Safety and the environment in your community

Includes smoke control areas, road safety and public spaces

Your home

• Asbestos in your home
• Check the quality of your drinking water
• Green Deal
• House fires: financial help and fire safety
• Garden bonfires: the rules
• Fireworks: the law
• Smoke control areas: the rules
• Request clinical waste collection

Public safety

• Contact your council about crime prevention and community safety
• Preparing for emergencies: find out about local plans
• Get a police check on someone that has contact with a child

Public spaces

• Find your local park
• Common land and village greens
• Controlling your dog in public
• Find your local health protection team in England
• Appeal a decision about a tree preservation order
• Appeal a high hedges decision
• Appeal against a decision on consent to display an advertisement
• Comment on an alcohol licence
• Check a public building's Display Energy Certificate
• Report a coal mine hazard

Community projects

• Nominate a Community Payback project

Regulations for businesses

• Apply for an appliance exemption for use in smoke control areas

Highways

• Request a pedestrian crossing
• Request a speed limit change
• Noise from roads, trains or planes
• Clear snow from a road, path or cycleway