Consultations

The Countryside Management Service (CMS) is working in partnership with St Albans City & District Council to develop a new ten-year Greenspace Action Plan for Camp Open Space.

The draft GAP has now is available for comment until 11th September 2026.

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St Albans City and District Council is proposing to renew the current Alcohol Control, Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) that is in place in the City centre.  We are inviting comments on this proposal. The current order expires on 20 October 2026.

This proposal is being submitted as the PSPO is a necessary power which allows the Police to prevent street drinking, associated crime and anti-social behaviour within the area of the order.

Unfortunately, St Albans City Centre continues to attract high levels of street drinking. This takes place in hotspots, and on occasions with intimidation and violence between street drinkers and members of the public. Without the PSPO, the Police will lose a key means of control and there would be a risk that the behaviour would escalate.

Since March 2026, the Police have used this order to seize alcohol on 122 occasions. 

A person found to be in breach of the Order is liable on summary conviction (at the Magistrate's Court) to a maximum penalty of a level 2 fine (£500) or a fixed penalty notice (FPN) of up to £100.

Written representations about the proposed renewal of the PSPO can be sent to CommunitySafety@stalbans.gov.uk or in writing to Community Safety at St Albans City and District Council, Civic Offices, St Peters St, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3JE before 1 October 2026.

• Draft Public Space Protection Order 2026 ( pdf - 549.76 KB )

St Albans City and District Council consulted on its tenancy agreements to ensure they are clear, fair and up to date. Residents were invited to take part in this consultation to help shape the final version of the tenancy agreement.

Residents and organisations across Hertfordshire were invited to have their say on proposals to change the structure of local government in the county.

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Hemel Garden Communities, St Albans City & District and Dacorum Borough Council invited local residents, businesses, and developers to have their say on two new Draft Supplementary Planning Documents to help shape the future housing, neighbourhoods and development within the Hemel Garden Communities Programme Area. The documents provide a joint approach for all development planned in and around Hemel Hempstead in Dacorum and St Albans districts.

Supplementary Planning Documents are technical documents which help to clarify, illustrate or provide detail on how Local Plan policies should be applied in practice and they will help to inform future development across the town.

Residents, parish and town councils, residents’ associations, and community groups were asked for their views on the draft recommendations for parish and town council arrangements in St Albans City and District.

Licensing consulted on changes to the Street Trading Policy.

The Council consulted on updates to the taxi policy section 26 which deals with dual badges for those who can be licensed to drive both private hire and hackney carriage vehicles.  

The proposed changes were designed to clarify meaning and better represent the intended use of the policy.

The Council reviewed its Charitable Collections Policy and invited residents to make comments about the policy. Feedback will be used to shape the policy.

• Air Quality Action Plan
• Alban Way Greenspace Action Plan
• Animal Welfare Licensing Fees
• Bentsley Spinney Greenspace Action Plan
• Bernards Heath Greenspace Action Plan
• Bricket Wood Common Green Space Action Plan
• Brownfield Land Register
• BT payphone removal
• Business Rates Revaluation 2017 Discretionary Support
• Busking Code of Practice
• Car Parking
• Cemeteries
• Changing Places Toilet Fund
• Charitable Collections Policy
• Charter Markets
• Clarence Park Management Plan
• Colney Heath Neighbourhood Plan Area
• Community Safety Partnership
• Council response times
• Council Tax Support Scheme
• COVID-19 Recovery
• Cunningham Field Open Space Project
• Customer Commitment
• Customer Services
• Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan
• Draft Housing Strategy
• Electoral Boundary Review
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
• Gambling Policy
• Garage site developments
• Gloucester Park programme of works
• Green Spaces management plan
• Grow Community Sopwell
• Gustard Wood Conservation Area character statement
• Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Policy
• Harpenden Leisure and Cultural Development
• Harpenden Neighbourhood Plan
• Hatfield Road Cemetery Greenspace Action Plan
• Housing Allocation Policy
• Housing Tenancy Strategy
• How Wood Greenspace Action Plan
• Lea Valley Line Greenspace Action Plan
• Leisure facilities
• Licensing Statement of Policy
• Local Plan
• Napsbury Conservation Area Character statement
• Netherway Greenspace Action Plan
• Nickey Line Greenspace Action Plan
• Night time economy
• Nomansland Common Greenspace Action Plan
• Open Space
• Parking Strategy
• Parva Close Greenspace Action Plan
• Pavement Licensing Policy
• Payphones
• Polling District and Polling Place Review
• Portable youth shelter
• Public Space Protection Order
• Rail Timetable changes inquiry
• Planning Validation Lists
• Polling districts and polling places
• Potters Crouch Conservation Area Character Statement
• Revenues and Benefits Customer Satisfaction
• River Ver and Verulamium Park Lakes Improvement Project
• Rothamsted Park Greenspace Action Plan
• Sandridge Neighbourhood Plan Area
• Shafford Mill Conservation Area Character Statement
• Sopwell Nunnery Greenspace Action Plan
• Special Treatments Fees
• St Albans Green Ring
• Street Trading Policy
• Taxis
• The Wick Greenspace Action Plan
• Verulamium Park Greenspace Action Plan
• Website redesign
• Westminster Lodge Changing Places
• Yellow line parking restrictions