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This is the apply for it page where you can apply for most of our services.
Benefits
- Additional bedroom for overnight carer/s
- Backdating request
- Change of room in the same hostel (For hostel providers only)
- Child care costs (To be printed and passed to the provider for completion)
- Claim form
- Change in Circumstances
- Consent to discuss Housing Benefit/Council Tax Reduction (Must be printed and signed by the customer)
- Discretionary Housing Payment form
- Discretionary Housing Payment form - Moving costs
- Earnings certificate
- ECTR1 - Application for Council Tax Reduction only for use when specifically advised by a Council Officer
- Evidence Submission form
- Extra room allowance for a disabled person
- First night form
- Hostel resident claim form (For hostel providers only)
- Housing Benefit or Council Tax Reduction
- Nil income statement form
- Overlap form - benefit on two homes
- Persons from Abroad form
- Rent proof form (To be printed and completed by the Landlord, ONLY where no formal written agreement exists)
- Review form
- Second property form (LA1)
- Self-employed earnings form
- Age 18 proforma
Building Control & Street Naming and Numbering
- Building regulation application
- Building regulation fee quotation
- Change to or Additional Sign application
- Property Name Change Application (SNN)
- New Development Application (SNN)
Business
- Animal boarding establishments
- Approved food business
- Application for a premises licence
- Apply for license to drive a hackney carriage
- Application Form for Gaming Machine Permit
- Cooling Towers
- Charitable House to House Collections
- Charitable Street Collections
- Dangerous Wild Animals
- Dog Breeding Establishments
- Food premises registration
- Food Business FHRS Re-score request
- Licensing large scale temporary events
- Massage and special treatment therapist registration
- Pet Shops
- Riding Schools
- Safer Food Better Business Packs
- Small society lotteries
- Temporary Event Notice
- Tattoo, piercing and electrolysis licence
- Zoos
- Business grants and loans
Communities
- Blue Badge scheme
- Nomination for listing as an Asset of Community Value
- Community grants and funding
Council tax
- Application for exemption/discounts
- Care Review (providing or receiving)
- Change of address form - Babergh
- Change of address form - Mid Suffolk
- Child Benefit & Further Education Review
- End your single occupier discount - Babergh
- End your single occupier discount - Mid Suffolk
- Evidence submission form
- No ones Sole or Main Residence Review (furnished)
- Resident in Prison Review
- Severely Mentally Impaired Review
- Single occupier discount form - Babergh
- Single occupier discount form - Mid Suffolk
- Single Person Discount Review - Babergh
- Single Person Discount Review - Mid Suffolk
- Student Review
Cost of living support
- Apply for Local welfare assistance (Suffolk County Council)
- Household Support Fund
- Free School meals (through Suffolk County Council)
- Healthy start vouchers (If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.)
- List of foodbanks and pop up shops
- Support with energy, fuel and utilities
Environment
Elections
Housing
- Apply for a garage
- Apply for alterations
- Assign your tenancy
- Household Support Fund
- Joint Tenancy
- Mutual exchange
- Permission to keep a pet
- Permission to keep a vehicle, trailer, boat or caravan
- Permission to take in a lodger
- Permission to run a business from home
- Registering for Gateway to Homechoice (housing register)
- Right to Buy
- Terminate your tenancy
- Tenant engagement roles
- Housing loans, grants and assistance
Planning
- Change Listed Building colour
- Designate a neighbourhood area
- Householder planning application
- Listed building planning application
- Local land charges search
- Planning application search, track and comment
- New pre application enquiry