Safety and the environment in your community

A to Z

• Apply for an appliance exemption for use in smoke control areas
• Apply to get fuel authorised for use in smoke control areas
• Check a public building's Display Energy Certificate
• Check local environmental data and maps
• Check the quality of your drinking water
• Clear snow from a road, path or cycleway
• Comment on an alcohol licence
• Common land and village greens
• Contact your council about crime prevention and community safety
• Controlling your dog in public
• Find your local park
• Fireworks: the law
• Garden bonfires: the rules
• Get a permit to deal with coal or coal mines
• Get a police check on someone involved with a child
• Green Deal: energy saving for your home
• House fires: financial help and fire safety
• Noise from roads, trains or planes
• Nominate a Community Payback project
• Preparing for emergencies: find out about local plans
• Report a coal mine hazard
• Request a pedestrian crossing
• Request a speed limit change
• Request clinical waste collection
• Search the register of planning decisions
• Smart meters
• Smoke control areas: the rules
• Track your Part I compensation claim
• Youth crime prevention programmes
• Youth offending teams

Detailed guidance

• Land use and management

Housing and local services

• Being a landlord and renting out a room

• Council Tax

• Council housing and housing association

• Local councils and services

• Noise, neighbours, pets and pests

• Owning and renting a property

• Planning permission and building regulations

• Recycling, rubbish, streets and roads

• Repossessions, emergency housing and evictions

• Safety and the environment in your community

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions