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Dacorum: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Dacorum Borough Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East of England; within the county of HRT. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Hertfordshire County Council. ONS code E07000096.

Council website

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The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Dacorum for 2026–27: £243.21 of a £2,408.51 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 new provision), 0 closed

Felden Hall School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 17 April 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Dacorum reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Dacorum: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	−£965,000
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	none budgeted
Public health	none budgeted
Housing services (general fund only)	£636,000
Cultural and related services	£3.3 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£8.4 million
Planning and development services	£4.5 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£13.3 million
Other services	£3,000
Total service expenditure	£29.2 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Dacorum in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 161,420 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 40 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £31,901 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £717 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 19.0% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 3.2% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £459,235 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 10.1 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Greenhouse gas emissions: 4.0 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 86.3% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 159.2 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 8,555 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

51 seats in 2026. Run by: Liberal Democrats, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 18, Liberal Democrats 17, Independent / Other 11, Labour Party 4, Vacant 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 51 councillors, by ward

Andrew Williams (Conservative and Unionist) — Adeyfield East
Barbara Pesch (Labour Party) — Adeyfield East
Adrian England (Liberal Democrats) — Adeyfield West
Ron Tindall (Independent / Other) — Adeyfield West
Paul Reynolds (Liberal Democrats) — Aldbury and Wigginton
Carrie Link (Liberal Democrats) — Apsley and Corner Hall
David Deacon (Liberal Democrats) — Apsley and Corner Hall
Vacant (Vacant) — Apsley and Corner Hall
Terry Douris (Conservative and Unionist) — Ashridge
Lin Greenfield (Labour Party) — Bennetts End
Pete Hannell (Labour Party) — Bennetts End
Ian Bristow (Independent / Other) — Berkhamsted Castle
Rick Freedman (Liberal Democrats) — Berkhamsted Castle
Garrick Stevens (Liberal Democrats) — Berkhamsted East
Nigel Taylor (Liberal Democrats) — Berkhamsted East
Sally Symington (Liberal Democrats) — Berkhamsted West
Will Jankowski (Liberal Democrats) — Berkhamsted West
Gbola Adeleke (Conservative and Unionist) — Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield
Philip Walker (Conservative and Unionist) — Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield
Stewart Riddick (Conservative and Unionist) — Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield
Claire Hobson (Independent / Other) — Boxmoor
Simy Dhyani (Liberal Democrats) — Boxmoor
William Allen (Liberal Democrats) — Boxmoor
Fiona Guest (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaulden and Warners End
Graeme Elliot (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaulden and Warners End
Nigel Durrant (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaulden and Warners End
Angela Mitchell (Labour Party) — Gadebridge
Heather Pound (Conservative and Unionist) — Gadebridge
Alex Bhinder (Conservative and Unionist) — Grovehill
Goverdhan Silwal (Independent / Other) — Grovehill
Julie Banks (Conservative and Unionist) — Grovehill
Neil Harden (Conservative and Unionist) — Hemel Hempstead Town
Victoria Santamaria (Independent / Other) — Hemel Hempstead Town
Brenda Link (Liberal Democrats) — Highfield
Sammy Barry-Mears (Independent / Other) — Highfield
Alan Anderson (Conservative and Unionist) — Kings Langley
Alan Johnson (Conservative and Unionist) — Kings Langley
Catherine McArevey (Liberal Democrats) — Leverstock Green
Jonathan Gale (Liberal Democrats) — Leverstock Green
Robin Bromham (Liberal Democrats) — Leverstock Green
Jan Maddern (Independent / Other) — Nash Mills
Lara Pringle (Independent / Other) — Northchurch
Carole Weston (Independent / Other) — Tring Central
Sheron Wilkie (Independent / Other) — Tring Central
Michela Capozzi (Independent / Other) — Tring East
Brian Patterson (Liberal Democrats) — Tring West and Rural
Caroline Smith-Wright (Liberal Democrats) — Tring West and Rural
Edward Barradell (Conservative and Unionist) — Watling
Jane Timmis (Conservative and Unionist) — Watling
Belinda Williams (Conservative and Unionist) — Woodhall Farm
Colette Wyatt-Lowe (Conservative and Unionist) — Woodhall Farm

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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