Apply, report and pay

You can apply for services securely using our online forms.

Popular services applied for using online forms

• Claim Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support
• See Council Tax discounts or exemptions
• Free school meals
• 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

• Acupuncture, tattoo, piercing and electrolysis registration
• Adoption
• Adult health and social care commissioning - make an enquiry
• Allotments - make an application

• 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 certificates - order a copy
• Bulky waste collection - make a request

• Car boot sales licence - make an application
• Complaint, compliment or comment
• 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 certificates - order a copy
• Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) - make an application

• Electoral register - opt in or opt out
• Empty properties:
  • Apply for help bringing your empty properties back into use
  • Report an empty property
• Events - Apply for permission to hold a public event

• Food businesses:
  • Apply for food safety approval
  • Apply for registration
• Fostering - make an enquiry
• Free school meals - make an application

• Hairdressing licence - make an application
• Herbert Norcross scholarship fund - make an application 
• House-to-house collections licence - make an application
• 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
• Landlords:
  • Apply for an HMO licence
  • Join the Landlord Accreditation Scheme
• Libraries:
  • Apply to volunteer at a library
  • Library Request and Collect service
• Licences - view all licences and how to apply
• Litter picking - apply to borrow a volunteer litter picking kit

• Marriage and civil partnerships
  • Book a registrar for your ceremony
  • Ceremonies at approved venues
  • Ceremonies at Rochdale Register Office
  • Civil marriage approved venue licence
  • Give notice of marriage or civil partnership
  • Marriage certificates - order a copy
  • Renewal of vows ceremony
• Mayor's youth awards - make a nomination
• Mayor and Mayoress - request attendance

• Occupational therapy - make a referral

• Parking permits - apply, renew, amend or report lost or stolen permit
• Pedestrian crossing - request new crossing
• Planning and building:
  • Apply for planning permission
  • Request 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

Parking fines (Penalty Charge Notices) - make an appeal

• Rented property - make a complaint
• Rochdale Music Service:
  • Apply for membership
  • Apply for music lessons

• Salt bins - request a salt bin for your road
• Schools:
  • Appeal an in-year transfer decision
  • Appeal a primary school admission
  • Appeal a secondary school admission
  • Apply for a primary school place
  • Apply for a secondary school place
  • Apply for early years education
  • Apply for school travel expenses
• Sex shop licence - make an application
• Small society lotteries licence - make an application
• Stage hypnotism licence - make an application
• Street cafe licence - make an application
• Street collections licence - make an application
• Street naming and numbering - make a request
• Street trading consent - make an application

• Taxi and minicab licences:
  • Apply for your first licence
  • Apply for your vehicle licence
  • Change ownership of a licensed vehicle
  • Relinquish interest in a vehicle
  • Renew your driver's licence
  • Renew your vehicle licence
  • Transfer your vehicle licence
• Temporary Exemption Notice for Houses in Multiple Occupation
• 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