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• Bins and recycling

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      • Where to put your recycling

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      • What to put in your bin

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• Planning and building

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      • planning step by step

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    • High hedges

    • Find an arboricultural or tree expert

  • Landscape

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      • Special landscape areas

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  • Wildlife and biodiversity

    • Biodiversity and planning policy

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    • Ecological assessments

    • Great crested newt district licensing scheme

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  • Historic buildings and conservation areas

    • Listed buildings

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    • Retrofit and Energy Efficiency

      • Benefits of Traditional Buildings

      • Before you Start

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      • Quick Wins

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      • Retrofitting a Listed Building or a Building in a Conservation Area

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      • Mitigating Climate Change

  • Cotswold design guidance

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    • Design and access statement

    • Grants for environmental and heritage projects

    • Historic building features

  • Cotswold interactive maps

• Business and licensing

  • Business rates and rate relief

    • Paying your business rates

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    • Calculating your business rates

    • Rate relief

    • Unoccupied properties

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    • Business rate changes 2023

    • Holiday let changes 2023

    • Report a change in circumstances for businesses

  • Invest in the Cotswolds

  • Apply or renew business licences and permits

    • Licensing Public Register

    • Taxi and private hire licensing

      • Private hire operator licence

      • Taxi passengers

      • Thinking of becoming a Taxi Driver?

      • Book a taxi driver knowledge test

      • Step by step guide to applying for a Taxi Driver Licence (New applicant)

      • Driver licence

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    • Alcohol and entertainment

      • Premises licence

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      • Premises management

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      • Review of licences

    • Animal licences

      • Animal activity licence

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      • Dangerous wild animals

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    • Organising public events

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    • Pavement licence

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      • Starting a food business

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      • Cooling towers and evaporative condensers

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    • Rural England Prosperity Fund

    • Help for struggling businesses

    • Cotswold Homes and Interiors Festival

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• About the Council

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  • Having your say

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• Housing

  • Apply for housing

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  • Community led housing

  • Homelessness support and advice

  • Private housing

    • Fit to rent - tenants information

    • Houses in multiple occupation

    • Housing grants

    • Fit to rent - landlord information

    • Empty homes

    • Selling or renting your former council property

      • Former council properties for sale or rent

    • Self-build housing

    • Information for landlords and tenants

      • tenant and landlord advice

    • Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards

    • Warm and Well

  • Housing strategy and policy

• Environment

  • Report fly-tipping

  • Flooding

    • Blocked drains and sewers

    • Watercourses and ditches

    • Flood reports and reviews

    • What to do during a flood

    • Recovering after a flood

    • Report flooding

    • How to prepare for flooding

    • Cotswolds flood wardens scheme

  • Noise, pests, pollution and air quality

    • Air quality

    • Noise and other nuisances

    • Environmental permits

    • Contaminated land

    • Pest control

    • Invasive and non-native weeds

    • Asbestos risk after a fire

  • Litter, street cleaning and dog fouling

    • Abandoned shopping trolleys

    • Report graffiti or fly-posting

  • Climate action

    • Home energy conservation strategy

    • Cotswold climate and ecological emergencies

    • Achieving net zero carbon homes

    • Cotswold Home Solar

    • Climate Initiatives & Future Plans FAQs

    • Drive & Thrive Event

    • Furbnow Partnership

    • Retrofit Engagement Scheme

      • What is Retrofit?

      • Home Energy Efficiency Talks for Local Groups

      • Online Masterclasses

      • Retrofit Champions Training

      • Home Visits

    • Making your home more energy efficient

    • Energy efficiency and affordable warmth

  • Animals and wildlife

    • Dogs lost and found

    • Report a dead animal

  • Food hygiene complaints

  • Grass verges and cutting

  • Cemeteries and estates

    • Public health funerals

  • Private water supplies

  • Abandoned vehicles

  • Sewage Summit

• Communities and leisure

  • Support for communities

    • Community rights

    • Emergency planning

    • Community Right to Bid

    • Support for refugees

    • Supporting older people

    • Supporting children and families

      • Protecting children and vulnerable adults

    • Cotswold Careline

    • Ukraine support

    • Community wellbeing

      • Food sustainability

  • Community safety

    • Domestic abuse

    • Hate crime

    • Antisocial behaviour

      • Solace

    • Community Safety Partnership

    • Safeguarding vulnerable people from extremism

  • Community grants and funding

    • Cotswold Connected Community and Food Programme

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  • The Unsung Heroes Awards

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