Do it online!
We aim to make Cotswold District Council website interactive, so that you can access as many of our services online as possible, at your convenience. We are doing this through providing online forms, e-mail addresses for services, and access to our main systems (such as the planning register).
Here are links to our online services:
| Benefit eligibility calculator | Are you eligible for housing/council tax benefit? |
| Bid for affordable housing | Through the GlosHomeseeker website. |
| Business rate balance | Look up your business rate balance. |
| Commercial property | Search covering Cotswold District and Gloucestershire. |
| Committee documents | View minutes, agendas and reports. |
| Complain online | Using our simple online form. |
| Corinium Museum collections | Search the collections databases. |
| Council tax balance | Look up your council tax balance. |
| Council tax band | Look up your council tax band. |
| Events calendar | Add your local events to our online calendar. |
| Find your councillor | Search our committees database. |
| Find your polling station | Find out where to vote at election time. |
| Have your say | Take part in our consultation exercises. |
| Holiday accommodation | Search for holiday accommodation. |
| Index of Council forms | Available to download or to complete online. |
| Local events | Search our events database. |
| Licensing register | Find out about licence applications here. |
| Make a payment | Pay your council tax or business rates online. |
| Planning breach complaint | Submit your complaint online. |
| Planning enforcement register | Search our register of enforcement notices. |
| Planning register | Find out about planning applications here. |
| Refuse and recycling | Look up refuse, green waste and recycling collections. |
| Report abandoned vehicles | Using our online abandoned vehicle report form. |
| Report benefit fraud | Using our simple, anonymous, online form. |
| Report problems and faults | Using our simple online form. |
| Temporary event notices | Find out about licensed and proposed events here. |
| Town centre maps | PDF versions of main town centre maps. |
You can also use our Postcode Search to perform a ‘find your nearest’ search for local services.
In addition you can:
- Access up-to-the-minute travel information: Travel to and around the Cotswolds
- Follow us on Twitter: @CotswoldDC
- Subscribe to our RSS feeds: Cotswold RSS feeds
- Subscribe to our planning alerts system: Planning email alerts
Plans for future online services
Some of the services we hope to make available soon are:
- Apply for a job online
- Register to receive e-mail alerts on topics of interest
- Access our leisure directory
- Increased use of online mapping
- More detailed waste and recycling collection calendar
County Council services online
Gloucestershire County Council also provides a number of its services online including:
- Payment of invoices
- Form for reporting a faulty street light
- Search the library catalogue, renew and reserve books
- Book a free session on a computer in a library
- Search council properties for sale
- Make enquiries about record office records
See http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid= 42 for quick links to all of these services.
Other online services
DirectGov online services makes it easy for you to apply for some services provided by government departments and agencies. The following services are available:
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for Pension Credit
- Apply for Child Benefit
- Claim Carer's Allowance
- Find local Childcare
- Information for learner and newly qualified drivers and riders
- Book a driving theory test
- Check, change or cancel a theory test
- Book a practical test
- Check, change or cancel a practical test
- Find your nearest theory / practical test centres, and test routes
- Search family records
- Find a job
- Choose a school
- Complete your tax return
- Foreign travel advice - for those travelling abroad from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Report terrorist activity
- Make a consumer complaint
- Nominate someone for an honour
- Report a minor crime (non emergency)
Go to the DirectGov homepage to see a complete list of the services you can apply for online.
CONTACTS
E-Government
Cotswold District Council, Trinity Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1PX
Telephone: 01285 623 000