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# Central Bedfordshire Council

## Get information and advice on help with the cost of living

Cost of living

## How can we help you today?

- ### Waste and recycling
- Book to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Bins and waste collections
- Order bins and sacks
- Garden waste subscription service
- Report a missed bin collection
- Clinical waste
- Bulky waste collections
- Recycling different types of waste
- Report fly-tipping
- Pest control
- Bottle and textile banks
- ### Housing
- Apply to join the Housing Register
- Property adverts and how to bid for housing
- Housing benefit
- Paying your rent
- Council housing repairs
- Homelessness
- Public health funerals
- Mutual exchange and rightsizing
- Apply to rent a council garage
- Local land charges
- ### Council Tax
- How much Council Tax will I pay?
- My Account - manage Council Tax online
- Pay Council Tax by Direct Debit
- Pay Council Tax online
- Pay Council Tax by telephone
- Find your Council Tax band
- Council Tax discounts and exemptions
- Moving home - changes to Council Tax
- Council Tax band changes
- Completion Notices and Council Tax on new properties
- ### Planning
- Do I need planning permission?
- Planning advice
- Make a planning application
- What you need for a planning application - advice for a homeowner
- What you need for a planning application - advice for a non-homeowner
- View planning applications
- I want to comment on a planning application
- Contact the planning delivery service
- Local Plan
- New Local Plan
- Building control
- Minerals and waste
- ### Jobs, skills and adult learning
- Working here
- Job application process
- Jobs in schools
- Careers in Children's Early Intervention and Social Work
- Apprenticeships
- How to get a career in adult social care
- Work experience
- Adult Learning
- Equal opportunities
- ### Transport, roads and parking
- Roadworks
- Report and track roads and highways problems
- Potholes - make a report and see how many we are fixing
- Public transport
- Parking fines
- Blue Badge and disabled parking bays
- Salting and gritting
- Bus pass
- Parking permits
- Report abandoned vehicles
- Car parks
- ### Schools and education
- School term dates
- School transport
- School admissions
- Directory of schools
- School closures - emergencies / bad weather
- School attendance
- Virtual school
- School changes – three-tier to two-tier
- Schools performance
- School governors
- ### Registration and Coroner
- Coroner Service (including inquests)
- Marriages, civil partnerships and celebratory services
- Registrar offices - addresses and opening hours
- Register a birth
- Register a death
- Copy certificates
- Oakfield Gardens Crematorium (external website)
- Licensed premises
- Treasure inquests
- ### Environmental services
- Flooding advice
- Pest control
- Fly-tipping
- Sustainability
- Street cleaning
- Water quality
- Commercial pollution
- Domestic pollution
- Climate change
- Archaeology, Heritage & Conservation
- Air quality
- Abandoned vehicles
- ### Health and social care
- Adults and older people
- Adults with a disability
- Paying for care
- Help an elderly relative stay in their own home
- Support for care providers
- Protecting vulnerable adults
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Carers
- Health advice
- Mental health
- Disabled Facilities Grant
- ### Leisure, libraries and countryside
- Countryside
- Leisure centres
- Active lifestyles
- Libraries
- Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre - events
- The Grove Theatre
- Public rights of way
- Cycling in the countryside
- Walking in the countryside
- Definitive map
- ### About your council
- Electoral Registration and Elections
- Councillors
- Consultations and Engagement - Your Voice Matters
- Customer feedback
- Public and statutory notices
- Committees, meetings and agendas
- Webcasting
- Statistics and census information
- Central Bedfordshire 2050 - a great place to live and work
- HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
- ### Children and young people
- Child protection
- Adoption
- Fostering
- Help with childcare costs
- Childcare and Early years
- SEN and disability
- Children with disabilities
- Youth Support Service
- ### Business
- Business rates
- My Account - manage business rates online
- Procurement and tenders
- Food hygiene training
- Licensing
- Superfast broadband
- Trading Standards
- Business advice
- Major developments
- Scams: How to spot and stop them
- Local economic information and policy
- ### Support with the cost of living
- Council Tax Support
- Universal Credit and getting help with childcare costs
- Difficulty paying Council Tax
- Debt advice for council tenants
- Risk of becoming homeless
- Benefits and financial support for carers
- Housing Benefit and Universal Credit
- Free school meals
- ### Benefits
- My Account - manage benefits online
- Housing benefit
- Free school meals
- Council Tax support
- Report a chance of circumstances
- Extra help and appeals
- Council Tax support
- Change of circumstances
- Under-occupation
- Information for landlords
- ### Pay online - pay a bill
- Pay housing rent
- Pay Council Tax
- Pay sundry invoices
- Pay back an overpayment
- ### Self-service: Log in and log out of your account
- Book to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Order bins and sacks
- Report a missed bin collection
- Request sharps / clinical collections
- Apply for school transport
- ### Community safety
- Report anti-social behaviour
- Stray dogs
- Dog warden service
- Report and track roads and highways problems
- Report abandoned vehicles
- Dog control orders
- CCTV
- Domestic abuse
- ### Ukraine - sponsors and Ukrainian guests
- Initial checks on sponsor's accommodation
- Payments for guests and sponsors
- Sponsors and guests advice on accommodation
- Setting up a bank account
- Financial support
- Education and training
- Health advice
- Mental health support
- Government guides
- ### Translate this website
- Translate this website into different languages
- Przetłumacz tę stronę na język polski
- اس ویب سائٹ کا اردو میں ترجمہ کریں
- Traduceți acest site în limba română
- Перекладіть цей вебсайт українською мовою

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## Featured information

- ### Garden waste collections
#### We will temporarily pause garden waste collections for 12 weeks this winter, from Monday, 1 December 2025 to Friday, 20 February 2026.
- ### Defining the High Street Areas for High Street Rental Auctions (HSRAs)
#### We are seeking your views as part of the process to define the area where High Street Rental Auction (HSRA) powers may be applied.
- ### Christmas road closures
#### Find Christmas 2025 road closures and times for towns and villages across Central Bedfordshire.
- ### Have your say on the future of your local community
#### Tell us what you think of the draft recommendations on how your community is governed.
- ### “I can’t change the world, but I can change a child’s life.”
#### Your everyday is everything a foster child needs. Find out about fostering.

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## Latest news

- ### Garden waste collections to pause over winter in Central Bedfordshire

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

We will temporarily pause garden waste collections for 12 weeks this winter, from Monday, 1 December 2025 to Friday, 20 February 2026. Collections will resume on Monday, 23 February 2026.
- ### Leighton Buzzard woman convicted for Blue Badge misuse

Thursday, 13 November 2025

A Leighton Buzzard woman has been convicted at Luton Magistrates’ Court for misusing a Blue Badge belonging to her deceased relative.
- ### Joiner convicted after defrauding vulnerable residents across three counties

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

A former Central Bedfordshire tradesman has been convicted of multiple counts of fraud after deceiving elderly and vulnerable residents across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
- ### Find Christmas 2025 road closures and times for towns and villages across Central Bedfordshire

Monday, 10 November 2025

View details of planned road closures and closure times for Christmas celebrations across Central Bedfordshire in 2025, including town and village events.

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