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Stevenage: 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.
Stevenage 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.
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 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 Stevenage for 2026–27: £253.78 of a £2,391.97 total bill in the area.
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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 academy converter), 1 closed (1 academy converter)
- St Margaret Clitherow Roman Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
- St Margaret Clitherow Roman Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026
What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education services | none budgeted |
| Highways and transport services | −£2.2 million |
| Children's social care | none budgeted |
| Adult social care | none budgeted |
| Public health | none budgeted |
| Housing services (general fund only) | £1.2 million |
| Cultural and related services | £3.2 million |
| Environmental and regulatory services | £5.5 million |
| Planning and development services | £1.1 million |
| Police services | none budgeted |
| Fire and rescue services | none budgeted |
| Central services | £4.6 million |
| Other services | none budgeted |
| Total service expenditure | £13.5 million |
Stevenage in numbers
- Total population
- 91,774 people
- Median age
- 38 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £22,681
- Gross median weekly pay
- £810
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 25.1%
- Claimant Count
- 3.4%
- Average house price
- £316,210
- Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
- 8.1 affordability ratio
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 3.9 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 92.6%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 194.0 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 3,530 number of enterprises
Who runs the council
39 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority.
Councillors by party: Labour Party 22, Reform UK 10, Liberal Democrats 6, Conservative and Unionist 1.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 39 councillors, by ward
- Jody Hanafin (Reform UK) — Almond Hill
- Lin Martin-Haugh (Labour Party) — Almond Hill
- Tom Plater (Labour Party) — Almond Hill
- Jade Woods (Labour Party) — Bandley Hill & Poplars
- Jim Brown (Labour Party) — Bandley Hill & Poplars
- Wendy Rouse (Reform UK) — Bandley Hill & Poplars
- Dermot Kehoe (Labour Party) — Bedwell
- Ellie Plater (Labour Party) — Bedwell
- Nazmin Chowdhury (Labour Party) — Bedwell
- Jaysica Marvell (Liberal Democrats) — Chells
- Julie Ashley-Wren (Liberal Democrats) — Chells
- Tom Wren (Liberal Democrats) — Chells
- Jan Bainbridge (Reform UK) — Longmeadow
- Lynda Guy (Labour Party) — Longmeadow
- Peter Clark (Labour Party) — Longmeadow
- Andy McGuinness (Liberal Democrats) — Manor
- Peter Wilkins (Liberal Democrats) — Manor
- Robin Parker (Liberal Democrats) — Manor
- John Blackwood (Reform UK) — Martins Wood
- Lloyd Briscoe (Labour Party) — Martins Wood
- Myla Arceno (Labour Party) — Martins Wood
- Coleen De Freitas (Labour Party) — Old Town
- Graham Spencer (Labour Party) — Old Town
- Nigel Williams (Labour Party) — Old Town
- Forhad Chowdhury (Labour Party) — Roebuck
- Liam Phillips (Reform UK) — Roebuck
- Rob Henry (Reform UK) — Roebuck
- Ricki Rands (Reform UK) — Shephall
- Rob Broom (Labour Party) — Shephall
- Sarah Mead (Labour Party) — Shephall
- Claire Parris (Labour Party) — St Nicholas
- Matthew Hurst (Reform UK) — St Nicholas
- Richard Henry (Labour Party) — St Nicholas
- Jackie Hollywell (Labour Party) — Symonds Green
- Jeff Bullock (Reform UK) — Symonds Green
- Loraine Rossati (Labour Party) — Symonds Green
- Doug Bainbridge (Reform UK) — Woodfield
- Leanne Brady (Labour Party) — Woodfield
- Philip Bibby (Conservative and Unionist) — Woodfield