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How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Complain to your council if they have done something wrong, failed to provide a service or not followed correct procedures
The law on squatting - what squatting is, squatters' rights, removing squatters, getting your property back from squatters and adverse possession. Includes information from the withdrawn EX332 and EX333 guidance.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for business properties - apply, exemptions, displaying a certificate, fines and penalties
Get information from your local council about asbestos in your home and how to dispose of it safely
If you're under 18, you cannot usually rent your own home, but you'll be on the priority list for council housing - your rights and what happens if you want to leave home
Get on the electoral register so you can vote in elections and referendums as a member of the armed forces.
Apply to the tribunal about a rent increase decision, changes to a lease or a decision about a council house, park home or caravan, in England.
Your local library offers many services like book loans, CD rental and internet access - contact your council for more information
If your employment means that you cannot vote in person and you've missed the deadline to apply for a proxy vote, then you can apply to vote by emergency proxy.
Contact your council about funding and grants for your project - activities for young people, volunteer programmes, development of communal facilities
Many councils provide community alarm services to support independent living in your own home
Contact your council to find resources and support to help when you have to cope with a death
How your council encourages attendance at school - truancy, unauthorised absences, education welfare officer
Eviction of council or housing association tenants: grounds for eviction, notice period, and what a court can decide
Report litter to your local council
Find sheltered or supported housing from your council with facilities such as alarms or wardens: for elderly, disabled or vulnerable people
Join a competent person scheme to self-certify certain types of building work instead of getting building regulations approval from a council or private inspector - how to join, current schemes
Rights of way and right to roam - access rights of way, open access and permissive access land, use common lands, the Countryside Code, report problems.
As a tenant renting out a commercial property, you have certain responsibilities including maintenance, health and safety, and making provisions for your staff and visitors
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