Apply
You can apply for many services online, just follow the links below:
Council tax
- Pay your council tax via direct debit
Please note that if you need to let us know of a change of your bank account details you will need to fill in a new direct debit form - Council tax - receive your bill electronically
- Change of address form for council tax
- Change of circumstances form for council tax
- Council tax requested evidence form
- Council tax refund form
- Council tax tenancy information form (Landlords can advise us of a change of occupancy to their property)
- Enquiry form
Discount and help application forms
- Apprentice discount application form
- Care workers and carers discount application form
- Child benefit recipients discount application form
- Disabled band reduction application form
- Detention discount application form
- Empty and unfurnished discount application form
- Exceptional hardship relief form for council tax
- Council tax occupied annexe discount
- Patients in hospital or care home discount application form
- School/college leavers discount application form
- Second home discount application form
- Severely mentally impaired discount application form
- Single occupancy discount application form
- Council tax single person discount cancellation form
- Students discount application form
- Uninhabitable discount application form
- Youth training trainees discount application form
- Application for discount for a property requiring or undergoing major/structural alteration. Please read this document which advises the types of repair and alteration included.
Benefits
Change of circumstances
- Benefits change of circumstances form including moving out of the area
- Benefits change of address form due to moving within the area
- Benefits application form for extra bedroom provision due to a disabled person [docx] 30KB
Apply for support
- Discretionary housing payment claim form
- Extra bedroom provision due to a disabled child application form [docx] 33KB
- Housing benefit and council tax support claim form
- Council tax exceptional hardship relief form
Supporting documentation
Business rates
- Pay your business rates via direct debit
- Occupation form - advising of occupation of business premises
- Small business rate relief
- Vacation form - to advise when moving out of business premises
- Business rates refund form
- Local Discretionary Relief Application for Business Rates
Housing
- Social housing application
- Apply for a council garage
- Disabled facilities grant
- Right to buy your home (RTB1 form)
- Right to Buy Additional Information [pdf] 146KB