Class 2 – how we deliver our functions and services

Published: 3 March 2025

Council departments

Benefits
Business support and advice
Council Tax
Council Contracts and Tender Opportunities 
Council housing
Council Property for Sale or Let
Funding and grants
Elections and voting
Leisure facilities
Libraries
Schools
Jobs and training
Funerals, burials and cremations
Licences and permits and Permissions
Planning and building
Waste and recycling
Community safety
Care and support
Support for carers and young carers
Equipment and adaptions to help with daily living
Museums and galleries
Caravan and camping sites
Public transport
Transport and parking
Harbours

Strategies, policies and internal staff procedures for performing statutory functions

This information is available on request.

How to apply for a licence, warrant or grant where it is a function of the authority to approve

Licences and permits
Apply for a building warrant
School clothing grants
Disabled parking permits (Blue Badges)
Planning application forms and guidance
Housing Benefit
Funding and grants

How to report a concern to the authority

Report a pothole
Report street lighting faults and damage
Report dog fouling
Report a concern about a vulnerable adult
Report road and pavement faults
Antisocial behaviour
Abandoned vehicles
Discarded needles and syringes
Domestic noise nuisance
Empty homes
Fly tipping
Litter

Fees and charges for performance of the authority’s function, for example, a fee for making a planning application

Planning Application Forms and Guidance
Licences and permits
Registration of birth, marriage and death services

List of services, including statutory basis for them, where applicable

Council departments

Service fees and charges 

Bulky waste collection
Commercial waste collection
Leisure and Sport - list of prices
Family history and genealogy