Telephone payments on Thursday 22 January
We will not be able to take payments over the telephone on Thursday 22 January 2026. This is due to essential system maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Apply online
This is the apply for it page where you can apply for most of our services.
Benefits
- Additional bedroom for overnight carer/s
- Age 18 proforma
- 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
Building Control & Street Naming and Numbering
- Building regulation application
- Building regulation fee quotation
- Change to or Additional Sign application
- New Development Application (SNN)
- Property Name Change Application (SNN)
Business
- Animal boarding establishments
- Application for a premises licence
- Application Form for Gaming Machine Permit
- Apply for license to drive a hackney carriage
- Approved food business
- Business grants and loans
- Business waste collection service
- 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
Communities
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)
- 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.)
- Household Support Fund
- List of foodbanks and pop up shops
- Support with energy, fuel and utilities
Environment
Elections
Housing
- Application for a Joint Tenancy
- Apply for permission to take in a lodger
- Application to assign your tenancy
- Application to keep an animal or pet in council accommodation
- Applying for permission to keep a vehicle or trailer or boat or caravan at your property
- Household Support Fund
- Housing loans, grants and assistance
- Mutual Exchange Application Form
- Permission to run a business from home
- Registering for Gateway to Homechoice (housing register)
- Rent a garage
- Right to Buy
- Tenant or owner occupier alterations
- Tenant engagement roles
- Terminate your tenancy
Planning
- Change Listed Building colour
- Designate a neighbourhood area
- Householder planning application
- Listed building planning application
- Local land charges search
- New pre application enquiry
- Planning application search, track and comment