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

• Housing Benefit

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

• Find out your rubbish collection day

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

• Search sold property prices

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

• Apply for council housing

  Apply for council housing through your local council - you'll usually have to join a waiting list

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Guidance and regulation

• HM Land Registry: Registration Services fees
  • Detailed guide
  • 24 January 2023
  • HM Land Registry
• Contact HM Land Registry
  • Detailed guide
  • 13 December 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
• How to rent
  • Guidance
  • 21 July 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

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News and communications

• Regulator of Social Housing publishes initial findings on damp and mould in social housing
  • 2 February 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • News story
• Recruitment launched for disability experts to advise Government
  • 1 February 2023
  • Disability Unit, Government Equalities Office, and Equality Hub
  • News story
• Rapport Housing and Care
  • 30 January 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Decision
• Regulatory judgements and notices, and gradings under review
  • 30 January 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Decision
• Rapport Housing and Care grading under review
  • 30 January 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Damp and mould in social housing: Initial findings
  • 2 February 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Research
• UK Stamp Tax statistics
  • 31 January 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Official statistics
• Quarterly Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) statistics
  • 31 January 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Official statistics
• Live tables on social housing sales
  • 31 January 2023
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Price Paid Data
  • 30 January 2023
  • HM Land Registry
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Transforming the ONS’s household financial statistics
  • 30 January 2023
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 24 February 2023
• Tackling homelessness together
  • 5 January 2023
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 16 May 2019
• Private shared homeownership: call for proposals
  • 5 January 2023
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, HM Treasury, and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 01 February 2019
• Homelessness Prevention Grant 2023/24 onwards: technical consultation
  • 23 December 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 26 August 2022
• Reshaping consumer regulation: our implementation plan
  • 12 January 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Homes England spend for transactions over £250
  • 24 January 2023
  • Homes England
  • Transparency
• Registered providers of social housing – updated monthly
  • 18 January 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• RSH spending over £250 - 2022
  • 13 January 2023
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• RSH Board minutes 2022
  • 5 December 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• RSH Audit and Risk Assurance Committee minutes 2022
  • 8 November 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • 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
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Transport
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Education
• Ministry of Justice
• District Valuer Services (DVS)
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Bona Vacantia
• Companies House
• Government Legal Department
• Government Equalities Office
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
• Coal Authority
• Tribunal Procedure Committee
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Social Mobility Commission
• UK Health Security Agency
• Disability Unit
• Government Actuary's Department
• HM Prison & Probation Service
• Immigration Enforcement
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Official Solicitor and Public Trustee
• Open Public Services
• Equality Hub

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

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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