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• Council Tax and benefits

  • Pay Council Tax

    • Council Tax enforcement

    • Where your Council Tax goes

    • Liability, legislation and general information about Council Tax

  • External support agencies

  • Council Tax Support

  • Council Tax discounts and exemptions

    • Reductions for empty properties

    • Single person discount review

  • Council Tax bands, charges and appeals

  • Housing Benefit and Universal Credit

    • Backdating benefit

    • Appeal a benefit decision

    • Apply for Housing Benefit

    • Universal Credit

    • Report a change in benefit circumstances

    • Report benefit fraud

    • Discretionary Housing Payments

  • Report a change in circumstances

    • Register a death

  • Manage your account online

  • £150 Council Tax Rebate

    • Council Tax £150 rebate - discretionary scheme

  • Help if you're struggling with living costs

    • How you can support your local community through the cost of living crisis

    • Support available in your community

• Bins and recycling

  • What to put in your bin

    • General waste: Black wheelie bin

    • Recycling: Green boxes and blue bag

    • Food waste: kitchen and outdoor caddy

    • Garden waste: Green wheelie bin

  • What happens to your recycling

  • Report a missed bin

  • Request bins and recycling boxes

  • Check your collection day

  • Recycling banks and centres

  • Get help with your collection

  • Getting rid of large items

    • What we will collect

  • Clinical and medical waste

  • Collections in bad weather

  • Reduce and reuse your waste

  • Coronavirus - Bins and recycling

• Planning and building

  • Planning permission

    • Planning appeals

    • Development Management Committee

    • Find out if you need planning permission

    • Get advice on your planning application

    • View planning applications

    • Report breach of planning regulations

    • Footpaths

    • Step by step guide to planning permission

    • Make a planning application

  • Building regulations

    • Book a building inspection

    • Unauthorised building work

    • Demolitions

    • Dangerous structures

    • Find out if you need building regulations approval

    • Apply for building regulations approval

    • View building control applications

  • Historic buildings and conservation areas

    • Conservation area maps and appraisals

    • Listed buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments

    • Historic parks and gardens

  • Planning policy

    • What is the Local Plan?

    • Developing our new Residential Design Guide

    • Our current Local Plan

    • Developing our new Local Plan

    • Get involved

    • Supporting information for the Local Plan 2041

    • Neighbourhood planning

    • Sustainability appraisal

    • Landscape character assessment

    • Flood risk assessment

    • Gypsy traveller and travelling showpeople sites

    • Strategic housing land availability assessment

    • Supplementary planning documents

    • Developer and community forums

  • Street naming and numbering

  • Local land charges

    • Fees

  • Tree works and preservation

    • Register of tree preservation orders

  • Wildlife and biodiversity

    • Great crested newt district licensing scheme

    • Ecological assessments

    • Biodiversity specifications

    • Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)

    • Habitats Regulations Assessment - Severn Estuary

  • Community Infrastructure Levy

  • Regeneration

    • Cinderford Northern Quarter

    • Five Acres redevelopment site

    • Town Centre Monitoring

    • Regeneration Partnerships

    • Cinderford Future High Street Fund

    • Forest of Dean Levelling Up Fund

  • Self-build housing

  • Biosphere

• Business and licensing

  • Business rates and rate relief

    • Paying your business rates

    • Calculating your business rates

    • Rate relief

    • Unoccupied properties

    • Business rate changes 2023

    • Holiday let changes 2023

  • Apply or renew business licences and permits

    • Licensing Public Register

    • Pavement licence

    • Acupuncture, tattooing, piercing, electrolysis

    • Alcohol and entertainment

    • Animal licences

    • Caravan and campsites

    • Charity collections

    • Hypnotism

    • Organising public events

    • Street trading

    • Scrap metal

    • Sex establishments

    • Taxi and private hire licensing

    • Gambling

  • Business services

    • Commercial waste and recycling

    • Food businesses

    • Health and safety at work

  • Tenders and contracts

  • Commercial property and assets

  • Business support and advice

    • Business networking and events

    • Forest Economic Partnership

    • Finance and funding

    • Training and apprenticeships

    • Business parks and business centres

    • Remote Forest Directory

  • Invest in the Forest of Dean

    • UK Shared Prosperity Fund

    • Rural England Prosperity Fund

• About the council

  • Elections and voting

    • Register to vote

    • Helping you to vote - disabled access and information

    • Current and future elections

    • Election results

    • Elected representatives

    • Polling districts and places

    • Types of elections

    • Annual household canvass

    • Electoral boundary reviews

    • Elections Act 2022 - Voter ID and other changes

  • Councillors and committees

    • Find a district councillor

    • Council meetings and minutes

    • The Council's Constitution

    • Code of conduct for councillors

    • Allowances for district councillors

    • Future Cabinet decisions - the executive forward plan

    • Allowances for parish and town councillors

  • Council data and information

    • Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations

    • Data protection

    • Council data and information listings Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

    • Frequent FOI requests

  • Plans and policies

    • Policies and strategies

    • Equality and diversity

  • Council performance and spending

    • Council performance

    • Finance and expenditure

    • Counter fraud, bribery and corruption

  • Having your say

    • Comments and complaints

    • Consultations

    • Public participation

  • Parish and town councils

  • Gloucestershire County Council

  • Our partners

  • The Leader of the Council

  • Cabinet roles and responsibilities

  • Careers

    • Current vacancies

  • Council functions and responsibilities

• Housing

  • Apply for housing

  • Housing advice

    • Domestic abuse and housing

    • Housing options for older people

  • Homelessness support and advice

    • Homeless housing options

    • priority for housing

  • Private housing

    • Housing grants

    • Empty homes

    • Houses in multiple occupation

    • Advice for landlords and tenants

    • Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards

    • Warm and Well

  • Housing associations

  • Forest Linkline

  • Community led housing

  • Coronavirus - Housing

  • Housing strategy

• Environment

  • Fly tipping

  • Noise, pests, pollution and air quality

    • Air quality

    • Noise and other nuisances

    • Environmental permits

    • Contaminated land

    • Pest control

  • Litter, street cleaning and dog fouling

    • Report graffiti or fly-posting

    • Abandoned shopping trolleys

  • Animals and wildlife

    • Dogs lost and found

    • Report a dead animal

    • Animal welfare

  • Food hygiene complaints

  • Deaths, funerals, cremations and cemeteries

  • Private water supplies

  • Abandoned vehicles

  • Flooding

    • Watercourses and ditches

    • Blocked drains and sewers

    • Parish flood defences

    • How to prepare for flooding

    • Report flooding

    • Recovering after a flood

    • What to do during a flood

    • Rapid Response Catchments

  • Landscape and grounds maintenance

    • Working on protected trees

    • High hedges

    • Invasive and non-native weeds

    • Countryside hedgerows

    • Tree maintenance

  • Climate Action

    • Our route to carbon neutral

    • Climate action and what we are doing

    • Get involved with local climate action

    • How to achieve net zero carbon homes

    • Climate action you can take

• Communities, health and leisure

  • Community safety

    • Domestic abuse

    • Antisocial behaviour

    • Community Safety Partnership

    • Street wardens

    • CCTV

    • Drug and alcohol support

    • Protecting children and vulnerable adults

    • Serious Violence Duty

    • Prevent Duty

  • Support for communities

    • Community Right to Bid

    • Emergency planning

    • Support for refugees

    • Ukraine support

    • Imjin Veteran Memorial - the Korean War

    • Forest of Dean Armed Forces Support Network

  • Leisure centres and leisure activities

  • Community grants and funding

  • Community health and wellbeing

    • Healthy lifestyle classes

    • Dementia awareness

    • Winter wellness

    • The healthy lifestyles scheme

  • Forest Lottery

• Parking, travel and visitors

  • Pay or appeal a parking fine

  • Car parks and charges

    • car parks

  • Parking and travel orders

  • Forest of Dean tourism

  • Public toilets

  • Parking permits

  • Visit Lydney Harbour

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