Freedom of information (FOI) releases from Guildford

This is a disclosure log of Guildford 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. Details of Registered Social Landlords

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following details regarding registered social landlords (RSLs) operating within your council's jurisdiction:

     

    1. Full names of all registered social landlords currently operating and recognized within your area.

     

    2. Contact details of these registered social landlords, including but not limited to:

    • Registered office addresses;

    • Contact emails;

    • Phone numbers;

    • Areas of operation within the council's jurisdiction (e.g., wards, districts, or specific zones covered by each RSL where appropriate);

    • Any affiliations or partnerships these registered social landlords have with the local council;

    • A summary of the types of housing services they provide (e.g., supported housing, general needs housing).

    Published: 11 June 2026

  2. Waste Services Vehicle Hire

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

     

    1. Retention Requirements

    Please confirm whether hire vehicles used by Guildford Borough Council are required under Council policy, contract terms, or industry-standard safety protocols to retain CCTV footage for a minimum period.

     

    2. Contractual Obligations

    Does the Council’s contract with the hire company include mandatory evidence-retention clauses for safety-related incidents or routine operational footage?

     

    3. Compliance Failure

    Does the Council consider the absence of this footage to be: a breach of contract, or a failure of compliance, or a failure of the hire company to meet its obligations?

     

    4. Safety-Incident Documentation

    Has the missing footage been recorded internally as a safety-related evidential gap, given that the manoeuvre under review involves reversing from Frimley Road into Henry Court without a banksman?

     

    5. Further Retrieval Attempts

    Please confirm whether any additional steps will betaken to obtain or recover the missing footage, or whether the Council now considers the footage permanently unavailable.

     

    6. Date Range of Missing Footage

    For clarity, please specify the exact dates for which hire-vehicle footage is missing.

    Published: 11 June 2026

  3. Spend on servicing debt each financial year

    I am making a request under the FOIA: In pounds, how much money does the council spend on servicing debt in each financial year?

    Please provide figures for the following financial years:


    2020-21
    2021-22
    2022-23
    2023-24
    2024-25

    How much was the council liable to spend on servicing debt each financial year?

    How much did the council actually spend on servicing debt each financial year?

    Please give answers in pounds.

     

    Published: 11 June 2026

  4. Environmental health FOI

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 relating to environmental health in your local authority.

     

    The information requested is as follows:

     

    1. Staffing:

    1.1: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff (including, if possible, agency or contractor staff working in equivalent roles) in your environmental health dept, unit or team in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    1.2. Of the total FTE in your environmental health team, please indicate, for both 2019/20 and 2025/26, the approximate FTE allocated to the following functions:

    •            Food hygiene/food standards inspections and enforcement

    •            Pest control

    •            Infectious disease control (including outbreak investigation, liaison with health protection bodies, etc.)

     

    Note: I appreciate that some staff work across multiple areas. Where possible please apportion their FTE by time spent (e.g. a 1.0 FTE officer spending half their time on food safety and half on housing should be counted as 0.5 in each category). If exact data is not held, please provide the best available estimate used for internal planning, monitoring or statutory reporting - rather than create a new data set.

     

    2.       Businesses:

    2.1: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) registered in the local authority in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    2.2: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) inspected in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    2.3: Number of registered food businesses that are eligible for inspection, but which have never been inspected.

     

    2.4: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) that failed inspections in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    2.5: Number of enforcement visits to food businesses in the local authority in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    2.6: Number of incidents involving pests (vermin, insects etc) at food businesses in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    2.7: Number of closures of food businesses in 2019/20 and 2025/26 due to enforcement action through a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice.

     

    2.8: Number of prosecutions of food businesses in 2019/20 and 2025/26.

     

    Published: 11 June 2026

  5. Planning committee members & party political affiliations

    Information Request - Please could you supply the following information for the time period May 2020 - May 2026 (could you please supply for years running May-May as this will line up with any changes as a result of elections):

    1. The number of Members on your Planning Committee for each year;

    2. The political composition of the Planning Committee for each year (i.e. how many Members there are for each political party);

    3. The number of planning applications determined at Planning Committee for each year;

    4. The number of each decision type at Planning Committee for each year (grant/refuse/defer);

    5. The number of decisions made in line with the officer recommendation, and the number made against officer recommendation for each year. 

     

    Published: 9 June 2026

  6. council tax arrears

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

    1 . The number of households in council tax arrears for each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025-26.

    2. Of those households who are in council tax arrears please provide the average amount of arrears a household is in for each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025-26.

    3. The total amount of council tax arrears for each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025-26.

    Published: 9 June 2026

  7. Business rates enquiry

    Could you please provide me with your local authority’s complete and most-recently updated list of all business (non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

    - Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the public VOA database reference);
    - Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer);
    - Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town);
    - Occupation / Vacancy status;
    - Date of Occupation / Vacancy;
    - Reliefs and / or exemption categories (classifications) granted or applied.

    Published: 9 June 2026

  8. second home premium

    Between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026:

    1. How much council tax did the council collect through the second home premium? Please give this figure to the nearest £1 and only include the amount specifically collected through the premium element of second home owners' council tax bill.

    2. How many homes did the council collect a second home premium from?

     

    Published: 9 June 2026

  9. Non-Domestic Completion Notices enquiry

    Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 please could I request a list of Non-Domestic Completion Notices served by the authority from 01/03/2026 to the present date.

    I would be grateful if the list could include;

    * The property reference number (otherwise known as billing authority reference number);

    * The address of the property to which the notice relates;

    * The date the notice was served;

    * The completion date recorded;

    * The business or person to whom the notice was served;

    * Address to where the Notice was sent;

    * Whether the notice was issued by the billing authority or a third party.

    Published: 9 June 2026

  10. Taxi information enquiry

    I am submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding currently licensed Hackney Carriage and Private Hire vehicles licensed by Guildford Borough Council.

    I have reviewed the Council’s publicly accessible taxi register and note that certain vehicle information is already available online. However, the register does not appear to include:

    Full date of first registration with the DVLA
    Original vehicle body colour

    I would therefore kindly request this information for all currently licensed Hackney Carriage and Private Hire vehicles.

    The date of first registration is important in order to establish the age of licensed vehicles and to determine whether and when a vehicle becomes subject to mandatory MOT testing requirements. This is a matter of public interest, as members of the public rely on the Council’s licensing regime to ensure that licensed vehicles are safe, roadworthy and appropriately maintained.

    Published: 9 June 2026