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        • 2022-2027
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        • Licence - street cafe
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          • Applying for a Petroleum Licence
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      • Scrap Metal Licences
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          • Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013
          • Applying for a Scrap Metal Licence
        • Registration - motor salvage operator
      • Other Licences
        • Licence - Car Boot Sales
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          • Registering a Cooling Tower
        • Licence - Environmental Permit
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          • Applying for a House in Multiple Occupancy Licence
          • Converting a property to an HMO
          • Public Register of HMO Licences
        • Licence - markets
        • Licence - sex shops
        • Licence - sports grounds
          • Applying for a Licence - Sports Grounds
          • Applying for a Licence - Safety Certificates for Sports Stands
          • Legislation and Guidance on Sports Ground Safety
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        • Welfare Benefit Changes from 1 April 2011
    • Cost of Living Support
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      • Energy costs
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      • Nifty Thrifty Newsletter
      • Support payment for unpaid carers
      • Winter Fuel Payment Scheme
    • Council Tax
      • Council tax - general information
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    • Local Government Pension Scheme
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  • Crime & Emergencies
    • Crime Prevention
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      • Cold Calling Control Zones
      • Counter Terrorism
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    • Emergency Management
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        • Achieving Business Continuity
        • Business Continuity Guidance for Fuel Shortages
        • Business Continuity Management
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        • Role of Torfaen County Borough Council
      • Preparing for emergencies
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        • Gwent Local Resilience Forum Volunteers Group
      • Emergencies - severe weather warnings
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        • Your Home
        • What to do in an emergency
        • At work or travelling
        • Emergency Evacuation
        • Emergency Contacts
      • Legislation and regulations
        • Civil Contingencies Act 2004
        • Community Risk Register
    • Youth Offending
      • Anti Social Behaviour
      • Assessments made by the Youth Offending Team
      • Community Interventions of the Criminal Justice System
      • Detention and Training Order
      • Early Intervention of the Criminal Justice System
      • How to get involved with the Youth Offending Team
      • Objectives of the Youth Justice System
      • Restoration Responsibility and Reintegration
  • Education & Learning
    • 21st Century Learning
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    • Children and Young People
      • Play Service
        • Community Play Clubs
        • Dad and Me Forum
        • Family Play Sessions
        • Play Equipment and Resources
        • Play Sufficiency Assessment
        • Torfaen Play Service
        • Volunteering
      • Young people - information and advice
        • Five key pillars of youth work
        • Youth Service concerns and complaints
    • Parental Support
      • Childcare Offer for Wales
      • Childcare Sufficiency Assessment
      • Childminding information
      • Families First Torfaen
      • Family Information Service
      • Financial Help with Childcare Costs
      • Childcare - out of school hours
      • Day Nurseries
      • Parent & Toddler Groups
      • Playgroups
      • Parenting Programmes
    • Schools & Colleges
      • Attendance, behaviour and welfare
        • Bullying and harassment policy
        • Child Employment
          • Children in Employment
          • Children in Entertainment
          • Chaperone Licence
        • School - exclusion of pupils
        • Attendance at School
          • Striving Schools
        • Non Attendance Fixed Penalty Notices
        • Holidays During Term Time
        • School - home schooling
      • Duke of Edinburghs Award
      • Education through the Medium of Welsh
      • Financial Support
        • Free school meals
        • School - travel support
        • School - clothing grants and vouchers
        • Student awards
      • School Admissions
        • Parental Choice of School
        • School Admissions - Nursery
        • School Admissions - Primary
        • School Admissions - Secondary
        • School Admissions - Sixth Form
        • School Admissions - Voluntary Aided Schools
        • School Admissions - In Year Transfers
        • Appeals Procedure
        • Catchment Areas
      • School catering
        • Secondary School Catering
        • School Menus
        • Primary School Catering
        • Special Diets - Primary School
        • Special Diets - Secondary School
        • Menus
          • Menu - Week 1
          • Menu - Week 2
          • Menu - Week 3
          • Primary Menu Schedule
          • Spring-Summer
            • Beef burger in a bun with chips and baked beans
            • Cheese and tomato pizza, herby diced potatoes and baked beans
            • Chocolate banana cake with custard
            • Crispy battered fish served with chips and peas or mixed salad
            • Fruit jelly, shortbread biscuit and milk drink
            • Fruity flapjack and milk drink
            • Garlic and herb chicken, new potatoes, homemade coleslaw, veg or salad and crusty roll
            • Homemade fruit trifle
            • Hot dog with oven baked potato wedges and peas and sweetcorn
            • Ice cream roll with peaches
            • Jam and coconut sponge with custard
            • Homemade lasagne served with garlic bread, veg selection or salad
            • Lemon drizzle cake and cream with a glass of milk
            • Roast chicken with stuffing, roast and boiled potatoes, veg selection and gravy
            • Roast sausage served with yorkshire pudding, roast and boiled potatoes, veg selection, gravy
            • Salad Bar
            • Seaside-style salmon* with mashed potato and vegetables
            • Spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and side salad or veg selection
            • Sticky toffee pudding and cream
            • Vanilla ice cream served with fruit cocktail
            • Welsh cake and milk drink
            • Apple crumble cake and cream
            • Spicy pear cake & custard
            • Vanilla ice cream with pineapple slices
            • Chocolate orange whirl and mandarins
            • Arctic roll with fruit and milk drink
            • Roast turkey with stuffing, roast and boiled potatoes, veg selection and gravy
            • Salmon fish fingers served with mash and veg
            • Homemade chicken korma served with rice and veg
            • Beef meatballs with tomato pasta, garlic bread, veg selection or salad
            • Southern coated quorn burger in a bun served with chips, peas and sweetcorn or baked beans
      • School governors
      • School Inspections & Performance
        • School Inspections
        • School - assessment and performance
      • Term, holiday and other closure dates
      • For Teachers and Practitioners
        • Asbestos Management in Schools
        • SACRE
        • Schools Literacy & Resource Centre
    • Special Educational Needs
      • School Support
      • Person Centred Planning (PCP)
      • Additional Learning Needs Transformation
      • Exciting Changes
      • Inclusion Team Contacts
        • Aims of the Service
        • ASD Support
        • Children Looked After
        • Critical Incident Support
        • Education Psychology
        • Exclusions
        • Gwent Education Minority-Ethnic Service
        • Home Education
        • Parent Partnership Service
        • Pont Fach Assessment Centre
        • Sensory & Communication Support Service
        • SPLD
        • The ALN Team
        • Torfaen Autism Support Service
        • Torfaen Outreach Service
        • Traveller Education Service
      • The Individual Development Plan (IDP)
      • Statutory Assessment
      • Disagreements
      • Statements
      • Annual Reviews
      • Early Years
      • Additional Needs Panel
      • Disagreement Resolution
      • Health Care Plans
      • Pupil Voice
    • Training and Development
      • Choice at 16+
        • Why carry on?
        • Staying in School
        • Going to Coleg Gwent - Pontypool Campus
        • What do these letters mean?
        • Training & Learning Opportunities
  • Health & Social Care
    • Caring for Someone
      • What is a Carer?
      • Carers assessments
      • Carers Legislation
      • Carers' support service
      • Could you have a career in care?
      • Financial support for carers
      • When Caring Ends
      • Supporting young people leaving care
      • Young carers - support and advice
      • Gwent Carers Hub
      • Carers feedback
      • Adult placement schemes
      • Respite care
      • Carers Grants
    • Complaints and Compliments
      • Complaints - children's services
    • Fostering and Adoption
      • Adoption
      • Fostering
      • Fostering Opportunity - Torfaen's MyST project
      • Kinship Foster Care
      • Parent and Child Foster Placements
      • Private Fostering
      • Special Guardianship Orders
      • Supported Lodgings
    • Getting the help you need
      • Arranging care for yourself
      • Assessments - Adult Services
      • Children's Services Assessments
      • Dewis Cymru
      • Direct Payments
      • Family Support Centre
      • Having Your Say
      • Help to live at Home
        • AskSARA
        • Falls Service
        • Mobile meals - meals on wheels
        • Personal Care
      • Paying for Services
      • Residential and Nursing Care
        • How do I choose a residential or nursing home?
        • Nursing Homes
        • Paying for residential/resident nursing care
      • Services for disabled children and their families
      • Short breaks for disabled children
      • Advocacy
      • Transition into Adulthood
      • Death of a Service User
    • Health and Wellbeing
      • Ageing Well
        • Entertainment, Leisure, Getting Out
        • Finance, Support, Income, Benefits & Money
        • Get Involved / Volunteering Opportunities
        • Government, Local Government & Communities
        • Independent Living
        • Keeping Safe
        • Learning and Education Opportunities
        • Legal Matters and Capacity
        • Social Care Services
        • Staying Healthy
        • Third Sector Service Providers and Charitable Organisations
        • Utilities & Energy Efficiency
        • Wellbeing
      • Choose Well
      • Continuing NHS Healthcare
      • Health and Safety - Sunbeds
      • Health Services
      • Keeping Well this Winter
      • MEND
      • Mental Health
        • Community Mental Health
        • Mental Health Capacity Act
          • Liberty Protection Safeguards
        • Mental Health Services
      • Pharmacy First - Minor Ailments Scheme
    • Housing, Adaptations and Equipment
      • Home improvements - disability facility grant for a private property
      • Disabled people - home adaptations and aids
      • Community alarm services
        • Digital Skills Guides
      • Return of Equipment
    • Keeping Active and Getting Out
      • Torfaen Community Connectors
      • Day opportunities
    • Keeping Children and Adults Safe
      • Child Protection
        • South East Wales Safeguarding Children Board (SEWSC)
        • The Wales Safeguarding Procedures
      • Domestic Abuse
      • Safeguarding vulnerable adults
        • POVA Inspection
      • Looked after children
    • Strategies, Reports & Legislation
      • Learning Disability Strategy
      • Older Persons Statement of Intent
      • Social care services - public information
        • Adult Services
        • Children's Services
        • Out of Hours Emergencies
        • Paying for your services
      • Report of the Director of Social Services
      • Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
      • The Index (Register of Disabled Children)
    • Ty Glas y Dorlan
      • Overview
      • Types of rooms/tenancies available
    • Contacting Social Care
  • Housing
    • Change of Address Service
    • Improvements and Repairs
      • Housing - energy efficiency grant
        • Nest: making Wales cosy
      • Home Improvements - Loans
    • Help2Own
    • Homelessness - advice and support
    • Homeseeker
    • Supporting people
    • Private Housing
      • Private landlords
        • Rent Smart Wales - are you complying?
        • Drainage
        • Filthy & Verminous Premises
        • Harassment and Illegal Eviction
        • Housing Health & Safety Rating System
        • Immigration Visits
      • Empty Homes
        • Reporting an empty property
      • Private landlords - landlords forum
    • Torfaen Homes
  • Jobs & Careers
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        • Two Locks Community Hall
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        • St James (Lower Hall)
        • Three Penny Bit Community Centre
        • Trevethin and Penygarn Community Centre
        • Woodland Road Sports and Social Centre
    • Events
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      • Torfaen Safety Advisory Group
        • Event planning and counter terrorism considerations
        • Hiring a bouncy castle/inflatable
    • Green Infrastructure
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      • Junior Activities
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      • Leisure centres
        • Blaenavon Active Living Centre
      • Exercise referral scheme
      • Over 60s
      • Skiing
      • Swimming
    • Local History & Heritage
      • Heritage Strategy
      • Historic sites and monuments
      • Museums and Galleries
      • Pontypool Townscape Heritage Initiative
        • Townscape Heritage Initiative Grants
        • Townscape Heritage Initiative Projects
      • Records and Archives
        • Records and archives - enquiries
      • Heritage Volunteering
      • World War One
    • Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal in Torfaen
    • Nature and Conservation
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        • Invasive non-native species
        • Local Nature Partnership
        • Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC's)
      • Common Land
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      • Countryside volunteers
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        • Special Landscape Areas
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      • Local nature reserves
      • Meadowland and Wildflowers
      • Nature Networks
      • Public rights of way - general
        • Animals and Rights of Way
        • Information for Landowners
        • Planning and Rights of Way
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        • Signs and Notices
        • Vehicles in the countryside
        • Torfaen Rights of Way Improvement Plan
    • Parks and Open Spaces
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        • Pontypool Park History
        • Heritage Lottery Restoration
        • Afon Lwyd Weir
        • Italian Gardens
        • Nant-y-Gollen Ponds
        • Pontymoile Gates
        • Gorsedd Stone Circle
        • Ice Houses
        • Tramway Tunnel and Tram Road
      • Shell Grotto
    • Sports Development
      • Active Young People
        • Abersychan High School
        • Croesyceiliog Comprehensive
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        • St Albans RC High School
        • West Monmouth School
        • School Sport Timetable
      • Sports - clubs directory
        • Club Accreditation
        • School Club Links
      • Sports - coaching
      • Disability Sport
      • Dragon Sport
      • FAW Trust
      • For Dads, By Dads
      • #ifyougoIgo
      • Positive Futures
      • Sport and Challenging Activities
      • Sports - development
    • Sports Facility Leases and Licences
    • Sports Grants
      • Mic Morris Memorial Sporting Trust
    • Tourism & Travel
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      • Places to Stay
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      • Things to Do
      • Tourist information centres
      • Town twinning
  • Libraries
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      • Children & Young People
      • Homework Help Clubs
      • Summer Reading Challenge
    • Libraries - computers and internet facilities
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    • Health & Wellbeing
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      • Shared Reading Groups
  • Pests Pollution and Hygiene
    • Animals and Pests
      • Animal Welfare
      • Dead Animal Removal
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      • Animals - stray
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    • Environmental Health
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      • Food poisoning
        • People at risk
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        • Cryptosporidium
        • E Coli 0157
        • Norovirus
        • Listeria
        • Salmonella
      • Food Safety - Charity Events
      • Food safety - inspections
        • Food Service Plan
      • Health and safety - fireworks advice
      • Scores on the Doors
    • Pollution
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      • Pollution control - contaminated land
      • Pollution control - light pollution
      • Pollution control - idling vehicles
      • Pollution control - noise
        • The Law on Fireworks
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      • Smoking ban enforcement
      • Pollution control - water
    • Sustainability
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        • Domestic Energy
        • Water Conservation
      • Sustainable development - general
  • Planning and Development
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      • Building Regulations
        • Building Control - regulations
        • Building Control - Approval
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        • Building Control - Common Projects
        • Building Control - Advice and Guidance
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      • Demolitions - control and advice
      • Street naming and numbering register
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    • Conservation
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      • Listed buildings register
    • Planning Applications
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      • Planning advice and guidance
        • Planning News
      • Planning Forms
      • Planning - Objections
      • Planning applications - residential
      • Planning decision notices
      • Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
    • Planning policy
      • Community Infrastructure Levy
        • Stage 2: Publication/Consultation on Draft Charging Schedule
        • Stage 1: Publication/Consultation on Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule
      • Publications
      • Local Development Plan
        • Annual Monitoring Report
      • Local Development Plan Review
        • Publications List
        • Candidate Sites
      • Forward Planning Team
      • Supplementary planning guidance
    • Regeneration
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      • Cwmbran Regeneration
      • Pontypool Regeneration
        • Pontypool Regeneration Partnership
      • Regeneration Strategy
      • Pontypool Settlement Area
      • The British
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  • Roads Travel & Parking
    • Electric Vehicle Charge Points
    • MOT Station
    • Parking
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        • Misuse of the Blue Badge
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      • Car parks - council
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        • Car Parks in Cwmbran
        • Car Parks in Pontypool
          • Parking FAQs
      • Car parks - private
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        • Civil Parking Enforcement FAQs
    • Public Transport
      • Buses - information and advice
        • Bus times on your mobile phone
      • Orange Wallet Scheme
      • Concessionary Travel Pass
      • Disabled Persons Railcard
      • Transport - journey planning
      • mytravelpass
      • Trains - information and advice
    • Road Safety
      • Road Safety Strategy
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      • Road Safety Statistics
      • Road Safety Education, Training & Publicity
        • Advice for Parents
        • Advice for Children
        • Advice for Cyclists
        • Advice for Motorcyclists
        • Advice for Drivers
        • Young Drivers, Passengers & Pre-Drivers
          • Mega Drive
          • Pass Plus Cymru
        • Advice for Older Drivers
        • Advice for other road users
        • Safe Routes in Communities Initiative
        • Active Travel Routes & Schemes
        • School Travel Plans
      • Road Safety Engineering
      • Road Safety Enforcement
      • Road Safety - Safety Cameras
      • Road Safety - Coronavirus
        • Road Safety Resources - Year 6 Moving on to Secondary School
        • Road Safety Resources - Cycling
        • The Green Cross Code
    • Roads and Pavements
      • Dropped Kerb Vehicular Crossings
      • Flood Risk Management
        • Flood Risk Management Plan
        • Local Flood Risk Management Strategy
        • Strategic Environmental Assessment
        • Flood Investigation Report - Cwmbran
      • Highway Asset Management Plan
      • Off-road Biking
      • Public Path Orders
      • Roads and highways - roadworks
        • Roadworks Weekly List
      • Scaffolding and Hoarding Permits
      • Local Transport Plan
      • Roundabout Sponsorship
        • Current Roundabout Occupiers
      • Traffic Regulation Orders
      • Roads and highways - gritting
        • Winter Driving Tips
        • Winter Maintenance Resources
        • Winter Driving Checklist
    • Street Care and Cleaning
      • Abandoned shopping trolleys
      • Abandoned Vehicles
        • Untaxed Vehicles
      • Environmental Fixed Penalty Notices
      • Refuse - Fly Tipping
      • Flyposting - reporting and removal
      • Graffiti - reporting and removal
      • Grass cutting
      • Refuse - litter - enforcement
      • Litter and Fly-Tipping Strategy
      • Refuse - litter bins
      • Road safety - spillages
      • Public conveniences
    • Walking & Cycling
      • Active Travel Plan
        • Cwmbran Drive Active Travel Improvement Study
      • Community Links
      • Cycle lanes and routes
        • Afon Lwyd Trail
        • Cycling Code of Conduct
        • Other Cycle Routes
      • Health walks
      • Torfaen Walks
        • Blaenafon Walks Pack
        • Blaenavon Town Walk
        • Countryside Code
        • Cwm Ffrwd Circular Walk
        • Cwm Lasgarn Circular Walk
        • Cwm Lickey Circular Walk
        • Cwm Sychan Circular Walk
        • Cwmafon Heritage Trail
        • Henllys Circular Walk
        • In the Footsteps of Pilgrims
        • Pontypool Park Circular Walk
        • Southern Henllys Circular Walk
        • Torfaen Leisure Route
        • Torfaen Trail - Figure of 8 Walk
          • Blaenavon Community Wood to Whistle Road
          • Boating Lake to Griffithstown Railway Museum
          • Henllys to Llantarnam
          • Pentre Piod Road to Pontypool Park
          • Pontypool Park to Blaenavon
          • Pontypool to Upper Cwmbran
          • Upper Cwmbran to Henllys
          • Whistle Road to Pentre Piod
  • Rubbish and Recycling
    • Household waste - domestic bins
      • Black Bin
        • Missed Purple Lidded Bin Collections - Frequently Asked Questions
        • Purple Lidded Bins - Frequently Asked Questions
        • Replacement Purple Lidded Bins - Frequently Asked Questions
      • Black Box
      • Blue Bag
      • Brown Bin
        • Plastic Liners - Frequently Asked Questions
        • Brown Caddy - Frequently Asked Questions
      • Green Bin
      • Yellow Bag (Nappies)
    • Household waste - rubbish collections
    • Assisted refuse collection
    • Recycling A to Z Guide
    • Household waste - special collections for large items
    • Household waste - clinical waste
    • Composting
    • Household waste - disposal sites
      • Van Permit Scheme
    • Education
    • Re-Use Shop
    • Commercial waste - information and advice
    • Household Waste - Service Standards
    • Waste and Recycling Strategy
  • Service Directory

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