At St Michael Parish Council, we are keen to understand better the interests and concerns of the area’s residents and visitors, to help us in setting parish council priorities to focus our efforts in the coming years. A few moments of your time answering the questions in this survey would be very much appreciated.
Please follow this link, which will take you to an on-line survey form created with Microsoft 365.
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We can guide you to the right place to report faults or find out information:
Fly tipping on highways is dealt with by Herts County Council, if off-road it needs to be reported to St Albans.
St Albans City & District Council Visit Website
Covers the City of St Albans and the surrounding villages. They are responsible for a range of services including:
Hertfordshire County Council Visit Website
Covers the whole of Hertfordshire and their responsibilities include:
Local Environmental Records Centres (LERCs) are not-for-profit organisations that collate and manage information on the natural environment for a defined geographic area.
LERCs collaborate with experts to ensure information is robust, and make information, products and services accessible to decision-makers, the public, and researchers.
Hertfordshire Environmental Records Centre (HERC) is hosted by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Data held by HERC is provided by local naturalists and specialist groups, professional ecologists and the public. Information is made available to a wide range of individuals and organisations.
Contact HERC for further information or to make a data request:
www.hercinfo.org.uk (You can find a request form here)
01727 732 767
Herts Environmental Records Centre (HERC)
Grebe House
St Michael’s Street
St Albans
AL3 4SN
Updated 30 September 2024
The Council is developing a new Draft Local Plan, which is like a blueprint for future development. It establishes the Council’s long-term planning strategy for delivering and managing growth and infrastructure, for environmental and heritage protection and enhancement, up to 2041.
This is an emerging Draft Plan, and people who live and work in the District, community groups and businesses have been encouraged to give their views. We want to hear from as many people and organisations as possible. The feedback received will help shape the final proposals.
The draft St Albans Local Plan 2041 has now been published for its Regulation 19 consultation. The Plan will be available for you to make representations on between the following dates:
Start Date: 26/09/24 10:00 AM
End Date: 08/11/24 10:00 AM
The draft Local Plan can be found at https://www.stalbans.gov.uk/draft-local-plan-publication where you can make representations online.
Paper copies of the documents can be found at the following locations during opening hours:
This is a formal, statutory stage in the preparation of a Local Plan. Following the consultation the draft Local Plan is sent, along with all duly-made representations received, to the Planning Inspectorate. The Plan will then be Examined by a government-appointed Planning Inspector who will consider if any changes need to be made to the Local Plan before it can be adopted.
During the Examination of the Local Plan the Planning Inspector is only able to assess whether the draft Local Plan has been prepared in accordance with legal and procedural requirements, and whether it is ‘sound’. Therefore, all representations on the draft Local Plan must relate to a matter of legal compliance or a matter of soundness as follows:
There will also be unstaffed public exhibitions of materials in St Albans Civic Centre between 7 October – 18 October, and 28 October – 7 November.
How do I make any representations?
The best way to respond is by using the online consultation system which can be found through links on the Councils website at https://www.stalbans.gov.uk/draft-local-plan-publication.
You can send a response by Email to planning.policy@stalbans.gov.uk or by post to: Spatial Planning Team, St Albans Council Offices, St Peters Street, St Albans, AL1 3JE.
All representations must be received by 10am on Friday 8 November 2024.
Yours faithfully,
Spatial Planning Team
(from St Albans Council, www.stalbans.gov.uk/sustainability)
Herts Sustainability and Climate Change Partnership have now completed production of the Retrofitting your House Guide which is available for download at: https://www.hccsp.org.uk/building-retrofit.aspx.
The guide covers quick wins and demystifies larger measures such as heat pumps and renewable energy, covering all the major housing types in Hertfordshire. It also provides info on how to find contractors.
At our meeting this week were lucky to co-opt two new members to St Michael Parish Council. Extending a warm welcome to Gee Smedley and Damian Gaskin -we look forward to working with you!
Please see below the notices of election for the Harpenden and Berkhamsted, and St Albans parliamentary constituencies, which have been published today by:
The Acting Returning Officer, The Civic Centre,
St. Peters Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 3JE
We have just made available the accounts for the year ending 31 March 2024, which were approved by Councillors at our meeting on 28th May. Please head over to our Finances page to view the documents.
We are sorry that the Annual Parish Council Meeting on 14th May had to be deferred. We now have a new date – 28th May, See our Meetings page for full details.
