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  • Contacting your regional Valuation Office for Council Tax and business (non-domestic) rates enquiries.

  • Making thank you payments to sponsors, including across different councils. Also checking if guests are paying rent to sponsors, and what to do if they are.

  • Find out how tenants and letting agents in the UK pay tax on behalf of landlords abroad under the Non-resident Landlord (NRL) Scheme.

  • Guidance for heat suppliers.

  • Smart meters put consumers in control of their energy use, allowing them to adopt energy efficiency measures that can help save money on their energy bills and offset price increases.

  • Get information about biodiversity gain sites and any off-site gains allocated to developments.

  • Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.

  • This guide is for current private residential landlords and anyone interested in letting a property in the private rented sector.

  • Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.

  • Information relating to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill which was introduced to Parliament on 27 November 2023.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.

  • How leases are determined and how this affects registered titles (practice guide 26).

  • Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.

  • Applying for first registration of land where the title deeds have been lost or destroyed (practice guide 2).

  • When to use standing advice on site-specific flood risk assessments, and when to consult the Environment Agency.

  • Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.

  • The information required by the Regulator of Social Housing and the deadlines for submission.

  • How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.

  • Guidance for landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts in England.

  • The A to Z list links to all landlords with a published regulatory judgement. Regulatory judgements are our published view of how well a landlord is delivering the outcomes of our standards.