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- Find groups organisations and service to support you
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Online self service is often the fastest and easiest way to access the council.
The list below is in alphabetical order of our services. To get the right support for you, find the service you need in the list and use the forms and contact information provided.
Use the links below to make payments, report issues, make applications and find information about our services.
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Adult Social Care
Report
- Report a concern about an adult
- Report concerns about radicalisation
- Raise concerns about someone in a position of trust
Further information
Contact Adult Social Care
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday: 8.30am to 5pm
Friday: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Phone: 0161 217 6029
Benefits, support and advice
Apply
- Apply for support in a crisis
- Apply for a Discretionary Payment
- Apply for a school uniform grant
- Apply for Council Tax support
- Apply for free school meals
- Apply for Housing Benefit
- Apply for second adult rebate
Enquire
Pay
Tell us
Request
- Request a home visit
- Request an appointment for specialist debt advice
- Request an appointment for specialist help with benefit appeals
Report
Further information
- Benefit forms webpage
- Benefits, support and advice webpages
- Benefits calculator on GOV.UK
- Cost of living
Contact us about benefits
To speak to us about Housing Benefit you can:
Email: benefits@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6015
Bins and recycling
Buy
Find
Request
- Request an additional black bin
- Request a replacement bin
- Request an additional recycling bin
- Request an assisted bin collection
You can use the form below to request an assisted bin collection for a client if you are from Age UK Stockport or Disability Stockport. - Request an assisted bin collection for a client
Report
Further information
- Bins and recycling webpages
- Bulky items and waste webpage
- What you can put in your bins webpage
- Recycle for Greater Manchester website
- Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
Contact us about bins and recycling
This line covers services such as waste/bin collection, fly tipping, street cleansing, street lighting, parks and greenspace, roads, flooding and parking. Most of these services can be accessed online or you can call us on 0161 217 6111.
Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
Apply
Book
Enquire
Find
Pay
Further information
- Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships webpages
- Nationality checking service
- Stockport events website
Contact the Register Office
Email: register.office@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6007
Business in Stockport
Appeal
Enquire
Pay
Tell us
Search
View
Further information
Children's services
Please see Stockport Family below.
Communities
Apply
Find
Further information
Council Tax
Apply
- Apply for a Council Tax reduction
- Apply for support in a crisis
- Apply for Council Tax support
- Apply for second adult rebate
Pay
- Pay your Council Tax by direct debit
- Pay your Council Tax online
- Pay your Council Tax through your bank. telephone, Post Office or PayPoint outlet
Tell us
Appeal
Enquire
Request
View
Further information
Contact us about Council Tax
Email: council.tax@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6014
Crime prevention and safety
Report
Further information
Contact our crime prevention and safety team
Email: environmental.health@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 474 4181
Elections
Apply
Tell us
- Tell us about a change to your name on the electoral register
- Tell us about a misspelling on the electoral register
- Tell us that a person who no longer lives at the address
Register
Find
Pay
Further information
Contact the Elections Office
Email: elections.office@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6026
Environment
Report
- Report a dog fouling problem
- Report a fly posting issue
- Report a fly tipping issue
- Report a street cleansing issue
- Report a problem with trees or vegetation
- Report a damaged grass verge
- Report a problem with invasive non-native weeds
- Report an alleged dog attack
- Report bonfire nuisance
- Report graffiti
- Report waste spillage
- Report noise nuisance
Request
Pay
Further information
Contact us about:
Pest control
Email: environmental.health@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6017
Street cleansing
This line covers services such as waste/bin collection, fly tipping, street cleansing, street lighting, parks and greenspace, highways, flooding and parking.
Phone: 0161 217 6111
Environmental Health and Dog Warden
This line covers services such as taxi licensing, noise complaints, Environmental Health and the dog warden service.
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9am to 5pm
Friday: 9am to 4:30pm
Email: environmental.health@stockport.gov.uk
Email: dog.warden@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 474 4181
Housing
Apply
Pay
- Pay an immigration inspection fee
- Pay your garage rent
- Pay for a house in multiple occupation (HMO) service
- Pay your Housing Benefits overpayments
Report
Request
Further information
Contact us about housing benefit
To speak to us about housing benefit you can:
Email: benefits@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6015
Leisure, parks and attractions
Apply
- Apply for a stage hypnotism licence
- Apply to hold a street party
- Apply to hold a task day in a park
- Apply to hold an event in a park
- Apply to hold an event on the public highway
Pay
- Pay your bowls bill
- Pay for an individual allotment plot
- Pay to be a stallholder at Stockport Town Hall gift and craft fair
Book
Enquire
Libraries
Book
Find
Join
Pay
Reserve or renew
Further information
Licensing
Apply
- Apply for a house to house collection licence
- Apply for a new hackney carriage drivers licence
- Apply for a new hackney carriage vehicle licence
- Apply for a new private hire drivers licence
- Apply for a new private hire vehicle licence
- Apply for a stage hypnotism licence
- Apply for a street collection permit
- Apply for an advertising board permit
- Apply for approval of a food business establishment
- Apply for registration as a dealer in second hand goods
- Apply for registration of a food business establishment
- Apply to hold a street party
- Apply to hold an event on the public highway
Register
Request
- Request a replacement taxi badge
- Request a replacement Stockport Council vehicle licence plate
- Request a replacement taxi paper licence
Change
Book
- Book a taxi vehicle test
- Book an executive hire driver knowledge test
- Book a Hackney carriage driver knowledge test
- Book a private hire driver knowledge test
Tell us
Renew
Other taxi licensing forms
- Report a road traffic collision
- Return your Stockport Council vehicle licence plates
- Transfer your taxi or private hire vehicle licence
Further information
Parking, roads and travel
Appeal
Apply
- Apply for an advisory disabled parking bay
- Apply to hold an event on the public highway
- Apply for a blue badge
- Apply to hold a street party
- Apply to hold an event on the public highway
Report
- Report a blocked drain
- Report a fault with a lit sign or lit bollard
- Report a fault with a traffic light
- Report a flood
- Report a pothole, damaged road or pavement
- Report a street cleansing issue
- Report a fault with a street light
- Report a problem with trees or vegetation
- Report a damaged grass verge
- Report a problem with invasive non-native weeds
- Report an abandoned vehicle
- Report a fault with an unlit road sign or street name plate
- Report damage to a bridge or structure
- Report missing or faded road markings
- Report misuse of a Blue Badge
Request
- Request a copy of an existing tree preservation order
- Request a dropped kerb or vehicle crossing
- Request a grit bin refill or the gritting of an area
- Request a parking dispensation
- Request a parking enforcement
- Request a tree preservation order
- Request access protection markings
Pay
Further information
Contact us about roads and parking
This line covers services such as waste/bin collection, fly tipping, street cleansing, street lighting, parks and greenspace, roads, flooding and parking.
Email: Parking only parking@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6111
Planning and building regulations
Apply
Book
Enquire
Find
Tell us
Further information
Public Health START
This information is available on our Healthy Stockport website.
Find
Access alcohol and drug support and treatment services
If you're aged 26 and over, complete the website contact form to arrange an appointment to discuss your needs.
If you're aged 25 and under, complete the Mosaic referral form. Mosaic is a linked council service
Schools and education
Apply
- Apply for a free school travel pass
- Apply for a school place
- Apply for a school uniform award
- Apply for a yellow school bus pass
- Apply for an in-year nursery transfer
- Apply for an in-year primary school transfer
- Apply for an in-year secondary school transfer
- Apply for free school meals
- Apply for the Ethnic Diversity Service training
- Apply to be a school governor
Appeal
Find
Pay
Request
Further information
Contact school admissions
To contact us about school admissions you can:
Email: admissions.support@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 217 6022
Stockport Family
Apply
Report
- Report a child missing from care
- Report a child missing from school
- Report that a looked after child has returned to care
Request
Further information
Contact children's services
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday: 8.30am to 5pm
Friday: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Phone: 0161 217 6028
Contact Family Hubs
Contact the fostering team
Stockport Homes
Pay
- Pay any other Stockport Homes invoice
- Pay court costs
- Pay for garage rent
- Pay your Carecall/Sheltered Scheme Manager Charges
- Pay your leasehold service charges or ground rent
- Pay your rechargeable repair charges
- Pay your Stockport Homes commercial rents
- Pay your Stockport Homes housing rent
- Pay your television licence fees
- Pay your tenants home contents insurance
Further information
Contact Stockport Homes
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm
Phone: 0161 217 6016
Taxi licensing
Apply
- Apply for a new Hackney carriage driver's licence
- Apply for a new Hackney carriage vehicle licence
- Apply for a new private hire driver's licence
- Apply for a new private hire vehicle licence
Book
- Book a taxi vehicle test
- Book an executive hire driver knowledge test
- Book a Hackney carriage driver knowledge test
- Book a private hire driver knowledge test
Change
Renew
Report
Return
Request
- Request a replacement taxi badge
- Request a replacement Stockport Council vehicle licence plate
- Request a replacement taxi paper licence
Transfer
Contact us about taxis
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 10am to 4pm
Email: taxiadmin@stockport.gov.uk
Phone: 0161 474 4181
Your council
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- Find a committee
- Find a council or committee meeting
- Find a decision taken by councillors
- Find current consultations
- Find Stockport Council data on data.gov
- Find your councillor
Invite
Comments and complaints
Further information
Other services
We deliver hundreds of services across the council. If you cannot find the number you're looking for, use the search on this website to find the service as most pages have contact details listed.
Alternatively, call our switchboard on 0161 474 4949:
Opening hours
- Monday to Thursday: 8.30am to 5pm
- Friday: 8:30am to 4:30pm
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