Welcome to our great city

How to talk to us about your care needs, keep adults safe, support in your home, travel passes, care homes, and support for carers

Deaths and stillbirths, births, marriages, civil partnerships and ceremonies, certificates, approved premises licences and coroner services.

Freedom of information, council budget, open data

Information about licensing, regulation and support for businesses.

What business rates are, how to pay your business rates, business rates reliefs and exemptions, report a change in circumstances, BID levy

Caring for adults, caring for children, support for carers, report neglect or abuse

Community support, asylum and immigration, grants and funding, information for students

As council residents, you are the best people to tell us how our services are performing and where we can improve.

Elections and voting, councillors and wards, committees and meetings, have your say, youth democracy

Apply for council housing, pay your rent, request a repair, swap your council home, and have your say as a tenant

Pay your council tax, tell us you're moving, report a change in circumstances, find information on discounts, exemptions and reductions, and other help available  

Registering to vote, how to vote, standing for election, previous election results

How to apply for council housing, rent a private property, get homelessness support and find affordable housing

Current vacancies, apprenticeships, volunteering, skills and training

Find out how to join a library, use its services, book spaces, and get help with digital skills.

Find information on our parks and allotments, apply for an allotment, hire sports pitches and view events hosted by us.

Planning applications, building regulations, protected trees, ecology, urban design, archaeology and local land charges

Find out when your bins are collected, report a missed bin, or find out what you can recycle and where.

If you have been refused a place at a school you have the right to appeal against the decision. You are not able to submit an appeal until you have been formally refused a place at a school, this means once you have received a letter or email telling you that you don’t have a place.

School term dates, find and apply for a school place, nurseries, SEND support