Services

Local authorities help Approved Housing Bodies to manage, buy, build or lease properties for social housing.

Local authorities assess applications for social housing based on housing need. Approved applicants are placed on the housing list which is reviewed each year.

You must apply to the local authority for a permit if you want to erect a memorial plaque, tree or bench to honour a person, group of people or significant event.

Local authorities provide information and advice about local authority mortgages such as repayments, interest charges, account statements and insurance.

Local authorities may support someone to move in with an existing tenant in a local authority property.

Local authorities may provide social housing to you if you qualify and cannot afford to rent or buy your own home.

Local authorities may support travellers living in social housing, group housing schemes or halting sites.

Local authorities may plant, prune and fell tree in public parks, open green spaces, along roadsides, on roundabouts and in authorised housing estates to protect and maintain them.