Housing and communities

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Services

• Search for land and property information

  Find a property and get its title plan, title register and see who owns it

• Housing Benefit

  Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.

• Find out your rubbish collection day

  Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected

• Apply for council housing

  Apply for council housing through your local council - you'll usually have to join a waiting list

• Search sold property prices

  Find out how much a property sold for in England or Wales

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Guidance and regulation

• HM Land Registry: Registration Services fees
  • Detailed guide
  • 20 April 2023
  • HM Land Registry
• Contact HM Land Registry
  • Detailed guide
  • 14 December 2023
  • HM Land Registry
• Assured tenancy forms
  • Detailed guide
  • 15 September 2023
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• How to rent
  • Guidance
  • 2 October 2023
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Start paying Council Tax
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 January 2016
  • Valuation Office Agency

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News and communications

• Deputy Prime Minister speech at Social Housing Conference
  • 20 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Speech
• Future of social housing protected through Right to Buy reforms
  • 20 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Press release
• RSH Chair highlights landlords’ role in achieving more and better social housing
  • 20 November 2024
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Press release
• CIL Appeal 1829571 – 14 Sep 23 – Erection of two storey building
  • 14 November 2024
  • Valuation Office Agency
  • Decision
• CIL Appeal 1824641 – 01 Sep 23 – Change of Use of the warehouse at Plot L1 from its approved use as a former data centre (Class B8) to a food processing, storage and distribution factory (Class B2)
  • 14 November 2024
  • Valuation Office Agency
  • Decision

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Research and statistics

• Index of Private Housing Rental Prices UK: October 2024
  • 20 November 2024
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• UK House Price Index: September 2024
  • 20 November 2024
  • Office for National Statistics
  • National statistics
• Schedule of updates and announcements for VOA’s statistics
  • 7 November 2024
  • Valuation Office Agency
  • Official statistics
• Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) report
  • 7 November 2024
  • Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
  • Research
• Supported Housing Review 2023
  • 4 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Reforming the Right to Buy
  • 20 November 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 15 January 2025
• Consultation on future social housing rent policy
  • 30 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 23 December 2024
• Consultation on reforms to social housing allocations
  • 2 September 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 26 March 2024
• A review of the increased Right to Buy discounts introduced in 2012
  • 30 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper
• UK government response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s market study into housebuilding
  • 22 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Registered providers of social housing – updated monthly
  • 20 November 2024
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• List of non-submission of annual accounts
  • 7 November 2024
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• Homes England spend for transactions over £250
  • 29 October 2024
  • Homes England
  • Transparency
• RSH Board minutes 2024
  • 28 October 2024
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• RSH Nominations and Remuneration Committee minutes 2024
  • 24 October 2024
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Regulator of Social Housing
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Homes England
• Valuation Office Agency
• HM Treasury

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• Department for Work & Pensions
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department of Health & Social Care
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Planning Inspectorate
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Department for Transport
• Department for Education
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• District Valuer Services (DVS)
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Bona Vacantia
• Government Legal Department
• Companies House
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
• Office for Place
• Tribunal Procedure Committee
• UK Health Security Agency
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Coal Authority
• Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
• Department for Business & Trade
• Disability Unit
• Government Actuary's Department
• HM Prison & Probation Service
• Office for Equality and Opportunity
• Official Solicitor and Public Trustee
• Open Public Services
• UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation
• Women and Equalities Unit

• HM Land Registry
• Environment Agency
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Natural England
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
• The Charity Commission
• Military Aviation Authority
• Social Security Advisory Committee
• Subsidy Advice Unit

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• Being a landlord and renting out a room
• Council housing and housing association
• Freehold and leasehold property
• Homebuying
• Homelessness and rough sleeping
• Housing for older and vulnerable people
• Housing funding programmes
• Housing regulation
• Neighbours, noise and pests
• Owning and renting a property
• Recycling, rubbish, streets and roads
• Rented housing sector
• Repossessions, emergency housing and evictions
• Safety and the environment in your community
• Tenancies and leases
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