Reducing and recycling waste
Find a Tidy Tip or a local recycling point, simpler recycling, how to recycle different materials including plastics and metals, recycle small electrical items, cash back for real nappies.
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Find a Tidy Tip or a local recycling point
Where to find your local tip, where to find your local recycling point or bottle bank, opening times, what you can recycle and where to take it.
Commercial and trade waste bins for your business
Commercial and trade waste bins for your business, including administration and hire charges.
Apply to the council for permission
Apply to the council online by submitting your consultation letter, risk assessment and proposed dates and times for the Play Street.
Organising a Play Street event: step by step
A play street is a neighbour led, temporary road closure that creates space for children to play and communities to connect, with applications due several months in advance depending on the start date and valid for multiple sessions across the year.
Renew your resident parking permit
How to renew your annual resident parking permit.
Refusing an exchange
There's a number of reasons a council home exchange can be refused, including evictions or extensive adaptations.
Register your property on HomeSwapper
Register for a mutual exchange of your council home on the HomeSwapper website.
Talk to neighbours and build support
Consult neighbours informally and by letter about your Play Street plans, address any objections, and note that full agreement isn’t required, but the council may refuse applications only if there are serious safety or access concerns.
Understand what a Play Street is
A Play Street is a short, resident led temporary road closure that allows children to play safely outside and requires council approval plus a local organiser and small volunteer team to manage it.