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Contact your council to find out if they provide pest control services to remove pests like wasps, rats, mice and bedbugs
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
Arrange a special collection for large waste items - most councils will collect things like old sofas, fridges or washing machines for a fee
Find out when and how to report a notifiable tree pest or disease in the UK, and information on services such as Tree Alert, TreeCheck and Observatree.
Find out about pests and diseases that could be affecting your trees.
Find out what you can do to prevent or help minimise the introduction, establishment, spread and impacts of tree pests and diseases in the UK.
The organisms that cause infectious diseases that laboratories must report, and how to report them.
Your local council may help you get rid of common pests in your property like mice, wasps and bedbugs with pest control services
Disputes with neighbours - noisy neighbours, barking dogs, statutory nuisances, high hedges, mediation and when your council can step in
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
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