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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709 disclosures

  1. Council officers working outside of the United Kingdom

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    This is an information request relating to council officers being given permission to work from outside the United Kingdom. By United Kingdom, I refer to Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, not including the crown dependencies.

    Please include the following information, for the 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26 financial years:

    * The number of staff, per year, given permission to work from abroad.

    * For each member of staff granted permission, please provide:

    * their pay band,

    &

    * the country they have been allowed to work from,

    &

    * the length of time that they have been allowed to work for and,

    &

    * the dates they were allowed to work from abroad.

    * The longest time a member of staff has been granted permission to work from abroad and what country they went to.

    * The highest ranking officer that was allowed to work from abroad.

    * The current number of people working from abroad and where they are.

    Published: 7 September 2026

  2. Litter reports in parks

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    Please treat this as a request for recorded information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, or the equivalent environmental information legislation applicable to your authority.

    For the period 1 January 2021 to 31 July 2026 inclusive, please provide the number of reports or service requests received concerning litter or rubbish in council-owned or council-managed parks and public open spaces.

    Please provide the figures broken down by individual park/site and calendar year, ideally in the following format:
    Park/site name | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 1 Jan–31 Jul 2026

    Where your system already records whether the report relates specifically to a playground or children's play area, please also indicate this or provide the number of those reports separately.

    Please use the park/site name and categories as they are recorded in your existing system. I am not asking the council to manually review free-text descriptions to determine whether an incident occurred within a playground.

    Published: 7 September 2026

  3. Local authority assets enquiry

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    * The number and total value of local authority assets that have been sold in each of the last 15 calendar years (2010 to 2025 inclusive), setting out clearly which types of asset are included and splitting them by category or type. Please separate out social housing asset sales and community asset transfers, so these can be identified distinctly from other sales.

    * The stock of local authority assets currently held, by number and value, setting out clearly which types of asset are included and splitting them by type where possible. Please again separate social housing, and any community assets that are due to be transferred.

    * The number of local authority assets that have been transferred into community ownership in each of the last 15 calendar years (2010 to 2025 inclusive).

    Published: 7 September 2026

  4. Off-street parking places order for Portsmouth Road Car Park, Guilford

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    I would like to request a copy of the off-street parking places order for Portsmouth Road Car Park, Guilford. Please could this be provided in PDF format, with searchable / selectable text, and inclusive of all schedules.

    Please note, this request is for the traffic order in its entirety, not only the part of the order relevant to the location mentioned above. Please do not provide any sort of "extract" that is anything less than the full document.

    Please note this is a request for the sealed / formally enacted order, please do not provide any informal "working copy". If the order has been amended multiple times by later orders, please provide the sealed copy of the original order as enacted, plus the sealed version of all amending orders (again with searchable / selectable text, and inclusive of all schedules).

    Published: 7 September 2026

  5. Parking Penalty Charge Notices Paid by the Council

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    Please provide the following information relating to parking fines/Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) paid using council funds:

    1. The total number of parking fines/PCNs paid by the council during the 2025/26 financial year.
    2. The total cost of those fines.
    3. The total number of parking fines/PCNs paid by the council in the current financial year to date.
    4. The total cost of those fines.

    This request includes fines incurred by employees, agency staff, contractors, or council vehicles, where the payment was made from council funds.

    Published: 7 September 2026

  6. Public litter bins – current provision and changes

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    1. The current number of public litter bins or combined litter/recycling bins for which the authority is responsible.

    Where your records permit, please split this between:
    - streets/highways and other public realm;
    - parks/open spaces;
    - council housing estates; and
    - other locations.

    Please exclude household or communal residential refuse/recycling containers.

    2. Your current electronic asset list/register for these bins, containing the following existing fields where held:
    - asset ID;
    - location, coordinates and/or postcode;
    - location/category type;
    - bin type and/or capacity;
    - planned emptying/service frequency; and
    - installation date.

    I am requesting an export of existing recorded fields only. Please do not undertake a manual exercise to complete fields which are not already recorded.

    3. For each of:
    - 2024/25;
    - 2025/26; and
    - 2026/27 to the date of this request,

    the number of public litter bins:
    - newly installed; and
    - permanently removed.

    Published: 7 September 2026

  7. CCTV From Chinese Manufacturers

    I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority:

    Please can you tell me how many CCTV cameras the council operates and how many of these are produced by Chinese companies. Please can you show this as two figures.

    Please also provide the total number of the council’s CCTV cameras that use either live or retrospective facial recognition and how many of these are produced by Chinese companies.

    Published: 7 September 2026

  8. Queen Elizabeth Park

    Please treat this as a request for information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

    To the extent that any requested information does not constitute environmental information, please treat that part under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    I am undertaking postgraduate dissertation research into the implementation and long-term monitoring of residential travel plans. The development below was included as a case study in the Department for Transport publication Making Residential Travel Plans Work: Guidelines for New Development.

    Development: Queen Elizabeth Park, Guildford, on the former Guildford Barracks site at Stoughton.

    Original developers: Laing Homes and Linden Homes.

    Please confirm whether the Council has ever received any travel-plan monitoring report, review, monitoring return, survey report or comparable submission for this development, and provide the following recorded information:

    1. Copies of every residential, green or sustainable travel-plan monitoring report, review report or monitoring return received in connection with the development.

    2. Copies of associated appendices, survey results and supporting datasets, including resident travel surveys, modal-split information, traffic or parking surveys, public-transport information, car-club data and monitoring of walking or cycling.

    3. Records showing the required or anticipated submission date, date received, submitting organisation, monitoring period, Council review or acceptance, and any revisions or additional measures required.

    4. Relevant correspondence, officer notes, reports or minutes concerning submission or non-submission, performance against targets, amendments, remedial measures, enforcement, or any decision to vary, suspend or end the monitoring requirement.

    5. Any final, closure or handover report recording transfer of responsibility from the developer or consultant to a management company, community body, residents’ organisation or another party.

    6. If relevant records were destroyed or disposed of, records showing what was destroyed, when, under which retention or disposal rule, and whether copies were transferred elsewhere.

    Please include the first monitoring report prepared when the development reached approximately 75% occupation and every subsequent annual report or return.

    Please also include the underlying resident travel surveys, modal-split calculations and correspondence concerning the proportions of single-occupancy car journeys and total car travel.

    As the local planning authority, please search the planning application and obligation files, development-management records, enforcement records and any archived case files.

    Please search current and archived records held by planning or development management, transport or highways, planning enforcement, legal or Section 106 teams, information management and any relevant predecessor-authority or off-site archive.

    Published: 3 September 2026

  9. Enfranchisement receipts

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting the following information:

    1. The total monetary value (£) of enfranchisement receipts from residential lease extensions and freehold transfers where marriage value was paid (i.e. on residential properties where the council is the freeholder and the tenant’s lease had an unexpired term of less than 80 years prior to purchase) accrued by Guildford Borough Council from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2026.

    2. What percentage of these receipts (1) were directed into the Housing Revenue Account.

    Published: 3 September 2026

  10. Solar panels on council properties

    This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I am seeking information about the installation of solar panels on council homes.

    1. Can you tell me how many residential council homes you own and how many of them have solar panels installed?

    2. Can you also tell me how many council homes had solar panels installed in each of the last five financial years (so 21/22, 22/23, 23/24, 24/25 and 25/26)?

    Published: 3 September 2026