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Further information on your contaminated land register (Following Railway tracks from South Oxford (Southern Bypass Road Bridge) to Wolvercote (Peartree Roundabout). I reviewed the register on your website but it appeared empty so wanted to double check incase that register was not up to date (see attached)
Published: 19 August 2026
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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the Council's public space CCTV system. I would be grateful for responses to the following structured questions. To help your team return the information efficiently, I have grouped the questions into five sections. I have deliberately scoped the request narrowly, and would be happy to refine further if any part exceeds the Section 12 cost limit. 1. CCTV estate 1.1 The total number of fixed cameras operated by, or on behalf of, the Council in public spaces (excluding cameras covering council office interiors, car parks on private land, and housing-stock-only cameras). 1.2 The total number of redeployable, mobile, or vehicle-mounted cameras operated by, or on behalf of, the Council. 1.3 The approximate age in years of the oldest cameras currently in operation. 1.4 The name and version of the Video Management System (VMS) or control room software currently in use (for example, Genetec Security Center, Milestone XProtect, Synectics Synergy, Cathexis CathexisVision). 2. Contracts 2.1 The names of the current suppliers for each of the following: a. CCTV hardware supply. b. Video Management System / control room software. c. Installation, maintenance, and repair services. 2.2 The contract commencement date and expiry date for each of the contracts identified in question 2.1. 2.3 For each contract, any scheduled option to extend beyond the stated expiry, together with the maximum length of the extension. 2.4 The procurement framework under which each contract was awarded, if any (for example, Crown Commercial Service RM6263, YPO, Procure Partnerships, NEPO, ESPO, or a direct award). 3. Budget 3.1 The total revenue expenditure on the public space CCTV service in the most recently completed financial year (2024/25), broken down where readily available into: (a) staff costs, (b) maintenance contract costs, (c) connectivity / telecommunications costs, (d) software licence costs. 3.2 Any ring-fenced capital allocation for CCTV investment approved in the current financial year (2025/26) or planned for 2026/27. 4. Operational responsibility 4.1 The job title of the officer with day-to-day operational responsibility for the CCTV service (for example, CCTV Control Room Manager, Community Safety Manager). 4.2 The job title of the senior responsible officer (Director or Head of Service level) for the CCTV service. 4.3 Where disclosure is consistent with Section 40 of the Act, the names of the officers in 4.1 and 4.2. 5. Recent funding 5.1 Please confirm whether the Council received funding, applied for funding, or is a named local authority partner in any of the following schemes in the last 24 months: a. Home Office Safer Streets Fund (any round, including Round 5, 2023–2025). b. Defra Fly-tipping Intervention Grant Scheme (any round). c. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Pride in Place Strategy funding. d. UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocations where used for CCTV, community safety, or public realm surveillance. 5.2 Where the Council received funding under any of the above, the total amount and whether any portion was, or is, ring-fenced for CCTV or related technology spend.
Published: 19 August 2026
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For the purposes of completing a piece of academic research on sex establishment policy across English regions, I request to know the following information: 1) The number of sex establishments operating in this council's relevant localities as of July 2026. 2) If sex establishments are operating in the council's area, I would like to know how many, and what kind of sex establishment they are. 3) If none, I request verification as to how many licence applications have been refused, revoked, or surrendered since 2009. 4) I would also like to know (if this is the case), when the first sex establishment licences were granted following the adoption of c27 of the 2009 Act, or if all sex establishments in this council area operate on grandfathered rights. 5) If sex establishments operate continuously on grandfathered rights, is it the case that a licence is continuously granted, or in some cases so these establishments pay for a transfer when the licence expires, as this costs less? 6) I would also like confirmation/a quote of the cost for application to and grant of a sex establishment licence within this Council's remit- assume this is an initial application for a new establishment, not a renewal or transfer. Assume this establishment will be successful in its application and will open in an appropriate location. If there is cost variation depending on the type of sex establishment, please detail the cost breakdown according to different types of sex establishments (sex shops/ cinemas) or sexual entertainment venues/ hostess bars. If there are costs associated with the application process and being awarded a licence separately, or similar fees that compound during the process of obtaining a licence, please ensure to mention these.
Published: 19 August 2026
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and/or the Environmental Information Regulations, as applicable, please provide the following recorded information concerning publicly accessible equipped children’s playgrounds owned, managed or maintained by Oxford City Council. For this request, “children’s playground” means a publicly accessible outdoor play area containing fixed play equipment primarily intended for children. Please exclude school playgrounds, privately owned facilities, standalone outdoor gyms, standalone skateparks and standalone multi-use games areas, unless they form part of an equipped children’s playground included in the council’s records. If the council uses a different recorded definition, please answer using that definition and briefly explain it. Please provide: 1. Current playground provision The number of equipped children’s playgrounds currently owned, managed or maintained by the council, and the date on which this figure was correct. 2. Openings and closures For each completed financial year from 2021/22 to 2025/26: a. The number of equipped children’s playgrounds opened. b. The number permanently closed. Please do not count temporary closures for maintenance or refurbishment as permanent closures. If annual figures are not held for the full period, please provide the years that are available and state which years are not held. 3. Playground expenditure For each financial year from 2021/22 to 2025/26, please provide the recorded figure held by the council. a. Recorded revenue expenditure on the inspection, routine maintenance and repair of equipped children’s playgrounds. b. Recorded capital expenditure on the creation, replacement or major refurbishment of equipped children’s playgrounds. Please provide revenue and capital expenditure separately where possible. If playground expenditure cannot be separated from a wider parks or leisure budget, please provide the relevant figure as held and briefly explain what it includes. We are not asking the council to undertake a new calculation. Where the 2025/26 figure has not been finalised or audited, please provide the latest provisional figure and identify it as provisional. 4. Inclusive playground provision The number of council-maintained playgrounds currently recorded or designated by the council as having inclusive play facilities. If readily available, please provide the definition or criteria used by the council to classify a playground as inclusive. If the council does not maintain this classification, please state that the information is not held. 5. Accessible equipment The number of council-maintained playgrounds currently recorded as containing at least one item of accessible play equipment. If readily available, please provide the definition or criteria used to classify equipment as accessible. If the council does not maintain this classification, please state that the information is not held. 6. Playgrounds awaiting repair As of the date the information is extracted: a. The number of individual playgrounds affected by an open or outstanding equipment repair. b. The date on which this figure was correct. Please provide the information in Excel or CSV format where possible. We are requesting recorded totals or figures already held by the council and are not asking the council to inspect individual files or create new statistics. If any part of the request would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please provide reasonable advice and assistance on how it could be narrowed. Where possible, please provide the information that can be retrieved within the limit, prioritising questions 1–3. If the council does not own, manage or maintain any equipped children’s playgrounds, please confirm this. If another public body holds the information, please identify that body where known.
Published: 18 August 2026
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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide your most recent available extract of the authority’s non-domestic rating database, covering all hereditaments appearing in the local rating list. For each hereditament or business-rates account, please provide the following fields where held: 1. Billing Authority property reference number; 2. VOA assessment reference number; 3. Full property address; 4. Property postcode; 5. Property description; 6. Current rateable value; 7. Ratepayer name; 8. Ratepayer type or legal status, where recorded, such as: - limited company; - limited liability partnership; - public body; - charity; - partnership; - sole trader; - individual; 9. Company registration number, where recorded; 10. Date the current ratepayer became liable; 11. Date liability ended, where applicable; 12. Current occupation status, including whether the property is: - occupied; - unoccupied; - exempt; - partly occupied; - deleted from the rating list; 13. Date the property became empty, where applicable; 14. Date any empty-property exemption ends or ended; 15. The type of every mandatory or discretionary relief currently applied; 16. The percentage or monetary amount of each relief; 17. The commencement date of each relief; 18. The end date of each relief, where recorded; 19. Whether the account is currently subject to transitional relief or transitional adjustment; 20. The gross charge for the current financial year; 21. The net charge after reliefs and adjustments; 22. The current account balance, identifying whether it is a debit, nil or credit balance; 23. The date on which the account record was last materially updated. For the avoidance of doubt, I am requesting information already held within your revenues or non-domestic rating system. I am not asking the authority to undertake property research, make judgements about eligibility or create information that is not already held. Where the authority considers the names of individuals, sole traders or partners to be exempt under section 40(2), please redact only those names and provide all remaining non-personal information, including the property address, assessment reference, occupation status, liability dates and relief information. Please do not withhold the names of incorporated companies, limited liability partnerships, public authorities, registered charities or other legal persons on the basis of section 40, as information relating solely to a legal person is not personal data. If any requested field is not held, please identify that field as not held rather than refusing the request in its entirety. I request the information in CSV format, or alternatively Microsoft Excel format, with one row per hereditament or account. This is a preference expressed under section 11 of the Freedom of Information Act. If substantially the same information is already publicly accessible, please provide the precise webpage and direct file location under section 21 rather than referring generally to the authority’s website. If you estimate that compliance would exceed the appropriate cost limit under section 12, please: 1. provide all information that can be supplied within the limit; 2. explain which fields cause the limit to be exceeded; 3. provide your estimate of the work associated with those fields; and 4. offer reasonable advice and assistance under section 16 as to how the request may be refined. Please confirm the date on which the database extract was produced.
Published: 17 August 2026
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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 concerning credit balances held on non-domestic rating accounts. Please provide your most recent available report of business-rates accounts that currently have a credit balance. For each account, please provide the following information where held: 1. Billing Authority property reference number; 2. VOA assessment reference number; 3. Property address; 4. Property postcode; 5. Ratepayer name, limited to incorporated companies, limited liability partnerships, public authorities, registered charities and other legal persons; 6. The amount of the credit balance; 7. The financial year or years to which the credit relates; 8. The date the credit first arose; 9. The reason for the credit, using any category or description already held within your system; 10. Whether the account remains active or has been closed; 11. Whether a refund has been requested; 12. Whether a refund has been authorised; 13. Whether the authority has attempted to contact the ratepayer; 14. Whether the balance has been written on, written off, transferred or otherwise adjusted; 15. The date of the most recent refund or credit-balance review. I do not request: - bank account details; - payment-card details; - authentication information; - security questions or answers; - personal telephone numbers; - personal email addresses; - copies of refund forms; - signatures; or - any other information that could be used to impersonate a ratepayer. Where you consider disclosure of the exact credit amount to engage section 31, please provide the remaining fields and replace the exact amount with one of the following bands: - £0.01 to £99.99; - £100 to £499.99; - £500 to £999.99; - £1,000 to £4,999.99; - £5,000 to £9,999.99; - £10,000 to £49,999.99; - £50,000 and above. If you consider that property-level disclosure would still engage section 31, please provide aggregated information showing: 1. the total number of accounts in credit; 2. the total value of all credits; 3. the number and value within each of the above bands; 4. the number and value relating to active accounts; 5. the number and value relating to closed accounts; 6. the number and value outstanding for: - less than three months; - three to twelve months; - one to three years; - three to six years; - more than six years; 7. the number and value of credits refunded during each of the previous three financial years; 8. the number and value of credits written on, written off or transferred during each of the previous three financial years. Please provide the information in CSV or Microsoft Excel format. If any information is withheld, please identify the specific exemption relied upon and explain how it applies to the particular information withheld.
Published: 17 August 2026
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Please see below an FOI request for the council. 1. Which council service or department will be responsible for administering the Building Safety Levy? 2. Since 1 April 2025, has the council recruited or appointed any additional staff to administer, collect or monitor the Building Safety Levy? a. If yes, how many Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) posts have been recruited or appointed? b. If yes, what is the annual salary budget for these posts? 3. Has the council received any central government funding to support administration of the Building Safety Levy? a. If yes, please state the total amount received. 4. Does the council hold an estimate of the cost of administering the Building Safety Levy in 2026/27 and 2027/28? a. If yes, please provide it. 5. Does the council intend to use agency staff or external contractors to administer the Building Safety Levy? I have attached a spreadsheet to input the responses if that is helpful.
Published: 13 August 2026
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information: 1. The total number of ASB cases which were opened during: * 2025 (January 1st - December 31st) * 2026 (to date) 2. The number of ASB cases that were closed without formal enforcement action during: * 2025 (January 1st - December 31st) * 2026 (to date) 3. How many formal applications for an ASB Case Review (Community Trigger) were received by the council during: * 2025 (January 1st - December 31st) * 2026 (to date) 4. Of those applications, how many were deemed to have met the local threshold for a multi-agency review? * 2025 (January 1st - December 31st) * 2026 (to date) 5. Of the cases that went to a full multi-agency review, how many resulted in recommendations that altered or added to the victim's existing ASB action plan? * 2025 (January 1st - December 31st) * 2026 (to date) Please provide the requested information in a spreadsheet format (such as Microsoft Excel), if possible. If any part of this request is unclear I would be grateful if you could provide advice and assistance under section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to help refine the request. Thank you for your time and assistance. Yours faithfully, Eleanor Phee ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please use this email address for all replies to this request: request-1474038-9f8a546b@whatdotheyknow.com Is freedomofinformation@oxford.gov.uk the wrong address for Freedom of Information requests to Oxford City Council? If so, please contact us using this form: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/change_request/new?body=oxford_city_council Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/officers For more detailed guidance on safely disclosing information, read the latest advice from the ICO: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/ico-guidance-for-authorities https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/ico-anonymisation-code Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will be delayed. If you find this service useful as an FOI officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's FOI page.
Published: 13 August 2026
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Worcester College Ball was held on 21 June. The Environmental Health Team (EHT) were due to monitor sound levels through the night of 21 June and early hours of 22 June. Please provide (1) the detailed assessment made by EHT as to whether sound levels complied with the relevant Noise Impact Assessment; (2) details of any occasion where the sound levels exceeded the agreed levels or exceeded levels regarded by the EHT as acceptable, stating what noise level (in decibels) is regarded as acceptable; (3) the number of, and a summary of, noise-related complaints (if any) received following the event; (4) the locations at which noise was monitored and the time of monitoring; (5) the occasions on which noise levels exceeded 100 decibels; (6) whether noise levels exceeded 120 decibels at any point.
Published: 12 August 2026
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Please send a copy of all pre-application correspondence and advice between the applicant or applicant's representative and Hayley Jeffrey or other members of Oxford planning, regarding planning application 26/01398/FUL to me Alex Kazmi, at this email address alex.kazmi@inbox.com. Thank you
Published: 10 August 2026
