Central Bedfordshire Council

How can we help you today?

• COVID-19 - Coronavirus

  • Health advice - COVID-19
  • How is the council responding?
  • Impact on council services
  • Schools
  • Supporting vulnerable residents
  • Supporting voluntary effort
  • Support for local business
  • Support for individuals in hardship
  • Support for young people

• Planning

  • View planning applications
  • Local Plan
  • Quick guide to planning
  • Planning glossary - our planning jargon buster
  • Make a planning application
  • View weekly list of planning applications
  • Comment on planning applications
  • Building control
  • Minerals and waste
  • Planning Policy

• Waste and recycling

  • Tidy tips - book a slot to visit a tidy tip
  • Bins and waste collections
  • Order food waste bags, garden waste sacks or a bin
  • Report a missed bin collection
  • Recycling different types of waste
  • Bulky waste collections
  • Reuse shop at Thorn Turn
  • Report fly-tipping
  • Bottle and textile banks
  • Clinical waste

• Schools and education

  • School term dates
  • School transport
  • School admissions
  • Directory of schools
  • School closures - emergencies / bad weather
  • School attendance
  • Virtual school
  • Schools for the future
  • Schools performance
  • School governors

• Jobs, skills and adult learning

  • Council jobs
  • Register for job alerts
  • Jobs in schools
  • Careers in Children's Early Intervention and Social Work
  • Apprenticeships
  • Adult Learning
  • Helping you into work
  • Your job application
  • Equal opportunities
  • Why it's great to work in Central Bedfordshire

• Council Tax

  • My Account - manage Council Tax online
  • Pay Council Tax online
  • Pay Council Tax by Direct Debit
  • Find your Council Tax band
  • Council Tax charges - check how much you will pay
  • Council Tax discounts and exemptions
  • Moving home - changes to Council Tax
  • Council Tax band changes
  • Pay Council Tax by telephone
  • Completion Notices and Council Tax on new properties

• Transport, roads and parking

  • Roadworks
  • Public transport
  • Report and track roads and highways problems
  • A421 upgrade
  • Bus pass
  • Blue Badge and disabled parking bays
  • Report abandoned vehicles
  • Parking permits
  • Parking fines
  • Car parks

• Registration and Coroner

  • Current inquests
  • Marriages, civil partnerships and celebratory services
  • Registrar offices - addresses and opening hours
  • Register a birth
  • Register a death
  • Copy certificates
  • Proposed crematorium
  • Coroner Service
  • Wedding and civil partnership venues
  • Licensed premises

• About your council

  • Electoral Registration and Elections
  • Customer feedback
  • Councillors
  • Public and statutory notices
  • Consultations
  • Committees, meetings and agendas
  • Webcasting
  • Statistics and census information

• Business

  • Business rates
  • My Account - manage business rates online
  • Procurement and tenders
  • Food hygiene training
  • Licensing
  • Superfast broadband
  • Trading Standards
  • Business advice
  • Major developments
  • Be scam aware
  • Local economic information and policy

• Housing

  • Apply to join the Housing Register
  • Property adverts and how to bid for housing
  • Housing benefit
  • Paying your rent
  • Council housing repairs
  • Homelessness
  • Public health funerals
  • Mutual exchange and rightsizing
  • Apply to rent a council garage
  • Local land charges

• Children and young people

  • Child protection
  • Adoption
  • Fostering
  • Childcare and Early years
  • SEN and disability
  • Children with disabilities
  • Youth Support Service
  • Supported Lodgings
  • Free childcare for 2 year olds
  • Free childcare for all 3 and 4-year olds

• Health and social care

  • Adults and older people
  • Adults with a disability
  • Paying for care
  • Help an elderly relative stay in their own home
  • Support for care providers
  • Protecting vulnerable adults
  • Care Quality Commission (CQC)
  • Carers
  • Health advice
  • Mental health
  • Disabled Facilities Grant

• Leisure and countryside

  • Countryside
  • Leisure centres
  • Active lifestyles
  • Libraries
  • Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre - events
  • The Grove Theatre
  • Public rights of way
  • Cycling in the countryside
  • Walking in the countryside
  • Definitive map

• Benefits

  • My Account - manage benefits online
  • Housing benefit
  • Free school meals
  • Council Tax support
  • Report a chance of circumstances
  • Extra help and appeals
  • Council Tax support
  • Universal Credit
  • Change of circumstances
  • Under-occupation
  • Information for landlords

• Environmental services

  • Pest control
  • Fly-tipping
  • Street cleaning
  • Water quality
  • Commercial pollution
  • Domestic pollution
  • Climate change
  • Archaeology, Heritage & Conservation
  • Air quality
  • Abandoned vehicles

• Community safety

  • Report anti-social behaviour
  • Barking dogs
  • Stray dogs
  • Dog warden service
  • Report and track roads and highways problems
  • Report abandoned vehicles
  • Dog control orders
  • Gypsy and Traveller unauthorised encampments
  • CCTV
  • Domestic abuse

• Self service

  • Request replacement food bags, garden sacks, bins or containers
  • Report a missed collection for waste or recycling
  • Request sharps / clinical collections
  • Apply for school transport

• Pay online - pay a bill

  • Pay housing rent
  • Pay Council Tax
  • Pay sundry invoices
  • Pay back an overpayment

• Summer weather

  • Heat-health watch (Met Office)
  • Heatwave advice
  • Sunscreen and sun safety (NHS)
  • Keeping pets cool in hot weather (RSPCA)
  • Prevent dehydration (NHS)
  • Sun safety for children (NHS)
  • Sunburn (NHS)
  • Respect the water (RNLI)
  • Stay safe near open water (Beds Fire)