Central Bedfordshire Council

How can we help you today?

• Waste and recycling

  • Book to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
  • Bins and waste collections
  • Order bins and sacks
  • Garden waste subscription service
  • Report a missed bin collection
  • Clinical waste
  • Bulky waste collections
  • Recycling different types of waste
  • Report fly-tipping
  • Pest control
  • Bottle and textile banks

• 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

• Planning

  • Do I need planning permission?
  • Planning advice
  • Make a planning application
  • What you need for a planning application - advice for a homeowner
  • What you need for a planning application - advice for a non-homeowner
  • View planning applications
  • I want to comment on a planning application
  • Contact the planning delivery service
  • Local Plan
  • New Local Plan
  • Building control
  • Minerals and waste

• Council Tax

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

• Transport, roads and parking

  • Roadworks
  • Report and track roads and highways problems
  • Potholes - make a report and see how many we are fixing
  • Public transport
  • Parking fines
  • Blue Badge and disabled parking bays
  • Salting and gritting
  • Bus pass
  • Parking permits
  • Report abandoned vehicles
  • Car parks

• Schools and education

  • School term dates
  • School transport
  • School admissions
  • Directory of schools
  • School closures - emergencies / bad weather
  • School attendance
  • Virtual school
  • School changes – three-tier to two-tier
  • Schools performance
  • School governors

• Jobs, skills and adult learning

  • Working here
  • Job application process
  • Jobs in schools
  • Careers in Children's Early Intervention and Social Work
  • Apprenticeships
  • How to get a career in adult social care
  • Work experience
  • Adult Learning
  • Equal opportunities

• Registration and Coroner

  • Coroner Service (including inquests)
  • Marriages, civil partnerships and celebratory services
  • Registrar offices - addresses and opening hours
  • Register a birth
  • Register a death
  • Copy certificates
  • Oakfield Gardens Crematorium (external website)
  • Licensed premises
  • Treasure inquests

• 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
  • Change of circumstances
  • Under-occupation
  • Information for landlords

• 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, libraries 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

• About your council

  • Electoral Registration and Elections
  • Councillors
  • Consultations and Engagement - Your Voice Matters
  • Customer feedback
  • Public and statutory notices
  • Committees, meetings and agendas
  • Webcasting
  • Statistics and census information
  • Central Bedfordshire 2050 - a great place to live and work
  • HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire

• Children and young people

  • Child protection
  • Adoption
  • Fostering
  • Help with childcare costs
  • Childcare and Early years
  • SEN and disability
  • Children with disabilities
  • Youth Support Service

• Environmental services

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

• 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

• Community safety

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

• Support with the cost of living

  • Council Tax Support
  • Universal Credit and getting help with childcare costs
  • Difficulty paying Council Tax
  • Debt advice for council tenants
  • Risk of becoming homeless
  • Benefits and financial support for carers
  • Housing Benefit and Universal Credit
  • Free school meals

• Ukraine - sponsors and Ukrainian guests

  • Initial checks on sponsor's accommodation
  • Payments for guests and sponsors
  • Sponsors and guests advice on accommodation
  • Setting up a bank account
  • Financial support
  • Education and training
  • Health advice
  • Mental health support
  • Government guides

• Self-service: Log in and log out of your account

  • Book to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
  • Order bins and sacks
  • Report a missed bin collection
  • 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

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• Summer weather

  • Heatwave: how to cope in hot weather (NHS)
  • Sunscreen and sun safety (NHS)
  • Prevent dehydration (NHS)
  • Sun safety for children (NHS)
  • Sunburn (NHS)
  • Heat exhaustion and heatstroke
  • Severe weather emergency protocol (SWEP)
  • Hay fever (NHS)