Our sitemap

• Council Tax and benefits
  • Pay Council Tax
    • Liability, legislation and general information about Council Tax
    • Council Tax enforcement
    • Where your Council Tax goes
  • External support agencies
  • Council Tax Support
  • Council Tax discounts and exemptions
    • Reductions for empty properties
    • Single person discount review
  • Council Tax bands, charges and appeals
  • Housing Benefit and Universal Credit
    • Backdating benefit
    • Appeal a benefit decision
    • Apply for Housing Benefit
    • Universal Credit
    • Report a change in benefit circumstances
    • Report benefit fraud
    • Discretionary Housing Payments
  • 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 living costs
    • How you can support your local community through the cost of living crisis
    • Support available in your community
  • Second homes
  • Council Tax and Business Rate Payment Issue
• Bins and recycling
  • What to put in your bin
    • General waste: Black wheelie bin
    • Recycling: Green boxes and blue bag
    • Food waste: kitchen and outdoor caddy
    • Garden waste: Green wheelie bin
  • What happens to your recycling
  • Report a missed bin collection
  • Request bins and recycling boxes
  • Check your collection day
  • Recycling banks and centres
  • Get help with your collection
  • Getting rid of large items
    • What we will collect
  • Clinical and medical waste
  • Collections in bad weather
  • Reduce and reuse your waste
  • Coronavirus - Bins and recycling
• Planning and building
  • Self-build housing
  • Community Infrastructure Levy
  • Sustainable Economy
    • Cinderford Northern Quarter
    • Five Acres redevelopment site
    • Town Centre Monitoring
    • Regeneration Partnerships
    • Cinderford Future High Street Fund
    • Forest of Dean Levelling Up Fund
  • Street naming and numbering
  • Local land charges
    • Fees
  • Tree works and preservation
    • Register of tree preservation orders
  • Wildlife and biodiversity
    • Great crested newt district licensing scheme
    • Ecological assessments
    • Biodiversity specifications
    • Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
    • Habitats Regulations Assessment - Severn Estuary
  • Historic buildings and conservation areas
    • Conservation areas
    • Listed buildings
    • Registered Parks and Gardens
    • Non-designated heritage assets
    • Scheduled Ancient Monuments
    • Buildings at risk
    • Heritage Character Assessment
  • Planning policy
    • Developing our new Residential Design Guide
    • What is the Local Plan?
    • Our current Local Plan
    • Developing our new Local Plan
    • Get involved
    • Supporting information for the Local Plan 2041
    • Neighbourhood planning
    • Sustainability appraisal
    • Landscape character assessment
    • Flood risk assessment
    • Gypsy traveller and travelling showpeople sites
    • Strategic housing land availability assessment
    • Supplementary planning documents
    • Developer and community forums
  • Planning permission
    • Planning appeals
    • Development Management Committee
    • Find out if you need planning permission
    • Get advice on your planning application
    • View planning applications
    • Report breach of planning regulations
    • Step by step guide to planning permission
    • Footpaths
    • Make a planning application
  • Building regulations
    • Book a building inspection
    • Unauthorised building work
    • Demolitions
    • Dangerous structures
    • Find out if you need building regulations approval
    • Apply for building regulations approval
    • View building control applications
  • Biosphere
• Business and licensing
  • Business rates and rate relief
    • Paying your business rates
    • Calculating your business rates
    • Rate relief
    • Unoccupied properties
    • Business rate changes 2023
    • Holiday let changes 2023
    • Report a change in circumstances for businesses
  • Apply or renew business licences and permits
    • Licensing Public Register
    • Pavement licence
    • Acupuncture, tattooing, piercing, electrolysis
    • Alcohol and entertainment
    • Animal licences
    • Caravan and campsites
    • Charity collections
    • Hypnotism
    • Organising public events
    • Street trading
    • Scrap metal
    • Sex establishments
    • Taxi and private hire licensing
    • Gambling
  • Commercial property and assets
  • Tenders and contracts
  • Business services
    • Commercial waste and recycling
    • Health and safety at work
    • Food businesses
  • Business support and advice
    • Remote Forest Directory
    • Business networking and events
    • Forest Economic Partnership
    • Finance and funding
    • Training and apprenticeships
    • Business parks and business centres
  • Invest in the Forest of Dean
    • UK Shared Prosperity Fund
    • Rural England Prosperity Fund
• About the council
  • Elections and voting
    • Register to vote
    • Helping you to vote - disabled access and information
    • Current and future elections
    • Election results
    • Elected representatives
    • Polling districts and places
    • Types of elections
    • Annual household canvass
    • Electoral boundary reviews
    • Elections Act 2022 - Voter ID and other changes
    • Reapplying for a postal vote
  • Councillors and committees
    • Find a district councillor
    • Council meetings and minutes
    • The Council's Constitution
    • Code of conduct for councillors
    • Allowances for district councillors
    • Future Cabinet decisions - the executive forward plan
    • Allowances for parish and town councillors
    • Member Champions
  • Council data and information
    • Frequent FOI requests
    • Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations
    • Data protection
    • Council data and information listings Freedom of Information Publication Scheme
  • Plans and policies
    • Policies and strategies
    • Equality and diversity
  • Council performance and spending
    • Council performance
    • Finance and expenditure
    • Counter fraud, bribery and corruption
  • Having your say
    • Comments and complaints
    • Consultations
    • Public participation
    • Current consultations
  • Parish and town councils
  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Our partners
  • The Leader of the Council
  • Cabinet roles and responsibilities
  • Careers
    • Current vacancies
  • Council functions and responsibilities
  • Public notices
• Housing
  • Community led housing
  • Housing associations
  • Forest Linkline
  • Apply for housing
  • Housing advice
    • Domestic abuse and housing
    • Housing options for older people
  • Homelessness support and advice
    • Homeless housing options
    • priority for housing
  • Private housing
    • Advice for landlords and tenants
    • Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards
    • Housing grants
    • Empty homes
    • Houses in multiple occupation
    • Warm and Well
  • Coronavirus - Housing
  • Housing strategy
• Environment
  • Flooding
    • Parish flood defences
    • How to prepare for flooding
    • Report flooding
    • Recovering after a flood
    • What to do during a flood
    • Watercourses and ditches
    • Blocked drains and sewers
    • Rapid Response Catchments
  • Noise, pests, pollution and air quality
    • Air quality
    • Noise and other nuisances
    • Environmental permits
    • Contaminated land
    • Pest control
    • Asbestos risk after a fire
  • Fly tipping
  • Litter, street cleaning and dog fouling
    • Report graffiti or fly-posting
    • Abandoned shopping trolleys
  • Animals and wildlife
    • Report a dead animal
    • Dogs lost and found
    • Animal welfare
    • Free-roaming sheep
  • Food hygiene complaints
  • Deaths, funerals, cremations and cemeteries
  • Private water supplies
  • Abandoned vehicles
  • Landscape and grounds maintenance
    • High hedges
    • Invasive and non-native weeds
    • Countryside hedgerows
    • Working on protected trees
    • Tree maintenance
  • Climate Action
    • How to achieve net zero carbon homes
    • Climate action and what we are doing
    • Get involved with local climate action
    • Our route to carbon neutral
    • Climate action you can take
    • Home energy efficiency upgrade advice and support
    • Climate case studies
• Communities, health and leisure
  • Forest Lottery
  • Community health and wellbeing
    • Dementia awareness
    • Winter wellness
    • Healthy lifestyle classes
    • The healthy lifestyles scheme
  • Community safety
    • Domestic abuse
    • Antisocial behaviour
    • Community Safety Partnership
    • Street wardens
    • CCTV
    • Drug and alcohol support
    • Protecting children and vulnerable adults
    • Serious Violence Duty
    • Prevent Duty
  • Support for communities
    • Emergency planning
    • Community Right to Bid
    • Support for refugees
    • Ukraine support
    • Imjin Veteran Memorial - the Korean War
    • Forest of Dean Armed Forces Support Network
    • Shop local, Support local this festive season
  • Leisure centres and leisure activities
    • Newent area - community activities
  • Community grants and funding
• Parking, travel and visitors
  • Pay or appeal a parking fine
  • Car parks and charges
    • car parks
  • Parking and travel orders
  • Forest of Dean tourism
  • Public toilets
  • Parking permits
  • Visit Lydney Harbour
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