.
The number of PCNs issued at each location.
The revenue generated from each location.
Please provide this data separately for each year so that a year-on-year comparison can be made.
I request that this data be provided in Excel format.
Published: 10 September 2024
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1. The number of illegal products of animal origin (POAO) seized and quantities of each seizure by weight, broken down by the following calendar years: 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 and 2024 to date.
2. The total weight of illegal POAO seized (voluntary and formal), broken down by the following calendar years: 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 and 2024 to date. Please further break down the data by providing: - Location of seizure (i.e restaurant, shop, factory, abattoir) - Type of POAO (i.e meat, fish, diary, etc.)
- Reason for seizures ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLARIFICATION - what the Requester means by illegal products: All products that breach legal requirements. This could be illegal imports, illegal slaughter , products not being what they clam to be etc. My request then goes on to ask for a further breakdown of reasons why the goods are seized. Please then state the reason for the breach.
Published: 9 September 2024
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I would like information about your council’s staff positions in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is most likely to be held by a HR department or similar.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
1a. How many staff does the Council directly employ (excluding contractors or subcontractors, and excluding teachers), that work directly for the Council as opposed to a school, leisure centres or other venture?
1b. How many directly employed staff spend 3 or more days per week (0.6 Full Time Equivalent (FTE)) on implementing the Climate Action Plan or other climate change projects? Please provide a list of all the roles. Please exclude waste management staff unless they are specifically working 3 or more days per week on implementing the Climate Action Plan or other climate change projects.
If you have answered yes to have a biodiversity planning officer and/or a retrofit staff member below, both these staff members can be included in this question even if they are contracted. This is likely to include all staff in your climate/sustainability team, such as Climate Change Officers or similar. This may include full time staff who spend 60% of their time on climate change projects and 40% of their time on other work.
You might include other staff in other departments, such as a procurement officer if they are spending 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE) on writing and implementing a sustainable procurement policy or a planner that is working primarily on low carbon policies for new buildings.
2. Does the council have one or more staff members who work on home energy efficiency retrofitting, such as retrofit officers or project managers across the council area, for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)? This can include both directly employed and contracted staff, provided they work 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE). The work of this officer may include working on any retrofit projects, including council buildings, council homes or private rented or owned households.
Please list any roles that work in this area, including the full time equivalent (FTE) if they work part time. Please include staff members that are shared with other councils and note if they are shared across other areas.
3. How many planning ecologists or equivalent working for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE) does the council employ to scrutinise planning reports and/or applications for improvements to biodiversity and/or Biodiversity Net Gain? This can include both directly employed and contracted staff, provided they work 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE).
Planning ecologists are ecologists that scrutinise planning applications on biodiversity measures. They often sit within the planning department but they can sit within other departments in the council. If the planning ecologist does sit outside the planning department it must be made clear that the planning ecologist spends 3 days or more per week (0.6 FTE) scrutinising planning applications. Please include staff members that are shared with other councils and note if they are shared across other areas.
Published: 9 September 2024
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I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, to make a request for information relating to your organisation’s use of automated decision making and automated decision support tools and systems (ADM tools).
For the purposes of this request, an automated decision is one in which an automated system performs at least part of the decision-making process, including:
- Decision support: where an automated system provides additional information to aid a human decision-maker in their decisions (e.g. a system assesses whether someone poses a risk of housing benefit fraud, and presents that risk score to a decision maker to inform their decision)),
- Streaming or triage: where an automated system determines the type and quality of human judgement involved in a particular case (e.g. a system deems an individual’s application to present a high risk of housing benefit fraud, which means the application is directed to a particular team to review)
- Fully automated: where an automated system takes a decision and action in relation to a person or group without human input (e.g. a system automatically assesses and approves an application) Automation refers to any form of automation including. but not limited to, data matching, profiling, machine learning or any other tools that use software algorithms to generate outputs.
Examples of ADM usage could include, for example, risk assessments in adult social care or social housing decisions. Please provide the following:
1. Copies of any inventory that the authority has of tools, artificial intelligence or software algorithms used to assist in decision-making.
2. If not included in the above, the names of any such tools.
3. Where a process contains ADM or is partially supported by automated tools, any Equality Impact Assessments that have been carried out.
4. Where a process contains ADM or is partially supported by automated tools, any Data Protection Impact Assessments that have been carried out.
Published: 9 September 2024
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
1. Number of licensed dog breeders between 1 Jan 2022 - 31 December 2022.
2. Number of licensed dog breeders between 1 Jan 2023 - 31 December 2023.
3. Please provide the postcode for each dog breeder holding a licence in the calendar year 2023.
4. The number of dog breeding licenses issued between 1 Jan 2023 - 31 December 2023, to those who have bred up to 2 litters in the calendar year (licensed under the business test).
5. The number of dog breeding licenses issued between 1 Jan 2023 - 31 December 23 to those who have bred 3 or 4 litters in the calendar year.
6. The number of dog breeding licenses issued between 1 Jan 2023 - 31 December 23 to those who have bred 5 or more litters in the calendar year.
7. Number of licenses issued to those selling kittens in the course of a business between 1 Jan 2023 - 31 December 2023.
8. Number of times licensing officers have taken action, in relation to dog breeding licensing condition '6.5' - "No dog may be kept for breeding if it can reasonably be expected, on the basis of its genotype, phenotype or state of health that breeding from it could have a detrimental effect on its health or welfare or the health or welfare of its offspring."
8.a. If practical, please provide a summary of action taken under clause 6.5
Published: 9 September 2024
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I would like to know how many noise complaints the Ross On Wye Conservative Club has received from 01/01/2010 until present day please.
Published: 9 September 2024
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I would like information about your council’s climate awareness training in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by the HR department or other departments that organise staff training.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
a. Have all senior management received climate awareness training, including Carbon Literacy or equivalent, before 15th August 2024? Please state the type of training.
We are seeking information for senior managers who have had climate awareness training that has taken place since 1st January 2015 and up until 15th August 2024. We define senior management as including all Chief Executives, deputy Chief Executives and Directors or Heads of Departments, or equivalents, depending on what each council calls them.
b. Have all current councillors in the cabinet or committee chairs received climate awareness training, including Carbon Literacy or equivalent, since being elected from May 2023 or before? Please state the type of training.
We don’t expect councillors who were elected in May 2024, or since, to have already been trained. We are only seeking information for cabinet or committee chairs who have taken climate awareness training that has taken place since 1st January 2015 and up until 15th August 2024.
This could be training certified by the Carbon Literacy Project or another organisation, university or in-house. We want to know the number of people who have attended the training. We don’t need to know the number of staff that have received a certificate of completion or attendance.
Published: 9 September 2024
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1) Please can you provide a copy of the initial contact letter sent to new home educators in your Local Authority?
2)(a) Is the initial contact letter the same whether the parent has de-registered from a school or been home-educating from the start, and you become aware of the family some other way?
2)(b) If they are different please provide a copy of both letters.
3) When was your EHE policy last updated?
4) Were local home educators involved directly in the process of reviewing the EHE policy when it was last updated?
Published: 6 September 2024
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I would like information about your council’s homes and MEES enforcements in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by a housing department or similar.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
1. What is the energy efficiency rating of the council's homes (managed or owned by the council)?
Please provide either a distribution table with the number of council homes for each EPC rating or the percentage of the council’s homes that have received an EPC rating of C or above.
2. What is the number of investigations, enforcement notices and enforcement actions that the council conducted, related to MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) in the 2023/24 financial year?
Please provide a breakdown of the number of investigations and enforcements separately. If only some information is available, please provide this information.
I would prefer to receive information in a machine readable format, such as CSV files for data, where possible.
Published: 5 September 2024