Roads, Pavements and Streets
Information to help you decide who to report a problem to.
Hertfordshire County Council maintains the district’s roads, pavements and streetlights. This includes:
- Hedges and other vegetation growing on private property obstructing the highway
- Maintaining bus stops and shelters
- Salting paths and roads
- Safety related work to trees on rural and high speed roads
- Mending potholes
- Repairing streetlights and traffic signals
- Requests for permission to carry out work on a highway or verge
- Safety related work to trees in residential areas (out of hours)
St Albans City & District Council work in partnership with, and carry out the following work on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council:
- Grass verge cutting
- Weed treatment on the roads and paths
- Shrub beds on verges
- Hedges on verges
- Safety related work to trees in residential areas (Monday to Friday between 9am & 5pm)
- Damaged, missing or hard to read street name plates
- Street cleaning issues – emptying street litter bins, fly tipping, graffiti, vandalism, dog fouling.
- Abandoned or nuisance vehicles