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. Planning Permission for Self-Build Dwellings

    Description of the information required: For all base periods 1 - 10 and part of 11 (2025-26), please provide:

    - The number of planning permissions (including permission in principle) for dwellings which the Council believes meet the definition of Self-Build housing at section 1 of the Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015.

    - A list of the planning permissions included in the number above including reference number, description of development, site address, number of homes counted.

    - Confirmation as to specifically why each permission has been allocated as self or custom build (e.g. planning condition, obligation, CIL forms).

    - Confirmation as to whether CIL Form 7 (2) has been submitted in relation to each permission or not (Y/N).

    - Confirmation as to the number of people added to the register in each base period referred to above.

    - Confirmation as to the level of demand for self-build and custom build housing within the area (with reference to the above base periods) which for the avoidance of doubt is the aggregate of;

    - The demand for self-build and custom housebuilding arising in the authority's area in the relevant base period.

    - Any demand for self-build and custom housebuilding that arose in the authority's area in an earlier base period and in relation to which -

    (a) The time allowed for complying with the duty to grant sufficient permissions expired during the base period in question.

    (b) The duty to grant sufficient permissions has not been met.

    - Confirmation as to whether the council considers that demand for self-build and custom build housing has been met in relation to each base period (1-10).

    Published: 16 April 2026

  2. Current List of Firework Licence/Registrations

    Request: Firework licence/registration (Cat F1 – Cat F3)

    I am writing to request information, which I believe to be held on your records and suitable for public release under the Freedom of Information Act (2000).

    Please would you forward a list of all holders of a firework licence/registration (Cat F1 – Cat F3) in your area of jurisdiction.

    Published: 16 April 2026

  3. Long-Acting Buprenorphine (Buvidal) Budgets, Policies and Data

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the commissioning and use of long-acting injectable buprenorphine (Buvidal) within your drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services. Please provide the following information for the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25 (and 2025/26 where available):

     

    1. COMMISSIONING AND POLICY

     

    1a. Does your current contract with your drug and alcohol treatment provider(s) include provision for Buvidal (long-acting injectable buprenorphine)? Please provide a yes/no answer for each financial year.

     

    1b. If yes, when was Buvidal first included as a funded treatment option within your commissioned services?

     

    1c. Does your council have a written policy, clinical pathway, or formulary decision regarding Buvidal? If so, please provide a copy or summary.

     

    2. EXPENDITURE

     

    2a. What was the total expenditure on Buvidal within your commissioned drug and alcohol treatment services in each financial year?

     

    2b. From which budget line(s) was this expenditure drawn (e.g. Public Health Grant, SSMTRG, DATRIG, or other)?

     

    3. PATIENT NUMBERS

     

    3a. How many patients were initiated on Buvidal in each financial year?

     

    3b. What proportion of your total opioid substitution therapy (OST) caseload does this represent?

     

    4. BARRIERS AND DECISION-MAKING

     

    4a. Has your council or your commissioned provider(s) conducted any formal review or assessment of Buvidal as a treatment option? If so, please provide any written outputs from this review.

     

    4b. Are there any documented reasons why Buvidal has not been commissioned or expanded, if applicable?

     

    Published: 16 April 2026

  4. Council Funding Gap 2027/28

    Despite routinely carrying out important and vital work to support their communities, local councils are facing significant funding challenges.

    We are carrying out a Freedom of Information request to try and ascertain the scale of the funding challenge that local councils are facing in the medium-term future. Please can you answer the following questions:

    1. What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2027/28?

    2. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2027/28?

    3. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2028/29 (the total combined predicted funding gap of the financial years 2027/28 and 2028/29)?

    4. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2028/29?

    Published: 16 April 2026

  5. Temporary Accommodation 2015-2025

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

    1. Use of Temporary Accommodation

    For each of the following calendar years – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 – please provide:

    a. The total number of temporary accommodation placements or bookings made

    b. Of these, the total number of placements or bookings made with private providers

    c. The total number of private providers of temporary accommodation that the council made payments to

    d. The total amount paid by the council to private providers of temporary accommodation

    2. Costs

    For the calendar year 2025, please provide:

    a. The average monthly cost of temporary accommodation per person, and please provide this separately for:

    · Accommodation provided by private sector providers

    · Accommodation owned or managed by the council

    b. The average monthly amount charged to residents for utilities and/or service charges in private sector temporary accommodation, where these costs are charged in addition to the accommodation cost covered by the local authority.

    3. Largest Private Providers

    Please provide the following information for the three private providers that received the highest total payments from the council for temporary accommodation in 2025:

    · Provider name

    · Total amount paid to each provider

    · The number of accommodation sites operated by each provider

    · A breakdown of the types of accommodation used (for example, number of hostel placements, B&B placements, nightly paid accommodation, or other categories, where recorded)

    · The average monthly charge per placement (or equivalent measure of cost) for each provider

    Please provide your answers in CSV format.

    Published: 15 April 2026

  6. Planning enforcement in relation to protected trees.

    1. Starting on 01 January 2024, how many planning enforcement investigations have you undertaken in respect of unauthorised tree works comprising:

    a) Trees protected by a Tree Preservation Order;

    b) Trees growing within a conservation area?

    2. Of these, how many have resulted in stop notices being issued or other enforcement action (including enforcement warning notices) being taken?

    3. How many have resulted in a prosecution?

    4. How many of these prosecutions have been successful?

    Published: 15 April 2026

  7. Peterchurch Potholes and Fairfield School Circuit- Repairment Costs over the past 5 Years

    CONTEXT

    I am sorry to bother you, but I was wondering when the significant potholes on the Fairfield School route (Fairfield to Nags Head) would be repaired although a resurface is long overdue.

    In February I was advised by Balfour Beatty that the Fairfield School to Nagshead section was scheduled for March ... The potholes were marked for repair in January, but long since washed off...

    Similarly I was informed by Balfour, that the farm track "Hinton Court Lane" was scheduled for the 8 potholes to be repaired in first 2 weeks of April, but whilst the potholes were marked recently those marking have now gone...

    REQUEST

    It would be interesting to know under the Freedom of Information Act the cost of repairing the farm track potholes over the past 5 years, and of the school circuit.

    Are you able to advise that, or advise if not possible as it's lumped together as road repairs?

    Published: 15 April 2026

  8. Pets in Temporary / Emergency Accommodation

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

    1. Does your council accommodate pets (excluding guide dogs and trained assistance animals) in council provided / arranged temporary accommodation?

    2. Does your council accommodate pets (excluding guide dogs and trained assistance animals) in council provided / arranged emergency accommodation?

    3. Are your responses to questions one and two formalised council policies?

    4. Does your council work with any partners on the provision of pet-friendly temporary or emergency accommodation, OR has your council worked with any partners on the provision of pet-friendly temporary or emergency accommodation at any point since 1st January 2023 and now?

    5. Does your council (at the time of writing) work with AT LEAST ONE temporary or emergency accommodation provider that will accept pets (not taking into account whether they are available / have vacancies at the present time)?

    Published: 15 April 2026

  9. Unpaid PCN bailiff referrals

    The number of bailiff referrals made by your council for unpaid Penalty Charge Notices / PCNs (for parking illegally, breaking moving traffic rules or driving in a bus lane) in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

    Please provide separate figures for each individual calendar year e.g. 768 bailiff referrals made for unpaid PCNs in 2021, 423 bailiff referrals made for unpaid PCNs in 2025, etc.

    Please kindly respond within 20 working days and provide the information in pdf form.

    Published: 14 April 2026

  10. Waiting periods for permanently excluded children from mainstream secondary schools, 2023/24

    Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. For the academic year 2023/24, in your local authority, for children permanently excluded from mainstream secondary schools:

    1. What was the mean number of school days a child waited between the date of permanent exclusion and the start date at a new education placement?

    1. What was the maximum (longest) number of school days a child waited between the date of permanent exclusion and the start date at a new education placement?

    1. For how many of these permanently excluded children, did you meet the statutory duty to provide suitable full-time education by the sixth school day following permanent exclusion?

    If any part of this request is unclear, please could you interpret it in the most reasonable way and provide the available information? Thank you very much. I would prefer to receive the response in electronic format please.

    Published: 14 April 2026