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30th December 2024
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This search is for our information requests from September 2020 onward.
Housing waiting list
1. How many 2 bed houses with a drive/allocated parking outside the property and a garden (LA or HA) are currently void in Finchampstead Gorse Ride or Finchwood Park developments?
In terms of voids to offer via the housing register the answer is none.
Procurement schedule
I am currently seeking to identify individual procurement exercises undertaken by Wokingham Borough Council during the 2022 calendar year so that I may submit one or more targeted requests for the underlying procurement records relating to specific procurements.
School transport for children with send — numbers of applications, refusals and appeals
For each academic year — 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 (year to date) — please provide:
1. Applications decided: the number of SEND-ground applications your authority made a decision on.
Total 2023/24: 456
Total 2024/25: 343
Total 2025/26: 633
Business Rates
1. Please provide a list of all non-domestic (business rates) ratepayers including for each hereditament:
- Ratepayer / business name
- Property address and postcode
- Rateable value
- Property description / use
- Any current reliefs or exemptions applied
Social value/ responsive repairs contract
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the social value commitments and outcomes of the council’s previous responsive repairs contract (i.e.
Planning/Building Control department complaint
Social Impact Agreements
1. Could you please advise how many Social Impact Agreements have been agreed in the past 3 years by WBC.
Wokingham Borough Council does not operate a formal process for establishing or recording arrangements known as "Social Impact Agreements".
Business Rates
1. Please can you email me a list of July or Q1 (most current) business rates credits you currently hold for businesses including:
• The company name for whom the credit exist
• The start date of the business rates account
Highways and Capital Projects
1. California Crossroads
Total recorded expenditure on the California Crossroads scheme, broken down by financial year and by major cost category
Planning applications received for change of use to restaurant or café use (Use Class E — restaurant/café)
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, for each of the financial years 2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26 (to date), please provide the following information. This request relates to Wokingham Borough Council