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Your right to buy your council home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
Form TR1 to transfer a property.
How to search for information about property and land in England and Wales - find out who owns it, how much was paid for it, how to get a scanned copy of the deeds and how to check the property boundaries
You can no longer open a Help to Buy ISA. Find out how it works if you already have one, including how much the government will top up your savings by.
Apply for financial help to make your home suitable for a disabled person
If a tenant is having difficulty paying their rent, apply for a Managed Payment to Landlord using the Apply for a Direct Rent Payment service to request payment of rent from a tenant’s Universal Credit.
How to update the property records and transfer a registered property when someone dies using forms DJP, AS1 and AP1.
Get help and advice from your local council if you're homeless or about to lose your home.
Information about Housing Benefit from your local council - apply to help pay your rent
Application form ID1 to prove your identity when lodging an application to HM Land Registry.
Application form DJP: remove the name of a joint proprietor from the register, after a death.
Landlord responsibilities when renting out your property, including making repairs, health and safety, increasing the rent and changing regulated tenancies.
Report potholes on A roads, motorways and local roads to the council
Your council must help if you’re legally homeless or will become homeless within 8 weeks. Help may include advice, emergency housing or longer-term housing.
Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants
Find out if your council collects recycling, how to recycle household waste such as mobile phones, computers, packaging and green waste
Get support from your local health protection team (HPT) to prevent and reduce the effect of diseases and chemical and radiation hazards
Tenant's guide to deposit protection schemes - your deposit, information landlords must provide, disputes and advice.
Arrange for a collection of clinical waste - for items like used syringes, drugs, pharmaceuticals and surgical waste
Apply to rent a garage from the local council - there may be a waiting list
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