Housing and communities

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Services

• Search for land and property information

  Find a property and get its title plan, title register, who owns it and see if it's at risk of flooding

• Find out your rubbish collection day

  Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected

• Housing Benefit

  Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.

• Search sold property prices

  Find out how much a property sold for in England or Wales

• Stamp Duty Land Tax

  You pay Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when you buy houses, flats and other land and buildings over a certain price in the UK.

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Guidance and regulation

• HM Land Registry: Registration Services fees
  • Detailed guide
  • 31 January 2022
  • HM Land Registry
• Contact HM Land Registry
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 February 2022
  • HM Land Registry
• Assured tenancy forms
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 October 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Start paying Council Tax
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 January 2016
  • Valuation Office Agency
• How to rent
  • Guidance
  • 21 July 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

• Buildings insurance for multiple-occupancy residential buildings: response to FCA's interim findings
  • 16 May 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• RSH Chief Executive expresses condolences on death of St Mungo’s CEO, Steve Douglas
  • 13 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • News story
• 350,000 households supported to buy a home through Help to Buy
  • 11 May 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Homes England
  • Press release
• Regulatory judgements and notices, and gradings under review
  • 11 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Decision
• Regulatory judgement: London Borough of Ealing
  • 11 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Decision

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Research and statistics

• Dwelling stock estimates in England: 2021
  • 12 May 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• Live tables on dwelling stock (including vacants)
  • 12 May 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Help to Buy (equity loan scheme): data to 31 December 2021
  • 11 May 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Official statistics
• Local reference rents, listed by BRMA and property size (April 2022)
  • 4 May 2022
  • Valuation Office Agency
  • Research
• Quarterly Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) statistics
  • 4 May 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Review of the Vagrancy Act: consultation on effective replacement
  • 7 April 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , Home Office, and Ministry of Justice
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 05 May 2022
• Consultation on local connection requirements for social housing for victims of domestic abuse
  • 15 February 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 10 May 2022
• Naming and shaming failing landlords
  • 29 March 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper
• Social housing regulation: draft clauses
  • 29 March 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper
• Traveller Site Fund 2022/23: prospectus
  • 20 March 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• RSH Board minutes 2022
  • 6 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• RSH Audit and Risk Assurance Committee minutes 2022
  • 6 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• List of non-submission of annual accounts
  • 4 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• Code of Conduct for Board and committee members
  • 1 May 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• Homes England spend for transactions over £250
  • 29 April 2022
  • Homes England
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Regulator of Social Housing
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Valuation Office Agency
• Homes England
• HM Treasury

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• Department for Work & Pensions
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Planning Inspectorate
• Department for Transport
• Cabinet Office
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Education
• District Valuer Services (DVS)
• Ministry of Justice
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Bona Vacantia
• Companies House
• Government Legal Department
• Coal Authority
• Tribunal Procedure Committee
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Government Equalities Office
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Social Mobility Commission
• UK Health Security Agency
• Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
• Immigration Enforcement
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Official Solicitor and Public Trustee
• Open Public Services

• HM Land Registry
• Environment Agency
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Natural England
• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
• The Charity Commission
• Military Aviation Authority
• Social Security Advisory Committee

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• Being a landlord and renting out a room
• Council housing and housing association
• Freehold and leasehold property
• Homebuying
• Homelessness and rough sleeping
• Housing for older and vulnerable people
• Housing funding programmes
• Housing regulation
• Neighbours, noise and pests
• Owning and renting a property
• Recycling, rubbish, streets and roads
• Rented housing sector
• Repossessions, emergency housing and evictions
• Safety and the environment in your community
• Tenancies and leases
• Traveller communities