Welcome to the West Devon Borough Council website.

This page provides a list of Chairmen/Mayors from 1973 to date

Policy on Risk Managment Including the Risk Assessments to Committee Reports

Home composting is an environmentally friendly way of reducing waste and producing your own free compost!

Fly posting is the illegal display of posters

West Devon Borough Council is responsible for clearing spillages on public highways

Asbestos advice for private homes and enforcement in some commercial premises

Accidents, Health & Safety, Health & Safety at Work Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences (RIDDOR)

Houses with structural or other defects.

An Environmental Health Officer is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to deal with genuine emergencies that occur out of office hours and need to be dealt with at that time

This service provides an inspection and enforcement service in relation to all aspect of Food Hygiene within the Borough, with the exception of Trading Standard issues, such as quality of food, food labelling and weights and measures

This service provides an inspection and enforcement service in relation to workplace occupational accidents and ill-health. Health & Safety enforcement is split between the Local Authority (LA) and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE are responsible for manufacturing, agriculture, construction, gas and oil, schools, and various other premises. The local Authority deals with the remainder, ie retail shops, wholesale shops, warehouses and fuel storage depots; offices; catering, restuarants and bars; hotels, camp sites and short stay accommodation; residential care homes; leisure adn cultural services; consumer services adn membership organisations; certain other premises such as car parks, vehicle hire, tool hire. These are allocated under the Health & Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998.

A house or flat occupied by more than one household.

Adaptions for Disabled Persons and Disablement Grants

West Devon Borough Council Housing Grants

A list of people who want affordable housing in West Devon

A service available to anyone who is homeless or threatened with homelessness

General advice and assistance to anyone with a housing query

This is a document which sets out our plans to improve housing services across West Devon

Licensing of Hackney Carriage or Private Hire drivers

Maintaining good standards of housing and improving poor housing conditions

Information about the ways in which you can submit a planning application

Information on the ways in which you can comment on planning applications that have been made.

Pollution is a major area of the Council's work. Please follow the links here to access the relevant areas for more detailed information

Funding for a wide range of projects that are of benefit for the local community. The grant will cover capital works to provide assistance to correct serious structural or other defects, adapt the building to accommodate less able users, modernise outdated facilities, help meet Health and Safety requirements, provide a new or replacement hall.

There are a number of ways to pay your Council Tax

Information about non-payment of Council Tax

Information about carrying out work to trees and hedges in the West Devon area.

West Devon Borough Council aims to provide affordable housing that local people can afford

Licensing of Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles

Assessment of what housing is needed in West Devon for the population to be appropriately housed

No collection for a charitable purpose can be made unless the requirements of the House to House Collections Act 1939 are satisfied.

Disposal of hazardous waste

Although the Council has no jurisdiction in this matter and will only act in an advisory manner, you are quite at liberty to incorporate a name into your current address, change the exisiting name of your property or give a name to your new house.

We deal with Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit for people living in West Devon

If you feel you might be eligible for Housing or Council Tax Benefit, you should apply straight away - if you delay you may lose benefit.

As soon as we have received your completed application, we will check your form and supporting evidence and write to you to let you know how much benefit you are entitled to

Your benefit entitlement is assessed based on the information which you will have given when you made the claim. If any of your circumstances change, this might change your benefit entitlement and you should notify us immediately

If you do not agree with your Council Tax banding then there are certain laid down grounds for appeal.

The following are agencies, both local and national, that may be able to provide you with advice or information

The Council is committed to the prevention and detection of fraud within the Housing and Council Tax benefit service

Subsidised home ownership for those who cannot afford to purchase a home on the open market

Information about non-payment of Business Rates

There are a number of ways to pay your Business Rates

Information on new Housing Benefit legislation that came into effect on 7th April 2008. This page provides information on Local Housing Allowance (LHA), and answers some frequently asked questions including:

Some changes to the rates liability for empty and partly occupied properties took effect from 1 April 2008. The Government has reformed empty property relief in order to provide a strong incentive to bring empty property back into use. This will help to increase the supply of premises to let, and so reduce business rates and improve the competitiveness of the UK, as well as bringing forward brownfield sites for re-development and so reduce the need for new development on environmentally valuable greenfield land. The reforms to empty property relief have consequential impacts for the rates liability of partly occupied properties that have been apportioned.

THE Government has been accused of 'carving up Devon for its own political gain' after it decided to let Exeter run all its own affairs as a stand-alone council like Plymouth.

In 2009 West Devon Borough Council, South Hams District Council and Torridge District Council undertook a project to look at how Information Communication Technologies (ICT) could be used to deliver public services in small villages across the three areas.

Want to tell us what you think? The Devon Housing Options Partnership is keen to hear what you think about the Housing Option Services provided by the local authorities in Devon.

A cash incentive payable to social housing tenants prepared to move to a smaller property, which helps make best use of the limited social housing stock in West Devon.