Disclosure Log - July 2022

1. During the month of April 2022, how many council employees were working from home, and what percentage of the office based workforce does this represent? 

2. Between 1st and 30th April 2022, how many desk bookings were made across the council's office buildings and, on average, how many desk bookings were there a day during this month? 

3. How many desks were available for use in the month April 2022 across the council's office buildings? 

4. What was the maximum number of office staff who could theoretically work in the office on any given day in April 2022? 

5. What was the total number of office staff who worked in your council's offices each day prior to the pandemic? (Applicant clarified that any time period in 2019 that works for the Council would be acceptable)

1. The Council does not hold this information. Many of its staff have the ability to work remotely. Some are unable, either because of their circumstances or because of the nature of their role and so work 100% of the time from the office/depot and some work almost 100% of the time remotely

The majority of staff are adopting a hybrid approach by working remotely for part of the week and within the office for the remainder.  However, it is not possible to say how many of our staff worked from home during the whole of April because it will have varied from day to day and it is not recorded

2. We don’t operate a system of desk bookings

3. 161

4. 161

5. 11 working from home/clocking in virtually between 03/06/2019 - 07/06/2019

Details of any pre planning details submitted on the site of West Yelland Farm, Yelland Barnstaple Devon, EX31 3HE

Information fully withheld as a disclosure would adversely affect intellectual property rights, the confidentiality of the proceedings of that public authority where such confidentiality is provided by law and would undermine the confidentiality of the pre-application proceedings and lastly would adversely affect the confidentiality of commercial information where it is provided by law to protect a legitimate economic interest

Please provide a list (in Excel format) of all planning applications submitted on or after 2nd October 2013 where no decision was made within 26 weeks (unless a longer period has/had been agreed in writing between the applicant and the Local Authority) and no refund of fees has been made to date. The information should be provided in the following columns: 

• Planning application reference

• Applicant name

• Planning application date

• Planning application fee paid (£)

• Decision due date

• Actual decision date

• Extension of time/Planning performance agreed (Y/N)

Applicant provided with the information in Excel format, which is available upon request

05.07.22

Intranet Questions 

1. How many people are employed by your organisation, including full time and part time?

2. What is your current intranet solution? (Sharepoint, Wordpress, Interact, Invotra, Oak etc)

3. How long have you been using this intranet solution?

4. When is your intranet contract up for renewal?

5. What is your annual intranet budget?

6. What is your procurement process? Please can you include any portals used to list tenders and/or any suppliers/consultants used to procure

7. Do you share intranet/IT services with other organisations, if so who?

8. Which team and/or individual(s) are responsible for managing your intranet internally?

9. Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?

10. Which team and/or individual(s) are responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the organisation?

11. Is your Active Directory hosted on premise, or in the cloud?

12. Could you provide us with a link to your Digital Workplace Strategy? 

Website / Accessibility Questions 

1. What software are you currently using for your website?

2. What team/individual is responsible for maintaining your website?

3. Do you work with an external supplier to maintain your website, if so when does your contract expire?

4. When did you last conduct an accessibility audit against your public website?

5. What team/individual is responsible for digital accessibility across your public facing services?

6. What is your budget for digital accessibility?

7. What is your annual marketing/communications budget for creating content for residents?

8. Do you work with external marketing/communications suppliers to create content for your public facing services?

9. When was the last time you conducted a content audit on your website to remove outdated content?

Intranet Questions:

1. Headcount is 426, 341 Full-time staff, 85 Part-time

2. Umbraco

3. 2014

4. Not Applicable as the Council’s Intranet is built and maintained in-house, however the Council does have an annual contract for some software support for the open source CMS

5. CMS software support contract, £4,375 per annum

6. This information is published on the Council’s Procurement page on its website  

7. The Council provides some ICT services for Ilfracombe Town Council, South Molton Town Council and Lynton Town Council and also have a shared Building Control service with Mid Devon Council

8. The Customer Services and Communications teams mange the intranet content, and the ICT team manage the technical aspects

9. Yes, Outlook, Skype/Teams. Other elements are being reviewed. We use Word, Excel etc but are still using the client versions

10. Not Applicable

11. On premises, synced to Azure AD

12.The Council does not hold a Digital Workplace Strategy 

Website/Accessibility: 

1. Umbraco

2. The Customer Services and Communications teams mange the intranet content, and the ICT team manage the technical aspects

3. The website is maintained by internal ICT, but do have a support contract for external support/advice. This contract expires in October 2022

4. Ongoing – Latest Sitemorse report was Monday 04/07/22

5. ICT and Communications teams

6. The Council’s no longer has a budget for this, once its accessibility project came to an end the last of the budget was taken away

7. There is no specific budget held

8. Very rarely for one off pieces of work as when necessary

9. The Council has not completed a formal audit to date, the onus is placed on web editors throughout the authority to ensure content is relevant and up to date

06.07.22

For the most recent year for which the Council holds the data, please provide the following information in electronic format:

1. How many Community Protection Notices (CPNs) have been issued by the council, or individuals acting on behalf of the council? Please break this data down into each activity for which the CPN was issued

2. How many CPNs were subsequently violated, broken down by activity as above

3. What action was taken as a result of this violation, broken down by activity. If fines were issued, please provide the total value of fines issued

The Council issued seven Community Protection Notices during 22021/22 which is the most recent year the information is held

1 - Not to enter Primark, High Street, Barnstaple / not to enter Premier, Bear Street, Barnstaple / not to act in a manner which is intimidating or threatening to any person / not to shout or swear at any member of the public. - Worksheet closed, to be reopened if evidence of breaches

2. Individual letting their dog out front of their house to roam around the surrounding area. - Case still ongoing

3. Not to be drunk in a public place / Not to remain or loiter at the benches outside the Corner House or opposite Stags / Not to consume alcohol or be in possession of any unsealed or open container of alcohol in a public place within the PSPO area, etc. Prosecuted and convicted in court

4. Clear accumulation from yard and secure door against unauthorised entry by 20 Jan 2022 and sustain good management for 24 months. - Complied

5. (1) Clear all dog faeces and rubbish from all exterior areas of address. (2) for a period of 12 months thereafter keep the areas clear of dog faeces and rubbish, and keep them in a clean and hygienic condition. - Complied

6. Failure to keep the outdoor areas at home clear of a build-up of rubbish and discarded items. - Complied

7. Not to consume alcohol or be in possession of any unsealed or open container of alcohol in a public place within any PSPO area in North Devon District Council's area / Not to be drunk in a public place. - Case still ongoing

05.07.22

Provision of the whole planning application including any officer notes of 75203 where held

Information provided to applicant, apart from the information that is already published via the planning tracker for the application

12.07.22

Copies of all internal correspondence within NDDC planning department which contains my name or which contains planning references 75324, 74938 and 74939

Applicant provided with all of the information that falls within the scope of their request apart from item which was partially redacted (personal data of a third party)

Applicant directed to the Council’s Data Protection Team to make a separate request for their own personal data under a Subject Access Request

04.07.22

The number (s) of staff member (s), if any, that have been dismissed in light of ill health caused by Long Covid from 2020 to present

The Council confirms that it has not dismissed any staff in light of ill health caused by Long Covid from 2020 to date of response, 4 July 2022

07.07.22

The total number of fly tipping fines served to businesses or commercial entities during the following periods: 

1st June 2021 - 1st June 2022

1st June 2020- 1st June 2021

1st June 2019- 1st June 2020 

Please provide the following details for each data point: 

- Total cost of fine

- Sector of business or commercial entity/name of the business

The applicant was advised that the Council has not issued any fines (Fixed Penalty Notices) on any businesses or commercial entities in any of the requested periods as set out in the request

For the years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22:

1. How many statutory nuisance complaints did your council receive for noise caused by neighbours?

1. 2019/20 = 47

    2020/21 = 67

    2021/22 = 68

2. 2019/20 = 0

    2020/21 = 0

1. How many planning applications and appeals in the last 5 years (2018 - 2022) have been delayed due to LPA staff holiday and work load, please include COVID and Furloughed staff?

2. How many Case Officers and external consultants have missed deadlines due to working from home and not having the correct equipment?

3. How many appeals have been sent to an external consultant and which consultants have been used?

4. What criteria is used to determine that an external consultant is engaged and what criteria is used to select the consultant?

5. How many times has a case officer or external consultant missed a deadline, due to failure of following procedure?

1. No data available 

2. No data available but equipment provided by NDC to enable staff to work remotely 

3. Over the last 5 years we have used 2 external Planning Consultants to deal with Planning/Enforcement Appeals on our behalf. We have employed Peter Rowan of Rowan Edwards – Town Planning & Architecture (9 no. Planning Appeals & 1 no. Enforcement Appeal)) & Michael Muston, Muston Planning (1 no. application) 

4. An external consultant may be appointed to deal with a Planning or Enforcement Appeal on our behalf in instances where: 

• the original Planning Officer dealing with the case has left the Authority

• where the Planning Officer’s recommendation is overturned by the elected Members and the matter

• workloads are such that NDC Planning Officers do not have capacity to deal with the appeal

Criteria re selection of Planning Consultant

• from outside the NDC area

• does not submit applications/pre-apps or otherwise engage with the Planning Authority (resulting in a conflict of interest)

• availability and capacity to deal with the case on our behalf 

5. No data available

Copies of the key correspondences that passed to date since May 2017 between the acting executive and senior officers of the North Devon Council including cabinet members and the Biosphere coordination/ management team where such correspondences discuss or make decisions in relation to the Natural Capital/ Asset model and Payment-for-Ecosystems Services mechanisms being considered, developed or deployed within the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 

I also require copies of the email correspondences and discussions which took place between Andy Bell, senior officers and cabinet members, in relation to the decision to approve a biosphere application 

To include any emails or text messages (from any instant messaging system, e g, Twitter, Jabber, etc). In the case of email I require the correspondences forwarded as a compressed attachment, with full mail headers intact

Applicant advised that the Council’s ICT department has carried out a search to identify if any information is held containing the following: 

Natural Capital (c:s) Natural Asset (c:s) ecosystems services(c:c)(received=2017-04-30..2022-06-06) 

The status of that search identifies that the Council does hold information that falls under search conditions as set out above. Applicant provided with the following result of the search: 

3,548 items(s) (5.37 GB)

29,096 unindexed items, 44.19 GB

634 mailboxes 

In discharge of its obligation under section 1(1)(b), the Council is unable to confirm as to whether it holds any information that is specific to the information the applicant seeks, as described in the request. In order to be able to do this it would require a manual search through all of the items of information as identified in the search result above to identify, extract and collate anything that falls under the remit of the request 

Section 12 of the Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for Local Authorities is set at £450 by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours at £25 per hour in determining whether the Council holds the information, locating, retrieving and collating the information 

Whilst it is noted that the number of items has reduced from 17,354 (FOI 8550 response set out on the June 2022 disclosure log) to 3,548, it would still far exceed the 18 hour limit as described above (1 minute per item would still take in excess of 59 hours). The procedure would cause serious disruption to the day to day working of the Planning Policy department which would be the department that would be responsible for carrying out this search. Therefore the Council is unable to process the request any further. As set out in the previous paragraph, the Council has the right to refuse to provide the information in accordance with Section 12 of the Act 

The only information that the Council has been able to obtain is a copy of the minutes and item briefing document relating to a Biosphere Reserve Partnership meeting that took place 6 October 2021 from Andy Bell which was disclosed to the applicant with his consent

For every financial year (April to March) from FY 2016-2017 to FY 2021-2022, please provide the following:

- Volume of cases handled by dog wardens

- Volume of dog-related cases referred to the Police

1. How many permanent/FTC hires in a calendar year do you make?

2. How do you manage permanent recruitment? e g internal team, outsourced etc

3. If outsourced, what service do they provide and who is your service provider, when does the contract end?

4. How much did you spend in a year on permanent agency/outsourced recruitment to the nearest £100k for 2019/20, 2020/21 & 2021/22?

5. How many temporary hires in a year do you make?

6. How do you manage the recruitment of temporary staff? e g a neutral vend provider, recruitment agencies direct, managed service?

7. If the answer to the above involves a third party, when does this arrangement expire? When will you decide on the future method and procurement?

8. On average how many temporary staff do you have on site?

9. How much did you spend in a year on temporary recruitment per annum to the nearest £100k for 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22

1. Unable to provide as this varies each year depending on business need 

2. Internal Human Resources department 

3. N/A 

4. Permanent Recruitment carried out internally by HR (separate to agency/temporary recruitment): 

2019/20 – budget £9,000. Spend just over £11,000 (difference was vired from other HR budgets) 

2020/21 – budget £9,000. Spend just over £14,000 (difference was vired from other HR budgets) 

2021/22 – budget £14,000. Spend around £16,500 (difference was vired from other HR budgets) 

5. As 1. above 

6. Neutral Vend. This information is published via our Contract Register 

7. As 6. above 

8. Unable to provide as this will vary day to day 

9. This information is published in a dataset on our website; 

Council spend on agency staffing (covering years 2011/12 through to 2021/22

Q1. How many times has your council experienced an attempted cyber-attack over each of the past five years? For this and all relevant questions below, please provide data broken down into calendar year including 2022 to date, or failing that, by relevant 12-month period (e g 2020/21, 2021/22 etc)

· 2022

· 2021

· 2020

· 2019

· 2018

Of these attacks, how many resulted in the criminal being able to obtain data or disable systems?

· 2022

· 2021

· 2020

· 2019

· 2018

Q3. Thinking about cyber-attacks where the criminal was able to obtain data or disable systems, how much have these cost your council in each of the past five years? If possible, please include the sum total of monies lost to hackers, legal costs and GDPR fines

· 2022

· 2021

· 2020

· 2019

· 2018

Q4. What is the most common type of cyber-attack your council has experienced in 2022 so far? (e g phishing, DDoS, ransomware, password attack, malware, insider attacks)

Q5. In the last 12 months have you employed an external expert to give you advice on how to mitigate the risk of cyber-attacks? If you have but not in the last 12 months please state when 

Q6. Does your council currently hold a cyber-insurance policy to protect against the consequences of a cyber-attack? 

Q7. If so, have you claimed on this policy? 

Q8. Have you increased cyber security in the last year to mitigate the risk of cyber-attacks? 

Q9. When did your council last hold training for employees aimed at reducing the role of human error in cyber-attacks and data breaches, e g to prevent phishing? 

Q10. Where on your corporate risk register is cyber risk ranked?

· We don’t have a risk register

· It is not on our risk register

· Outside of the top 10

· Three – ten

· Top three

1. How do you ensure departments do not keep electronic files which are past their retention period?
2. How do you monitor network storage across your Council to ensure electronic files have not been retained outside their retention schedule?
3. How do you identify employees whose files take up the most space and analyse whether they are within their storage quotas?
4. How do you identify files that have been retained outside their retention periods
5. Does your Council use a file archiving solution? If so, please state the solution/product name
6. Does your Council use a file analysis solution? If so, please state the solution/product name
7. How does your Council manage large media files(large images files, videos files) on your network
8. Do you allocate personal storage drives to employees? If so, please state the storage quota limit

1. We ask departments to monitor and manage their own files and retention policies
2. We leave individual departments to monitor their retention policies
3. We leave individual departments to monitor their retention policies
4. No
5. Yes, Treesize
6. The usage of large media files is reviewed as dictated by the business requirements
7. Every user is allocated a personal storage area, but there is no defined quota
8. We do not have any specific policy or procedure document relating to this

1. How many households in your Local Authority area are eligible for the £150 council tax rebate announced by DLUHC in March 2022? 

a) Of these households, how many pay council tax by Direct Debit, and how many by other means? (e g cash / phone / cheque payments) 

b) For households eligible for the £150 council tax rebate that pay for council tax by Direct Debit, how many have now received their £150 payment by July 1st 2022 and how was their payment processed? (i e transfer via BACS, postal cheque etc) 

c) For households eligible for the £150 council tax rebate that do not pay for council tax by Direct Debit, how many have received their £150 payment by July 1st 2022 and how was their payment processed? (i e transfer via BACS, postal cheque etc) 

2. Is your council one of the 152 authorities responsible for distributing the Household Support Fund? And if so, could you please tell me how many applications has your Local Authority received for Household Support Fund Payments between December 6th 2021 to July 1st 2022? Please can you provide this information on a month-by-month basis?

1. 38,908

1. a) 28,675 direct debit and 10,233 other means

1. b) 26,800 by BACS

1. c) 10,233 by Post Office Voucher

2. Applicant referred onto Devon County Council‘s Information Governance team as they have been the awarded authority in Devon

The total cost of the Allowed Planning Appeal at Yelland Quay (60823) Including a breakdown of the Appellants Costs and the amount the Council spent in contesting the Application and Appeal. Also what impact will these sums have on Local Council taxpayers

Applicant provided with a Word document which sets out the costs in respect of the consultants, venue hire, stationery etc paid so far (available upon request)

At this time, the Council does not yet have the developer’s costs so it is unable to provide the applicant with this information. Applicant further advised that that it may take up to a couple of months for the figures to be submitted to the Council and then agreed. Applicant advised that they may wish to consider submitting a further request for this information at the end of August/beginning of September 2022

The Council does not hold specific recorded information that sets out the impact that these costs will have on local Council Taxpayers

Total number of CCTV cameras in the Council’s area in:

2019

2022

Applicant states that they are aware that the Council probably won’t have data for Private CCTV cameras and requests the Council to share the most complete number available

2019 = 25

2022 = 32

Please note that these numbers are of the those CCTV cameras within the Council’s remit/responsibility, it does not maintain numbers of private/other CCTV cameras operating

1. A copy of any project plans associated with the implementation of Microsoft OneDrive in your organisation 

2. A copy of any project plans associated with the implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint in your organization

3. A copy of any audit reports (to determine the effectiveness of your IT Service Desk or IT Helpdesk) undertaken on your IT Service Desk or IT Helpdesk between 2018 and the present day

1. The Council holds no project plans associated with implementing Microsoft One Drive 

2. The Council holds no project plans associated with implementing Microsoft Sharepoint 

3. The Council holds no audit reports in respect of the ICT service desk between 2018 and the present day

1. The number of hereditaments to which this relief has been applied to date

2. The estimated value of this relief to be granted by your authority for the whole of the 2022/23 rate year

1. 1,018

2. 4.7 million

1. The number of hereditaments for which COVID-19 additional relief fund (CARF) relief has been provided to date by your authority

2. The value of the COVID-19 additional relief fund (CARF) relief provided

1. 233

2. £1,044,977.37

Since when has North Devon District Council taken to calling themselves Devon Council?

Is this a legal status of change, please? Or, a form of self-agrandissment?

At the end of 2007 the Council began using ‘North Devon Council’, however the legal name of ‘North Devon District Council’ was not adopted as a result of the prescribed legal process*

North Devon Council is a trading name. For example, in the same way that National Westminster Bank trades as NatWest

*Section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972 permits a district council to change the name of the district, by way of the passing of a resolution by two-thirds of its members at a meeting of the council specially convened for the purpose

A list of Motor Vehicles registered for public hire i e Taxi/Private Hire/Hackney Carriage that were either issued a new or renewal licence in the period 1st April 2022 to 30th June 2022 in Excel format, providing the following:

Specifically, I would like to know:

Vehicle registration number      

Manufacturer (Make)            

Model                               

Licence Start date                         

Licence Expiry date                      

Information provided to the applicant in Excel format, which is available upon request

CON29 information relating to a property at EX34 7DG

Applicant provided with the information, where held and also directed to the Council’s website for some of the information

CON29 information relating to a property at EX34 7AR

Applicant advised that no information held

CON29 information relating to a property at EX31 3DZ

Applicant advised that no information held

CON29 information relating to a property at EX32 7HF

Applicant provided with the information, where held and also directed to the Council’s website for some of the information

CON29 information relating to a property at EX32 7JY

Applicant provided with the information, where held and also directed to the Council’s website for some of the information

In each of the last three financial years (18/19) (19/20) and (20/21) please state how much income has been accrued by your local authority from motorists for all types of motoring expenses, with a breakdown for:

a) Penalty Charge Notices, and where possible a further breakdown by offence e g parking ticket, bus-lane fines, etc

Bus Lane fines and on-street parking enforcement falls under the remit of Highways (Devon County Council) covering North Devon

a) Applicant referred to the following dataset published on the Council’s website:

Revenue received by the Council in parking charges and fines - 2009/10 - 2020/21

b) Applicant referred to the following dataset published on the Council website:

Income from Pay and Display machines and through RingGo by Town

Parking Permit Income:         

2018/19 = £146,866.11

2019/20 = £189,127.43

1.In relation to your collection of council tax for each financial year, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20,  2020/21, 2021/22 and April 2022 to date, please provide the total number of:

a) reminders issued

b) final notices issued

c) court summonses issued

d) liability orders issued

e) attachment of benefit arrangements made

f) attachment of earnings arrangements made; and

g) referrals/debt passed to enforcement agents

2. Against how many people did you commence committal proceedings with regard to unpaid council tax in 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and April 2022 to date?

3. How many people were committed to prison for non-payment of council tax in 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and April 2022 to date?

4. What was the a. Average, b. Longest, c. shortest number of days served in prison by people committed to prison for non-payment of council tax owed to the local authority for each year 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and April 2022 to date

5. How many people were subject to a suspended committal order for non-payment of council tax in 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and April 2022 to date?

Reminder 1  issued

2017/18 – 10829

2018/19 – 10396

2019/20 - 10199

2020/21 – 16365

2021/22 – 9571

2022/23 – 5646 

Reminder 2 issued

2017/18 – 3805

2018/19 – 3581

2019/20 - 3293

2020/21 – 1705

2021/22 – 2909

2022/23 – 1055 

Final Notice issued

2017/18 – 6697

2018/19 – 6436

2019/20 - 6056

2020/21 – 4117

2021/22 – 6422

2022/23 – 3324 

Summons issued

2017/18 – 4675

2018/19 – 4536

2019/20 - 4459

2020/21 – 2646

2021/22 – 4556

2022/23 – 2579 

Liability Order issued

2017/18 – 2179

2018/19 – 2134

2019/20 - 2052

2020/21 – 2119

2021/22 – 3916

2022/23 – 1947 

Attachment of Benefit and Attachment of Earnings 

This number is not recorded. We have around 47000 properties, many with multiple accounts. To extract the data manually it would take approximately 5 minutes per account 

Section 12 of the Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for Local Authorities is set at £450 by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours at £25 per hour in determining whether the Council holds the information, locating, retrieving and collating the information 

It has been estimated by the Revenues team that it would take approximately 3,916 hours to provide the requested information, the procedure of which would cause serious disruption to the day to day working of the team. Therefore we are unable to process this part of the request any further. As set out in the previous paragraph, the Council has the right to refuse to provide the information in accordance with Section 12 of the Act 

Cases to Enforcement Agent

2017/18 – 2179

2018/19 – 2134

2019/20 - 2052

2020/21 – 42

2021/22 – 5493

2022/23 – 1415 

2. None

3. N/A

4. N/A

5. N/A

6. N/A

Whether the council has a policy regarding the use of zero hours contracts

1. The total number of public on-street parking spaces in your local area, if possible, broken down by: 

a.    Residential-only (at all times)

b.     Time restricted residential spaces

c.     Public short stay

d.     Public long stay

e.     Blue badge/accessible

f.      Charging stations 

2. The total number of off-street parking spaces in your local area, broken down by: 

a.    Public short stay

b.    Public long stay

c.     Blue Badge spaces

d.    Electric Vehicle charging stations 

3. The total number of free public parking spaces/locations in your local area 

4. The total number of paid public parking spaces/locations in your local area 

5. The cheapest and most expensive parking location in your area, based on hourly rate 

6. The total number of fines issued to drivers for misusing parking spaces for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date 

7. And if possible - please can you let us know if the cheapest and most expensive locations have increased in price over the past 12 months, and if so by how much?

1. a) through e)

On-Street Parking falls under the remit of Devon County Council therefore you will need to direct this part of your request onto: accesstoinformation-mailbox@devon.gov.uk

1. f) As far as the Council is aware there are currently zero on-street charging stations in North Devon, however DCC will be able to confirm this. Also, the following map may assist you: https://map.openchargemap.io/#/search

2. a), b, c) This information is held in table format that cannot be inserted into this log, and so is available upon request

2.d) Currently Zero that are operational, however three have been installed and a fourth is currently being fitted. These will be commissioned within the next month

3. Information included within table as referred to above

4. Information included within table as referred to above

5. Congrams Close, Fremington, Lower Pilton, Mill road, Tarka, Hele, Hillsborough Jubilee Gardens Museum £0.40 per hour

6. This information is published on the Council’s website under Parking enforcement and penalty charge notices datasets

7. None

We understand that the following Leisure contracts has expired: 

Service - Leisure - DN87547 (CS-SWCE-9DTKA2) Management of North Devon Leisure Centre and Ilfracombe Swimming Pool 

• Contractor - Parkwood Leisure Ltd

• Expiry date - 31/05/2022 

Service - Leisure - DN476999 Management of North Devon Leisure Centre and Ilfracombe Swimming Pool and the Agreement for the Management of the Tarka Tennis Centre 

• Contractor - Parkwood Leisure Ltd

• Expiry date - 31/05/2022 

Where any services are contracted out to a third party please provide the following information for each service: 

• Description of service provided

• Contract reference number

•  Name of contractor

• Start date of contract

• Duration of contract plus any extension options

• End date of contract

• Contract value (please make clear if the figure provided is the total contract value or an annual value)

Applicant directed to the Council’s Contract Register where a live contract is published:

Design, Build, Operate and Maintain (DBOM) Contract for North Devon District Council Leisure Facilities with Parkwood Leisure Ltd

For the period 1st April 2021 - 31st March 2022:

1. How many external hires were made at North Devon District Council over this period (all vacancies)?

2. What was your total recruitment spend for this period (all vacancies)?

3. How much of this budget was spent on external agencies (all vacancies)?

3. a) Who are these agencies and what was their total cost per agency?

3. b) Who is the senior responsible officer in relation to this budget?

4. Do you have a centralised recruitment team at North Devon District Council or are your recruitment budgets and responsibility managed by your service leads?

4. a) Who are these recruitment and/or service lead(s)?

5. What is the organisational structure within your recruitment and hr teams at North Devon District Council?

1. 44 

2. £964,648.50 for Agency spend and £17,000 on internal recruitment that the Council has carried out to employ individuals direct and not through an agency 

3. £964,648.50 

3. a) As follows:  

Comensura Ltd = £825,642.59

Cordant People Ltd = £48,002.12

G2 Recruitment Solutions  = £48,613.27

M5 Hideaway Ltd = £7,215.00

The Oyster Partnership Ltd = £3,859.50

Vivid Resourcing = £31,316.02

Total = £964,648.50

3. b)  This will depend on the area of service, however in order to assist you below is a breakdown of the spend by service:

Car Parks General = £11,510

Customer Services = £7,215

Communications = £164

EH and Housing Administration = £99,639

Food Safety Control Activities = £7,697

Kerbside Recycling = £451,414

Development Control/Enforcement = £156,350

Domestic Refuse Collection = £99,155

Dog Bins = £12,464

Vehicle Workshop = £16,511

Toilet Cleaning = £102,529

The following link provides the details of Senior Management who are responsible for this budget and the teams that they manage: https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/council/chief-executive-and-senior-management/

4. Responsibility of service budget holders, but any vacancies is approved by the S151 officer. External recruitment is and recruitment budget is centralised – HR. Agency is down to relevant services 

4. a) Same as 3. b) above 

5. Copy provided to applicant, which is available upon request

How much Section 106 money has been collected for use within Combe Martin, the "use by" date on the funds and how much of this has been allocated to projects

Applicant advised that the Council are currently holding £10K in respect of Combe Martin from Application 63055 which is committed to Combe Martin Football Club enhancements

All the information on reported dog fouling in your council area including:

• Number of reports of dog fouling
• Number of fixed penalty fines given
• Number of prosecutions (and subsequent fines if applicable)

Please could we have the information on this from the last 5 calendar years, please. If data from the last 5 calendar years is not possible, would it be possible to share data from the last 2 calendar years instead, please?

Numbers of reports of dog fouling by calendar year – 2010 – 2021

Number of reports of dog fouling by financial year – 2010/11 – 2021/22

The above two datasets can be found on this page: https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/open-data/?ID=6D869870-EF56-455D-8985-3B36CA7B9D34&DS=4005

Fixed Penalty Notice data is published in annual datasets for each calendar year and includes a variety of environmental fines including dog fouling which can be found on this page: https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/open-data/?ID=B51726BB-93ED-47AD-80F1-3E4AB3A25D63&DS=4005

Details of prosecutions are published in quarterly datasets and include all prosecutions that the Council has made which would include any relating to dog fouling (where applicable) and can be found on this page: https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/open-data/?ID=0437E375-8836-45E5-BAB8-A11E6739B321&DS=4005

1. The number of households on your council/social housing waiting list

2. The number of households on your council/social housing waiting list with children

3. The number of households on your council/social housing waiting list with children under the age of five

As at the date the response was issued (28 July 2022):

1. 2,166
2. 893
3. 473 with children under five years old

Responsible Person Contact Details for ECO4 Flex declarations as per the ECO4 Order 

Background 

In Ofgem’s ‘Ofgem ECO4 Administration Consultation Part 2’ detailed at https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/ofgem-eco4-administration-consultation-part-2 'Chapter 6' of the consultation sets out the intention for ECO4 Flex under the ECO4 Order 

In Chapter 6 the consultation says from July 2022 Councils will be required to issue a Statement of Intent (SoI) and a dedicated responsible person would need to sign the declaration. The relevant part of the publication is: 

6.21. From 1 July, a new SoI will be required from LAs across GB to state their intent to participate in ECO4 Flex and a commitment that the signing LA officer will check and verify that declarations will be issued for households that match the criteria in the SoI. As with ECO3 SoIs, these would need to be signed by the CEO or dedicated responsible person 

Relevant legislation

The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022 at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348236606/part/1?fbclid=IwAR1NwvIWKeVLdfdqz7-l-RZxp-uGy8OSxwF-ei6w6ge52Aok8EIG3llshNg    

Freedom of Information Request

The Freedom of Information Request that I am making is as follows: 

1. Please could you provide details of the CEO or dedicated responsible person referred to in the consultation above. Requested details for the Responsible Person include

Full Name

Job Title

Email address

Telephone number

Address 

2. Please can you also advise on whether you 

2.a) Accept applications from all appropriately Registered Installers

or

2.b) Accept applications from a defined list of installers (if this is the case please can you provide details)

1. The Council publishes its Statement of Intent on its website which is signed by the Head of Environmental Health and Housing and also provides the contact details of the responsible officer:

https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/media/381134/statement-of-intent-version-2-january-2021.pdf  

2. Please refer to the following webpage which sets out this information: https://www.northdevon.gov.uk/benefits-and-grants/housing-grants-and-loans/eco-flexibility-assistance/