Your Local Council
Find the right council for your address
Enter your postcode to see which council runs services where you live, then go straight to that council's own pages. In some parts of England two councils share the work — a district council and a county council — and we show both.
The council details and service links come from GOV.UK's official list. We never guess a council web address. If GOV.UK doesn't list a page for a service, we say so and give you the council's main website instead.
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Use this if you don't have a postcode or the search doesn't work. Pick the council for your town or district — where a county council also covers your area, it is shown too.
What councils do — and which council does it
Search above to get links for your own area. Here is the range of everyday tasks the page covers:
Council Tax or rates
- Pay Council Tax
- Council Tax bills, bands and moving home
- Apply for a Council Tax Reduction
- Apply for a discount or exemption
- Business rates
Bins, rubbish and recycling
- Check your bin day
- Report a missed bin
- Order a new or replacement bin or recycling box
- Book a bulky item collection
- Garden waste collections
- Get rid of hazardous waste
Housing and homelessness
- Get help if you're homeless or at risk
- Apply for social housing
- Report a repair (council tenants)
- Sheltered and supported housing
Benefits and support
- Claim Housing Benefit
- Apply for free school meals
- School clothing grants
Schools and education
- Find primary school admissions
- Find secondary school admissions
- School transport
- Special educational needs assessment
- School term and holiday dates
Planning and building control
- View or comment on planning applications
- Building control
- Protected trees
Parking, roads and travel
- Report a pothole or road problem
- Report a street light fault
- Road gritting
- Pay or challenge a parking fine
- Apply for a parking permit
- Apply for a Blue Badge
Social care
- Ask for a care needs assessment (adults)
- Short breaks for disabled children
Environment and community safety
- Report fly-tipping
- Report noise
- Pest control
- Report dog fouling
- Report graffiti
- Community safety
- Parks and open spaces
- Report a trader to Trading Standards
Licences and permissions
- Premises and alcohol licences
- Hold a street party
Voting, registration and ceremonies
- Register to vote
- Register a birth
- Register a death
- Citizenship ceremonies
Libraries and leisure
- Libraries
Report a problem or make a complaint
- Make a complaint to the council
- Still unhappy? Go to the ombudsman
When two councils share the work
Most of the UK has one council for everything. In parts of England there are two:
- District, borough or city councils usually handle Council Tax, bin collections, housing and homelessness, Housing Benefit, planning, building control, licences, environmental health, voting and local parks and leisure.
- County councils usually handle adult and children's social care, schools and admissions, Blue Badges, libraries, roads and potholes, household recycling centres, births, deaths and ceremonies, and Trading Standards.
Arrangements vary, so the search results show which council GOV.UK lists for each task.
Some tasks are national rather than council-run — for example registering a birth or death in Scotland (National Records of Scotland), reporting a trader (Citizens Advice, Advice Direct Scotland or Consumerline in Northern Ireland) and taking an unresolved complaint to the ombudsman for your nation. Where that applies, the link says who runs it.
Northern Ireland: who does what
Northern Ireland's 11 councils run services such as bins, bulky waste, parks, planning, building control, licensing and registering births and deaths, but some services work differently:
- There is no Council Tax. Domestic rates are billed by Land and Property Services — nidirect: pay your rates online.
- Social housing and homelessness help come from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
- School admissions are run by the Education Authority, and libraries by Libraries NI.
- Social care is arranged by your local Health and Social Care Trust — nidirect: Health and Social Care Trusts.
About this page
Postcode searches use the official GOV.UK find your local council (opens in a new tab) service. Service links come from GOV.UK's published list of council service pages, downloaded on 13 November 2026, and cover the 382 councils GOV.UK lists across the UK. Links to each council's full A to Z of services were taken only from that council's own homepage and checked on the same day; where we couldn't find one, none is shown. We checked every link on the same day and left out pages that no longer exist; a few council websites block automatic checks, so those could not be confirmed. Councils change their websites, so if a link no longer works, use the council's main website or GOV.UK's finder.
Sixpence Support UK is independent and is not part of any council. We don't see or keep the postcode you type, beyond passing it to GOV.UK to find your council.