East Hertfordshire District Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

East Hertfordshire District Council is the district, borough or city council for East Hertfordshire. It collects bins and council tax, and decides planning applications. Schools, roads and social care here are run by the county council, Hertfordshire. ONS places 4,705 postcodes in use in East Hertfordshire, in 17 postcode districts across 4 postcode areas.

84% of homes and businesses in East Hertfordshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 2,760 homes and businesses in East Hertfordshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
16
Postcodes in use
4,705
Postcode districts
17
Towns and villages
11

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

East Hertfordshire District Council

eastherts.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on East Hertfordshire District Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Bins and recycling

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

Roads and parking

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Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for East Hertfordshire District Council. GOV.UK lists 18. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 2 pages did not open for us. We left those out rather than send you to a page we could not see. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in East Hertfordshire?

Across East Hertfordshire, 84% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 71% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre71% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)84% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)98% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)Under 1%

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How much is council tax in East Hertfordshire?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,455 a year

Every other band is a fixed share of Band D, set in law. Band A is two thirds of it; band H is twice it.

BandA year
Band A£1,637
Band B£1,909
Band C£2,182
Band D£2,455
Band E£3,000
Band F£3,546
Band G£4,091
Band H£4,910

Band D is the average across the area, including the county council, police, fire and combined authority charges, and parish or town council charges, so a home's own bill can be a little different. Bands other than D are worked out by us from Band D and rounded to the pound. A home's bill also takes off any discount, such as 25% for one adult living alone.

Check one home's band on GOV.UK

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10, published 25 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in East Hertfordshire are at risk of flooding?

Across East Hertfordshire, the Environment Agency puts 2,760 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 649 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 649 postcodes High: 1,775Medium: 985Low: 3,887Very low: 100

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In East Hertfordshire the Environment Agency counts 3,439 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (4.3% of all its properties), 1,983 at medium risk (2.5%) and 6,111 at low risk (7.6%). Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Schools, roads and care: Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire has two councils. The county council, Hertfordshire, runs schools, roads, social care and libraries here.

Everything Hertfordshire County Council does

Postcode districts with postcodes in East Hertfordshire

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode areas

AL postcode area: St Albans, postcodes in use here:77 of 7,792CM postcode area: Chelmsford, postcodes in use here:1,411 of 18,674EN postcode area: Enfield, postcodes in use here:14 of 8,536SG postcode area: Stevenage, postcodes in use here:3,203 of 12,179

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in East Hertfordshire.

Towns and villages

Bishop's StortfordHertfordWareSawbridgeworthBuntingfordStanstead AbbottsPuckeridge and StandonHertford HeathHoddesdonHarlowStevenage

Is an address in East Hertfordshire?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

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What East Hertfordshire covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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