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Abnormal loads - notification
Access bus
Adaptations to council properties
Adoption
Adult care services
Alcohol and entertainment license
Allotments
Application forms and validation checklists
Assisted waste collection
Baby sitting advice
Boatman's licence
Building control
Bus pass - disabled people
Bus pass - older people
Business rates - account enquiries
Calibration and testing
Change of tenancy
Civil parking enforcement - waivers
Commercial lettings
Commercial waste collection
Common land and village greens
Copies of birth, marriage and death certificates
Council tax - account enquiries
Council tax - benefit appeals
Council tax - change of circumstances
Council tax benefit - new claim
County of Durham Registration Service - Citizenship Ceremonies
Depositing building materials on the highway
Development control
Direct Payments
Disabled and older people's railcards
Disabled people's parking permits (Blue Badge)
Dropped kerbs
Durham road user charge zone (congestion charge)
Farming - feed hygiene registration
Food business registration
Fostering
Free swimming
Freedom of information
Garages - lettings
Grazing sites
Hackney carriage - taxi
Hackney carriage driver's licence
Health and safety - inspection of businesses
Health and safety at work - registration of businesses
Higher education - student finance
Home exchange
Home improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
Homelessness - advice and support
Household bulky waste collections
Housing - alterations by tenant
Housing benefit - appeals
Housing benefit - changes in circumstances
Housing benefit - new claim
Housing repairs - decoration and disturbance allowances
How do I join a library?
Industrial pollution control - inspection and regulation
Instrument Purchase Scheme (IPS)
Investing in children (IIC) - travel card
Jobs at the Council
Land and property - availability lists
Licence - boarding animals
Licence - car boot sales
Licence - caravan sites
Licence - dangerous animals
Licence - dog breeding
Licence - gaming machines
Licence - lottery
Licence - massage and special treatments
Licence - pet shop
Licence - pleasure boats
Licence - sex shops
Licence - street collections
Licence - weighbridge operator
Licence to sell poisons
Licence/registration to store explosives
Licences - performing animals
Licences - riding establishments
Licences - zoos
Licences for constructions over the highway
Listed buildings
Local land charges - carrying out a personal search
Meals to your home
Notification of cooling towers and evaporative condensers
Planning appeals
Planning public access
Postal vote
Primary School Meals
Primary school places
Private hire driver's licence
Private Hire Operator's licence
Private hire vehicles
Private water supplies
Protected Trees and Hedgerows
Proxy votes
Regeneration in towns and villages
Registering a birth
Registering a death
Registration - acupuncture
Registration - motor salvage operators
Registration - scrap metal site
Registration - tattooing, ear-piercing and electrolysis
Repairs to council property
Reserving library items
Residential care - adult
Residential services for children and young people
Right to buy
Scaffold and hoarding permits
School - clothing grants and vouchers
School Travel Strategy
Secondary school places
Skip permit
Social Care out-of-hours support
Swimming pools and multi-use games areas
Temporary event notices
Under 14 bus card
Vehicle access over kerbs
View your account online
Waste permit scheme
Youth Opportunities Fund (YOF) and the Youth Capital Fund (YCF)
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