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North Hertfordshire is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Letchworth.

North Hertfordshire District Council
Type
Type	Non-metropolitan district council
Leadership
Chair of the Council	Sam North, Liberal Democrat since 26 May 2022
Leader of the Council	Elizabeth Dennis-Harburg, Labour since 26 May 2021[2]
Structure
Seats	49
Political groups	Administration (30)   Labour (17)   Liberal Democrats (13) Opposition (19)   Conservatives (19)
Elections
Last election	6 May 2021
Meeting place
Council Offices, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City
Website
http://www.north-herts.gov.uk

North Hertfordshire District
Non-metropolitan district
North Hertfordshire shown within Hertfordshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Non-metropolitan county	Hertfordshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Letchworth
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	North Hertfordshire District Council
• Leadership	Leader and Cabinet (Labour-Liberal Democrat (council NOC))
• MPs	Bim Afolami Oliver Heald Stephen McPartland
Area
• Total	144.9 sq mi (375.4 km2)
• Rank	104th (of 309)
Population  (mid-2019 est.)
• Total	133,570
• Rank	168th (of 309)
• Density	920/sq mi (360/km2)
• Ethnicity[1]	91.4% White 4.0% S.Asian 1.9% Black 1.8% Mixed Race 0.9% Chinese or other
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	26UF (ONS) E07000099 (GSS)
OS grid reference	TL2355435083
Website	www.north-herts.gov.uk

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the amalgamation of the urban districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth, and Royston and the Hitchin Rural District.

From eastward clockwise, it borders the districts of East Hertfordshire, Stevenage, Welwyn Hatfield, St Albans in Hertfordshire, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Central Bedfordshire again, and South Cambridgeshire.

Towns

• Baldock
• Hitchin
• Letchworth
• Royston
• Most of the Great Ashby development north east of Stevenage falls within North Hertfordshire.

Parishes and unparished areas

North Hertfordshire contains following civil parishes and unparished areas. Changes since 1974 resulting in creation or abolition of parishes are noted, but not boundary changes between parishes:

Area	Status	From	To	Parish authority	Notes
Ashwell	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Baldock	Unparished Area	1 Apr 1974	date	none	Former Baldock Urban District: no successor parish created and so became an unparished area.
Barley	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Barkway	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Bygrave	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Caldecote	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Grouped Parish Council	Shares grouped parish council with Newnham, called Caldecote and Newnham Parish Council.
Clothall	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Meeting
Codicote	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Graveley	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council	Ceded land to form parish of Great Ashby in 2011.
Great Ashby	Civil Parish	1 Apr 2011	date	Community Council	Created from part of Graveley in 2011.
Hexton	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Meeting
Hinxworth	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Hitchin	Unparished Area	1 Apr 1974	date	none	Former Hitchin Urban District: no successor parish created and so became an unparished area.
Holwell	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Ickleford	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Kelshall	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Meeting
Kimpton	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Kings Walden	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Knebworth	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Langley	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Meeting
Letchworth	Unparished Area	1 Apr 1974	31 Mar 2005	none	Former Letchworth Urban District: no successor parish created and so became an unparished area.
Letchworth Garden City	Civil Parish	1 Apr 2005	31 Mar 2013	Town Council
Letchworth Garden City	Unparished Area	1 Apr 2013	date	none	Parish and Town Council abolished 2013 to become an unparished area again.
Lilley	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Newnham	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Grouped Parish Council	Shares grouped parish council with Caldecote, called Caldecote and Newnham Parish Council.
Nuthampstead	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Meeting
Offley	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Pirton	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Preston	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Radwell	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Meeting
Reed	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Royston	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Town Council
Rushden	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Grouped Parish Council	Shares grouped parish council with Wallington, called Rushden and Wallington Parish Council.
Sandon	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
St Ippolyts	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
St Paul's Walden	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Therfield	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Wallington	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Grouped Parish Council	Shares grouped parish council with Rushden, called Rushden and Wallington Parish Council.
Weston	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council
Wymondley	Civil Parish	1 Apr 1974	date	Parish Council

Composition

The council consists of 49 elected members, representing twenty-four electoral wards. Nine of the wards elect two councillors each. Seven elect one, whilst eight elect three.

The council has been under no overall control since 2019, being run by a Labour and Liberal Democrats joint administration. In the 2021 council elections Labour lost the Letchworth Grange seat to the Conservative party. A total of 17 seats out of the 49 of the council were contested, including 2 bye-elections. The 16 other seats were held by the incumbent party. In the 2022 council elections, the Conservatives lost 2 seats to the Liberal Democrats, Letchworth South West and Hitchin Priory, as well as losing a further 2 seats to Labour, being Royston Palace and Baldock Town.[3]

Party		Councillors	Change (2022)
	Conservative	19	-4
	Labour	17	+2
	Liberal Democrats	13	+2
Total		49	-
Source: BBC News

Wards

North Hertfordshire consists of twenty four wards, electing 1, 2 or 3 members.

Arbury (1) Baldock East (1) Baldock Town (3) Cadwell (1) Chesfield (2) Codicote (1) Ermine (1) Hitchin Bearton (3)

Hitchin Highbury (3) Hitchin Oughton (2) Hitchin Priory (2) Hitchin Walsworth (3) Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo (3) Kimpton (1) Knebworth (2) Letchworth East (2)

Letchworth Grange (3) Letchworth South East (3) Letchworth South West (3) Letchworth Wilbury (2) Royston Heath (2) Royston Meridian (2) Royston Palace (2) Weston and Sandon (1)

Premises

When the council was created in 1974, it inherited five sets of offices from the five former authorities, spread across the four towns of Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock and Royston. Initially the new council used the former Hitchin Rural District Council's offices (later called Centenary House) on Grammar School Walk in Hitchin as its headquarters, with the other offices providing additional accommodation. In 1975, the year after the new council's creation, it consolidated most of its functions into a six-storey building on Gernon Road in Letchworth, which had been built as part of the Central Area (later Garden Square) Shopping Centre. The building was named Council Offices and has served as the council's headquarters since then.[4][5][6] The council rented the building until 2013, when it purchased it for £3.6 million.[7]

Arms

Coat of arms of North Hertfordshire

Notes Granted 16 January 1975 Crest On a wreath of the colours two sprigs of oak in saltire fructed Proper enfiling a mural crown Or perched thereon a hooded crow (Corvus cornix cornix) close Proper. Escutcheon Chevronny of six Or and Gules a pale Ermine on a chief Vert a fleece between two garbs of barley Or. Supporters On either side a hart attired of ten tynes Proper gorged with a coronet pendent therefrom a pentagon Or charged with a cogwheel Sable Motto Memores Acte Prudentes Futuri[8]

Logo

In 2021 the council adopted a new logo of four hearts (shown in the infobox above) and the style "North Herts Council" instead of its full formal name of "North Hertfordshire District Council". Prior to this, the council had used a logo of the initials "NHDC" in a green and purple square for approximately thirty years.[9]

References

External links

• North Hertfordshire District Council official website

На других языках

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[de] North Hertfordshire

North Hertfordshire ist ein District in der Grafschaft Hertfordshire in England. Verwaltungssitz ist Letchworth Garden City; weitere bedeutende Orte sind Baldock, Hitchin, Royston und St Ippolyts.

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- [en] North Hertfordshire

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[ru] Норт-Хартфордшир

Норт-Хартфордшир (англ. North Hertfordshire [nɔːrθ ˈhɑːrtfərdʃər]) — неметрополитенский район (англ. non-metropolitan district) в графстве Хартфордшир (Англия). Административный центр — город Летчуэрт.

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