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  • The VOA wants to help customers provide the right information when making a Check, and the following focuses on how to do this for shops that are zoned for valuation purposes.

  • The VOA wants to help customers provide the right information when making a Check, and the following focuses on how to do this for factories, workshops and warehouses.

  • Fill in form VO 6048 if the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has asked you for rental information about your self-catering or holiday let property in England.

  • A guide to best practice on improving access to public transport and creating a barrier-free pedestrian environment.

  • Using a UK Blue Badge parking card in the EU and EEA.

  • Sets out vocational driver conduct matters to be referred to traffic commissioners by the Secretary of State for Transport (through DVLA).

  • Fill in a form to give someone else authority to challenge your Council Tax band on your behalf.

  • A guide to how the Council Tax system operates in England, including an explanation of the range of exemptions and discounts available.

  • How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.

  • Local transport note (LTN) on the design, effectiveness and installation of traffic calming measures.

  • Statutory guidance that highway authorities must follow if they want to introduce, operate or vary a permit scheme for street works.

  • The Publicity Code provides guidance on the content, style, distribution and cost of local authority publicity.

  • Code of practice for local authorities who have a duty to co-ordinate works in the highway, and for undertakers on how to co-operate in the process.

  • Find out how the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) calculates rateable values for public houses, inns and bars.

  • Notify the Bona Vacantia division that a person has died without leaving a will or any known blood relatives.

  • This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2024/25 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.

  • This factsheet provides answers to the most frequently asked questions by households about the council tax rebate.

  • The central rating lists contain the rating assessments of the network property of major transport, utility and telecommunications undertakings and cross-country pipelines.

  • This transparency code sets out what information smaller authorities should be publishing.

  • How government funds councils for thank you payments and tariffs. Includes two-tier and devolved administrations, education, record keeping, and reconciliation.