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1. Please provide a list of all commercial properties owned by the council currently vacant in the council region along with the empty rates charges.

I would like to request the following information regarding placements and spending for high acuity dementia services.

1. Do you have your own local authority plant nursery? Does it have a peat-free policy?
The Cleaner & Greener and Countryside Services does not have any form of plant nursery therefore we do not have a policy for it

For the allocation of children to primary schools for September 2025 entry;

1. Tax year 24/25: The number of times between 1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025 that private bailiffs/enforcement agents have been instructed to enforce council tax debts owed to the local authority.
2,858

1. What percentage of households currently receive any form of Council Tax discount in the 2025/26 financial year? Please include all discount types (e.g. single person discount, low income-based reductions, disability-related discounts, student exemptions, etc.).

1. How many concerns or incident reports were received from nursing and/or care home providers in 2024?
364 recorded by care quality from care homes of which 350 were safeguarding's.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the council’s approach to fire door inspections across its estate and housing portfolio. Please could you provide the following:

I would like to request the following from this local authority:

1.
a) The number of applications for GATEWAY 1 of the Building Safety Regulator per year
b) The number of approvals for GATEWAY 1 applications per year