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You can apply for services securely using our online forms online.

Popular services applied for using online forms

• Claim Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support
• See Council Tax discounts or exemptions
• Request a new bin or caddy
• Order a copy birth certificate
• Remove bulky household items
• Taxi and minicab licences

All services you can apply for using online forms

• Adoption
• Adult health and social care commissioning enquiries
• Allotments

• Benefits - apply for Housing Benefit and Local Council Tax Support
• Bins:
  • Assisted bin collection
  • Bin collection day calendar
  • Request a new bin or caddy
  • Request more compostable bags
• Birth certificate - copies
• Bulky household items - request collection or find alternative ways of disposing of unwanted items

• Children's Centres - information form
• Complaint, compliment or comment
• Complain about rented property
• Community Trigger - request an antisocial behaviour case review
• Council Tax:
  • Apply for a Council Tax discount or exemption
  • Sign-up for Council Tax e-Billing
  • Check your Council Tax account and balance
  • Report change of address for Council Tax
• Council Tax Support - apply for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support

• Death certificate - copies
• Design Awards - nominate the best in new development designs as part of the Rochdale Borough Design Awards
• Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) - apply for a payment

• Elections - opt in or opt out of the open register
• Empty properties - ask about bringing your empty property back into use
• Events:
  • Apply for permission to hold a public event
  • Register your interest in having an event at Rochdale Town Hall

• Fostering enquiries
• Free school meals

• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support
• Housing - help with improvements and repairs - apply for help if you own your own home

• Jobs
  • Register your interest in working for Rochdale Borough Council

• Land:
  • Enquire about council land - includes land, garage plots and garden plots
  • Apply to purchase, lease or rent council land, including grazing and stable land 
• Landlord Accreditation Scheme - join this free and voluntary scheme for landlords renting in the borough
• Landlord licence - includes Houses in Multiple Occupation
• Library Request and Collect service
• Licences - apply for registration of food business 

• Marriage certificates - copies
• Mayor's youth awards - make a nomination
• Mayor and Mayoress - request attendance 

• Parking permits - apply, renew, amend or report lost or stolen permit 
• Pedestrian crossing - request new crossing
• Planning permission
• Planning and building - pre-application advice
• Press office - contact the Media Office
• Properties that are empty - see Empty properties
• Property naming and numbering - see Street naming and numbering

• Rochdale Town Hall - see Register your interest in having an event at Rochdale Town Hall.

• Salt bins - request a salt bin for your road
• School places - apply for a primary or secondary school place
• Schools:
  • Appeal an in-year transfer decision
  • Appeal a primary school admission
  • Appeal a secondary school admission
  • Apply for early years education
  • Travel expenses - home-to-school transport application
• Street naming and numbering
• Street party - see Apply to hold a street party for the King's Coronation

• Taxi and minicab licences
• Temporary Exemption Notice for Houses in Multiple Occupation
• Town Hall events - see Register your interest in having an event at Rochdale Town Hall.
• Traffic Calming Scheme - request speed restriction measures
• Traffic Regulation Orders or temporary use of traffic management

• War memorial - request to add a name to a war memorial