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• Council Tax and benefits

  • Pay Council Tax

    • Council Tax enforcement

    • Where your Council Tax goes

  • Council Tax Support

  • Council Tax discounts and exemptions

    • Reductions for empty properties

    • Council Tax completion notice

  • Council Tax bands, charges and appeals

  • Housing Benefit and Universal Credit

    • Apply for Housing Benefit

    • Backdating benefit

    • Appeal a benefit decision

    • Universal Credit

    • Report a change in benefit circumstances

    • Report a fraud

    • Discretionary Housing Payments

    • Advice for landlords

  • 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 the cost of living

    • Support available in your community

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

  • External support agencies

• Bins and recycling

  • What to put in your bin

    • General waste: Grey wheelie bin

    • Recycling: Black box, white and blue bag

    • Food waste: kitchen caddy

    • Garden waste: Green wheelie bin and brown sacks

  • Reduce and reuse your waste

  • 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 you can get rid of or not

  • Clinical and medical waste

  • Collections in bad weather

  • Coronavirus - Bins and recycling

• Planning and building

  • Planning permission

    • Planning committee

    • Planning appeals

    • Step by step guide to planning permission

    • Find out if you need planning permission

    • Get advice on your planning application

    • View planning applications

    • Report breach of planning regulations

    • Make a planning application

  • Building regulations

    • Book a building inspection

    • Apply for building regulations approval

    • Unauthorised building work

    • Demolitions

    • Dangerous structures

    • Find out if you need building regulations approval

    • View building control applications

  • Planning policy

    • Neighbourhood planning

    • Article 3 and 4 directions

    • Holiday home guidance

    • Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment

    • Local Plan 2011 to 2031

    • Local plan update and supporting information

    • Evidence base and monitoring

  • Community Infrastructure Levy

    • Are you liable for CIL

    • Calculate your CIL charge

    • CIL Appeals

    • Infrastructure spending and funding

    • CIL process and forms to submit

  • Street naming and numbering

  • Local land charges

  • Tree works and preservation

    • Tree Preservation Orders

    • Hedgerow protection and management

    • Trees in conservation areas

    • High hedges

    • Find an arboricultural or tree expert

  • Landscape

    • Historic parks and gardens

    • Cotswold Water Park

    • Landscape character

    • Landscape development and planning

  • Wildlife and biodiversity

    • Biodiversity and planning policy

    • Biodiversity specifications

    • Biodiversity and development management

    • Ecological assessments

    • Great crested newt district licensing scheme

    • Habitats regulations assessment

  • Historic buildings and conservation areas

    • Listed buildings

    • Buildings at risk

    • Conservation area maps

    • Scheduled monuments

  • Cotswold design guidance

    • Local design guidance

    • Design and access statement

    • Grants for environmental and heritage projects

    • Historic building features

• Business and licensing

  • Business rates and rate relief

    • Paying your business rates

    • Business rates review

    • Calculating your business rates

    • Rate relief

    • Unoccupied properties

    • Business rates data

    • Business rate changes 2023

    • Holiday let changes 2023

  • Invest in the Cotswolds

  • Apply or renew business licences and permits

    • Licensing Public Register

    • Taxi and private hire licensing

    • Alcohol and entertainment

    • Animal licences

    • Caravan and campsites

    • Street trading

    • Charity collections

    • Scrap metal

    • Sex establishments

    • Organising public events

    • Acupuncture, tattooing, piercing, electrolysis

    • Hypnotism

    • Filming in Cotswold District

    • Pavement licence

    • Gambling

  • Business services

    • Commercial waste

    • Meeting and conference facilities

    • Food businesses

    • Health and safety at work

  • Business support and advice

    • Training

    • Rural England Prosperity Fund

    • Help for struggling businesses

  • Tenders and contracts

  • Land and property assets

  • Brexit advice and information

  • Coronavirus - Business and licensing

    • Business recovery

    • Discretionary business grants

• About the Council

  • Elections and voting

    • Register to vote

    • Current and future elections

    • Election results

    • Elected representatives

    • Annual canvass

    • Boundary reviews

    • Voter ID - what you need to do for the May 2023 elections

  • Careers

    • Current vacancies

  • Councillors and committees

    • Code of conduct for district councillors

    • The Council's Constitution

    • Council meetings and minutes

    • Cabinet decision making

    • Find a district councillor

  • Council data and access to information

    • Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations

    • Data protection

    • Counter fraud, bribery and corruption

    • Council data and information listings Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

  • Having your say

    • Comments and complaints

    • Budget consultation

    • Public participation

    • Consultations

  • Our budget

    • What we delivered with your Council Tax in 2021

    • Cotswold District Council budget for 2022/23

    • Investing in the Cotswolds

    • Town and Parish Council precepts

  • Council spending

  • Policies and strategies

  • Equality and diversity

  • Our aims and priorities

  • The Leader of the Council

  • Cabinet roles and responsibilities

  • Live council meetings and webcasts

  • Census 2021

  • Parish and town councils

  • Gloucestershire County Council

• Housing

  • Apply for housing

  • Housing advice

  • Community led housing

  • Homelessness support and advice

  • Private housing

    • Fit to rent - tenants information

    • Houses in multiple occupation

    • Housing grants

    • Fit to rent - landlord information

    • Empty homes

    • Selling or renting your former council property

    • Self build housing

    • Advice for landlords and tenants

    • Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards

    • Warm and Well

  • Housing strategy and policy

  • Coronavirus - Housing

• Environment

  • Report fly tipping

  • Flooding

    • Blocked drains and sewers

    • Watercourses and ditches

    • Flood reports and reviews

    • What to do during a flood

    • Recovering after a flood

    • Report flooding

    • How to prepare for flooding

    • Cotswolds flood wardens scheme

  • Cotswold Climate Investment

  • Noise, pests, pollution and air quality

    • Air quality

    • Noise and other nuisances

    • Environmental permits

    • Contaminated land

    • Pest control

  • Litter, street cleaning and dog fouling

    • Abandoned shopping trolleys

  • Climate action

    • Energy efficiency and affordable warmth

    • Home energy conservation strategy

    • Cotswold climate and ecological emergencies

    • How to achieve net zero carbon homes

  • Animals and wildlife

    • Dogs lost and found

    • Wildlife

  • Food hygiene complaints

  • Grass verges and cutting

  • Cemeteries and estates

    • Public health funerals

  • Private water supplies

  • Abandoned vehicles

  • Clean and Green Cotswolds

    • Signs for Sale

• Communities and leisure

  • Support for communities

    • Community rights

    • Emergency planning

    • Community Right to Bid

    • Support for refugees

    • Supporting older people

    • Supporting children and families

    • Cotswold Careline

    • Ukraine support

  • Community safety

    • Domestic abuse

    • Hate crime

    • Anti-social behaviour

    • Community safety partnership

  • European Union Settlement Scheme

  • Community grants and funding

    • Cotswold Connected Community and Food Programme

  • Leisure centres and museums

  • Voluntary and community organisations

  • What’s on

  • Allotments

  • Promoting health and well-being

  • Coronavirus - Community support

• Parking, travel and visitors

  • Pay or appeal a parking fine

  • Parking permits

    • Season ticket - Terms and conditions

  • Where to park

  • Parking and travel strategy and orders

  • Parking projects

  • Visitor information centres

  • Tourism website

  • Public toilets

  • Report a car park issue

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