We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
How to fully or partly repay your equity loan - with your own money, when you sell your home or when you remortgage.
Contact your council to find out if they provide pest control services to remove pests like wasps, rats, mice and bedbugs
Exchanging your council or housing association property if you want to move house - tenants, rules, permission from landlords, mutual exchange
Appeal a decision by your local planning authority about an application for planning permission - documents you need to provide, who can appeal, how long it takes
Application form FR1 and checklist for first registration.
Using deposit protection schemes - the official schemes, information you must give tenants, what happens if you do not protect a deposit, disputes and advice
How to take court action to repossess a property or evict a tenant if you're owed money for rent or a mortgage
Find out if your council collects recycling, how to recycle household waste such as mobile phones, computers, packaging and green waste
Application form AS1: for personal representative(s) to assent the whole of a registered title.
Protect your right to live in a registered or unregistered property owned by your spouse or civil partner during a divorce or separation - getting home rights, after a continuation order
Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage
Application form SEV to enter a Form A restriction on severance of joint tenancy by agreement or notice.
How to report faulty or broken traffic lights depends on where you live and the type of road
Report potholes on A roads, motorways and local roads to the council
In smoke control areas you can only use certain types of fuel or exempt appliances - find out if you live in one and what you can burn
Application form HR1 for registration of a notice of home rights.
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
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.
Get information from your local council about asbestos in your home and how to dispose of it safely
Application form ID3 to prove your identity when lodging an application to HM Land Registry.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).