We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
You can ask the police to check if someone that has contact with a child has a record of sexual offences.
Join a competent person scheme to self-certify certain types of building work instead of getting building regulations approval from a council or private inspector - how to join, current schemes
Form ST1: Statement of truth in support of an application for registration based upon adverse possession.
You can be fined if your dog is out of control in public - find out about Dog Control Orders, banned dogs, dog fouling and reporting a dangerous dog
You can report obstructions on the road such as illegal signs, hedges, builders skips and scaffolding to the local council or National Highways.
Report litter to your local council
This form is for housing association tenants who wish to apply to buy their home through the Right to Acquire scheme.
Application form UN1 to enter a unilateral notice.
Eviction of council or housing association tenants: grounds for eviction, notice period, and what a court can decide
Application form SIM for an official search of the index map.
If you find a flooded road or street, report it to your local council
Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
Application form PN1 for a search of the Index of Proprietors' Names.
Application form ADV1: registration of a person in adverse possession.
Developers should fill in this form to show how a development will achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Application form HC1 to apply for copies of historical edition(s) of the register or title plan held in electronic form.
Why you might be given a 'Fixed Penalty Notice' for an environmental offence by your local authority and how you can pay or challenge it
Appeal a decision on a householder planning application by your local planning authority - deadlines, how to appeal and how long it takes to get a decision
You may need to make a 'works to trees' application if they’re protected by a ‘tree preservation order’ (TPO) or you live in a conservation area.
Application form ID2: certificate of identity for a corporate body.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).