Your council
Hart: 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.
Hart District Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, South East; within the county of HAM. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Hampshire County Council.
Do it online
- Household waste collection: Providing information
- Household waste collection: Reporting
- Bulky household waste collections: Applications for service
- Household garden waste: Providing information
- Recycling bags and containers: Providing information
- Flytipping: Reporting
- Noise pollution: Reporting
- Council tax annual notification: Providing information
- Council tax annual notification: Collecting revenue
- Council tax discount: Applications for service
- Council tax benefit new claim: Applications for service
- Housing benefit new claim: Providing information
- Electoral register: Providing information
- Electoral register: Applications for service
- Parking permits: Providing information
- Planning decision notices: Providing information
- Councillors directory: Providing information
- Complaints procedure: Providing information
Housing
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Transport
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Council tax
Band D set by Hart for 2026–27: £210.20 of a £2,400.02 total bill in the area.
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Environment
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Education
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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education services | none budgeted |
| Highways and transport services | −£212,000 |
| Children's social care | none budgeted |
| Adult social care | none budgeted |
| Public health | none budgeted |
| Housing services (general fund only) | £2.4 million |
| Cultural and related services | −£922,000 |
| Environmental and regulatory services | £6.5 million |
| Planning and development services | £3.7 million |
| Police services | none budgeted |
| Fire and rescue services | none budgeted |
| Central services | £5.4 million |
| Other services | none budgeted |
| Total service expenditure | £16.8 million |
Hart in numbers
- Total population
- 103,162 people
- Median age
- 43 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £33,968
- Gross median weekly pay
- £773
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 12.3%
- Claimant Count
- 1.6%
- Average house price
- £481,051
- Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
- 10.0 affordability ratio
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 4.0 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 86.9%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 210.3 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 4,775 number of enterprises
Who runs the council
33 seats in 2026. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of Liberal Democrats and independents.
Councillors by party: Liberal Democrats 13, Community Campaign (Hart) 11, Conservative and Unionist 8, Independent / Other 1.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 33 councillors, by ward
- Andy Brown (Liberal Democrats) — Blackwater and Hawley
- Pam Hardy (Liberal Democrats) — Blackwater and Hawley
- Robert Harward (Liberal Democrats) — Blackwater and Hawley
- Chris Axam (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Crookham East
- Gill Butler (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Crookham East
- James Radley (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Crookham East
- Tina Collins (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Crookham West and Ewshot
- Tony Clarke (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Crookham West and Ewshot
- Wendy Makepeace-Browne (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Crookham West and Ewshot
- Alan Oliver (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Fleet Central
- Katie Davies (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Fleet Central
- Richard Jones (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Fleet Central
- Daisy Khepar (Liberal Democrats) — Fleet East
- Dan Taylor (Liberal Democrats) — Fleet East
- Peter Wildsmith (Liberal Democrats) — Fleet East
- Angela Delaney (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Fleet West
- Ben Thomas (Community Campaign (Hart)) — Fleet West
- Steve Forster (Conservative and Unionist) — Fleet West
- Anne Crampton (Conservative and Unionist) — Hartley Wintney
- Spencer Farmer (Conservative and Unionist) — Hartley Wintney
- Tim Southern (Conservative and Unionist) — Hartley Wintney
- Ann Baty (Liberal Democrats) — Hook
- Dermot Smith (Independent / Other) — Hook
- Selena Coburn (Conservative and Unionist) — Hook
- Chris Dorn (Conservative and Unionist) — Odiham
- Jon Hale (Conservative and Unionist) — Odiham
- Stephen Highley (Conservative and Unionist) — Odiham
- David Neighbour (Liberal Democrats) — Yateley East
- Graham Cockarill (Liberal Democrats) — Yateley East
- Stuart Bailey (Liberal Democrats) — Yateley East
- Alex Drage (Liberal Democrats) — Yateley West
- Gerry Crisp (Liberal Democrats) — Yateley West
- Richard Quarterman (Liberal Democrats) — Yateley West