List of Services
Last Modified October 19, 2015
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- Housing Enforcement Policy
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- Information about Choice Based Lettings, the mutual exchange of social rented housing and private renting in Hertsmere.
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- The Housing Act 2004 gives local authorities the power to enforce housing standards across the borough.
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- Links to our Housing Strategies and Action Plans
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- Find out information on how the council works.
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- This website page provides details on how to check the progress of an application or how to submit comments.
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- Advice and guidance on coping in an emergency and how to be prepared.
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- Information and advice about Immobilise
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- Press release about pupils with Special Educational Needs from schools in the Hertsmere borough who attended an Inclusion event held at Arsenal's London Colney training ground
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- Information and Digital Services implement and support the technology and information management required to enable our services to be redesigned and transformed around the needs of the community we serve.
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- Information about the council's internal audit provision
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- Useful information for reporting issues where you live
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- Advice about control of Japanese Knotweed
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- External website to contacts for Job Centre Plus
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- Find about local authority jobs, working for the council and work experience opportunities.
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- Join our website testing panel - fill out our form to be sent early versions of Hertsmere web pages to help us improve our website to better benefit you.
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- Find out how to keep up to date with the latest council news and information through our social media channels, e-alerts and meetings.
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- Information on Kelly Court play area, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information about Kenilworth Park, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information on King George Recreation Ground, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Collect food waste more easily in the kitchen with a kitchen caddy and compostable liners, plus paper sacks for extra garden waste.
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- Knowing our community - statistical information relating to our community
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- External link to Gov.uk Land Registry page, including property ownership, boundary questions etc.
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- Press release about free CPR Awareness Sessions are being run by fire crews at Borehamwood and Elstree Fire Station.
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- Information about Leeming Park, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information on Hertsmere's leisure centres, run and managed by Hertsmere Leisure.
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- Find out here about tenants rights to redress under the new legislation.
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- External link: information about your local library, opening hours and renewals.
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- Information about house-to-house collection permits, and how to apply for one.
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- Information about the licence needed to run a sex shop or a sex cinema and how to apply for one.
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- Information about a highway projection licence and how to apply for one.
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- Information about various licences and registrations.
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- Find out about the licenses needed for alcohol and entertainment, animals and boarding animals, charities, gambling, private hire and hackney carriages and trading.
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- Information about the Licensing Act 2003.
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- List of applications of licensing premises and notifications
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- Animal Welfare Licensing of Activities Involving Animals England Regulations 2018
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- Statutory listed buildings are buildings, objects or structures that have been judged to be of national historical or architectural interest. They are designated by Historic England.
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- We are responsible for street cleaning and litter-picking.
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- We can help you organise and provide equipment for a community litter pick
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- Information about Little Bushey Lane park, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information about local councillors, MPs and MEPs
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- Local Government Transparency Code details
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- Details about Housing Benefit for people renting from Private Landlords.
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- When a property or parcel of land is bought, leased, mortgaged or a valuation carried out, a request for a search is sent to the council in whose area the property lies.
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- We have a statutory duty to guide development within our borough, and use a number of policies and guides to do so. The Local Plan sets out policies which are used when planning applications are being determined.
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- Elstree Way Corridor is an area in Borehamwood which is a mix of businesses, commercial units, public sector services and housing. An Area Action Plan (AAP) has been prodiced which is a Development Plan Document (DPD) that will be an important consideration in determining most planning applications in this area. The AAP was formerly adopted on 8 July 2015.
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- Core Strategy Development Plan Document
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- The Policies Map relates to the spatial policies in the Local Plan 2012-2027.
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- The SADM Policies Plan has three main purposes:◾to provide environmental and other criteria, against which all development proposals and planning applications can be judged;◾to define sites and areas. These are shown on a policies map and include the Green Belt, towns and villages, town centres, employment areas, housing sites and open spaces. For site proposals (e.g. housing sites), the plan lists specific planning criteria or constraints to which development proposals should adhere; and◾to deliver the policies set out in the Hertsmere Core Strategy 2013.
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- Find your local recycling point
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- Information about theatres in Hertsmere.
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- We maintain a list of Locally Important Buildings in Hertsmere, which includes over 300 buildings of local significance. Inclusion on the local list provides extra protection for buildings which are not on the national register of listed buildings.
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- information about lotteries and how to apply for an operating licence or registration.
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- Details on how to make a claim for housing benefit and council tax benefit.
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- Information about our management structure
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- Information about Mark Forsdyke Garden, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information about Maxwell Hillside Park, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information about Meadow Park, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Meals on Wheels in Hertsmere
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- Press release about 'meanwhile users' for former Bushey Country Club site
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- Information about highway projection licences, performance and stage licences for school age children, petroleum licensing and scrap metal dealer registration.
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- Reasons your bin or box may have been missed.
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- An article about modern slavery and human trafficking.
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- Press release about the latest E-Safety Workshops in Hertsmere organised by the Hertsmere Schools Partnership, which were attended by 180 pupils.
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- Press release about Paul Hannaford's latest visits to speak to schoolchildren.
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- Information on the registration and safety requirements for houses in multiple occupancy.
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- Find out more about Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Elstree and Borehamwood Museum, Potters Bar Museum and local theatres.
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- Information about exchanging social rented housing
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- Information on the National Fraud Initiative
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- Information and links about neighbourhood planning in Hertsmere
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- Press release about changes to animal welfare legislation which may mean more people in the Hertsmere borough will need to apply for a licence.
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- A dilapidated Potters Bar property which has been empty for more than 10 years will be getting a new lease of life following unprecedented legal intervention by the local authority.
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- The new Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Hertsmere were welcomed at the annual council meeting in May.
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- This page provides details of new planning applications received.
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- Press release about a new sports club which is set to open in Hertsmere to cater for children with disabilities.
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- Information on Newcome Road play area, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Find out the latest news from across the council.
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- Press release about the nominations for the Shenley Parish Council by-election.
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- Information on Oakmere Park, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information on how to comment, object or support a planning application.
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- Find out about your rights under the Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act and Environmental Information Regulations, and read our residents' magazine, Hertsmere News.
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- older people's day silver Sunday celebration grant
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- Details on how you can view details of your benefit entitlement / payments online.
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- Press release about online systems being unavailable on Saturday 28 July.
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- Information about reporting empty and derelict homes in Hertsmere.
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- Information about Organ Hall Open Space, where it is and what it has to offer.
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- Information on safe and successful events.
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- Other health and wellbeing services available.
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- News release about the results of our residents' survey
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- Information about the out of hours callout service provided by environmental health
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- Details about Housing Benefit overpayments.
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- Find out about the role of our three Overview and Scrutiny committees.
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- An overview of the work we do with our partners to deliver sport and leisure opportunities.
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- Information about parish and town councils in Hertsmere
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- Information on Park Avenue park, where it is and what it has to offer.