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. Contracts between Savills and GBC

    Please disclose how many contracts GBC has entered into in each of the discrete periods listed above ie In the period since 1 Jan 2018 From 1 Jan 2017 to 1 Jan 2018 From 1 jan 2016 to 1 jan 2017 From 1 jan 2015 to 1 Jan 2016 Please then summarise the type of contract eg annual /multi year retainer, time and materials or fixed price. Please then summarise the services supplied to be supplied. Please supply the follow information in respect of each contract between GBC and any part of the Savills plc group: 1. The parties/entities that have contracted ie the part of GBC if not the Council itself that is party to the contract and the part of Savills ie the branch or subsidiary if not Savills' top company.

    2. The date on which each contact was signed

    3. A copy of the main contracts

    4. The timescale over which the contract was to be performed

    5. The product or service that Savills is /was contracted to supply.

    6. The value of any invoices paid by GBC to any part of Savills

    7. Details of any review undertaken by GBC to consider potential conflicts of interest prior to entering into the contract.

    8. Details of any governance procedures / scrutiny undertaken prior to making these contracts

    Published: 23 July 2019

  2. Refuse Waste - percentage figures

    On your website the figure of 93% of all refuse waste collected in Surrey in the 2016-2017 was diverted from landfill and used for energy from waste. Are the figures for 2017-18 available please? Also do you have a split between residential and business for these figures.

    Published: 22 July 2019

  3. Leasehold Tender Information

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Councils Leasehold/housing management department:

    1. Total number of residential private dwellings the council is Freeholder for and which have been sold on a leasehold basis.

    2. The insurance arrangements of these dwellings including Inception/Renewal Date, Expiry date of any Long Term Undertaking/Agreements in place

    3. Is the insurance incorporated within the council main insurance program or are they 'ring fenced' as a separate portfolio?

    Published: 22 July 2019

  4. Council Land Sales and Leases

    Please could you provide a list in spreadsheet format of all sales and leases of Council owned land, including amenity land or land transferred or leased for nil consideration since 1st January 2015.

    With each transaction, please provide:

    (a) The address including postcode

    (b) The total area of land sold/leased

    (c) The sale price realised or rent receivable

    (d) The effective date of the transaction

    (e) The use of the land at the time of the sale.

    (f) Confirm if the land was sold on the open market

    Published: 22 July 2019

  5. Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need Assessment

    1. What is the need identified by your authority's Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need Assessment (GTANA) for new pitches, and what period does this GTANA cover?

    2. What is the figure identified by your authority for its up to date 5 year 'supply of specific deliverable sites' and when was this last reviewed?

    3. Please provide copies of the relevant extract of your authority's Local Plan and/or any other documentation in which the up to date 5 year 'supply of specific deliverable sites' is identified.

    Published: 17 July 2019

  6. Current (5-year) Housing Land Supply position and Local Plan status

    I am writing to you regarding your current (5-year) housing land supply position and in regard to your current local plan (status):

    1) a copy of your current 'five year housing land supply' position statement. If you cannot provide a current housing land supply position statement, please provide the most recent document illustrating your district's housing land supply position.

    2) a copy of, or hyperlink, to your current (adopted) local plan and the date it was adopted.

    3) The same information for any Site Allocations, Development Management Policy Plan, or similar "Local Plan part 2" document which forms part of the "local plan" alongside a core strategy (or similar).

    4) If your plan is more than 5 years old, please let me know if this plan has been reviewed and is therefore seen as "up-to-date".

    5) If your plan period has ended, or if the plan is more than five years old and has not been reviewed, please let me know if you are currently working on a plan review and/or if you are still using the policies of the plan, which already passed its plan period, for the determination of planning applications.

    Published: 12 July 2019

  7. Guildford Local Plan

    "It is requested the council disclose all letters, emails and other correspondence both internally within the council and with other external bodies in relation to this matter. This request is also made under Freedom of Information rights." Subsequently narrowed down to: "all internal and external (GBC or external bodies/consultants): emails, information, reports, documents, opinion related to Julian Woods v Secretary of State and Gravesham Borough Council."

    Published: 11 July 2019

  8. Planning Enforcement organisational structure

    Please could you supply me with an organisational structure chart for the Planning Department and Planning Enforcement Team showing how many employees there are in each team, the reporting lines for each team and the names of the team members.

    Published: 11 July 2019

  9. Adaptations

    Please provide the information in the space provided below at the end of each question & please add the time period for questions a and b INFORMATION BEING REQUESTED 1/ The number of DFG / disabled grant funded major bathroom adaptations* that were carried out by your council in:- a) the last or the most recent 12 months you have data for. ANSWER THIS WAS FOR THE TIME PERIOD b) the previous 12 months. ANSWER THIS WAS FOR THE TIME PERIOD. Finally please also confirm:- c) the number of DFG / disabled grant funded major bathroom adaptations* that your council has budgeted for, or plan / expect to make in the next 12 months. ANSWER (*Classed as being a bathroom adaptation that included the removal and replacement of a bath with a showering facility)

    Published: 11 July 2019

  10. No further action enforcement complaints 2016

    I would like to know the total number of investigations carried out by the Planning Enforcement Team in 2016 and out of that total the number of instances where "no further action taken" was the decision made by the investigating officer even though a breach of planning regulations had taken place.

    Published: 10 July 2019