A to Z of council services

In our A to Z of services you will find each of the services that we provide, organised by the initial letter of an associated keyword or term.

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Barking dogs

• Animals - Dog Warden Service
• Pollution control - noise
• Pollution control - nuisances

Barnsley Chamber of Commerce

• Our partners

Barnsley Children and Young People's Trust

• Barnsley Children and Young People's Trust

Barnsley College

• Adult learning in Barnsley
• Our partners

Barnsley Connects

• Barnsley Connects Service Centres
• Disabled Go
• Paying for a service

Barnsley Development Agency

• Business Advice
• Community development - regeneration projects
• Land and property - improvement
• Land and property - reclamation - support and advice
• Local economy - development
• Local economy - reports and forecasts
• Our partners

Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust

• Our partners

Barnsley NHS

• Our partners

Barnsley Town Hall

• Events - What's On

Bathing water (quality and safety)

• Pollution control - water

Baths (swimming)

• Sports - information and booking

Bed bugs and mites

• Animals - pest control

Bees

• Animals - pest control

Behaviour support services

• Support for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties

Benefit fraud

• Benefit - fraud investigation

Benefits

• Benefit - hospitalisation
• Council tax - discount
• Council tax - exemptions
• Council tax benefit - appeals
• Council tax benefit - backdated claim
• Council tax benefit - change in circumstances
• Council tax benefit - new claim
• Council tax benefit - overpayments
• Council Tax Benefit - Renewal
• Discretionary Housing Payment
• Education grants - student awards
• Education loans - student loan
• Education maintenance allowance
• Free school meals
• Home to school travel support
• Housing benefit - appeals
• Housing benefit - backdated claim
• Housing benefit - change in circumstances
• Housing benefit - new claim
• Housing benefit - overpayments
• Housing Benefit - Renewals
• Local Housing Allowance
• School access funds
• Welfare rights - advice
• Welfare rights - benefits advice and assessment

Bereavement

• Advice and guidance on arranging a cremation
• Advice and guidance on costs of a funeral
• Barnsley Mortuary
• Buying a plot for a grave / funeral
• Death - funerals - civil
• Death - historical searches
• Death - registering
• Exhumation of a grave
• Headstone Safety in our cemeteries
• Information and advice on funerals and burials
• Information on conducting an independant funeral
• Museums and galleries - loans donations and bequests
• Public records of funerals (geneology and family history)
• Registration - copy certificates
• Repatriation with a deceased relative from abroad
• Repatriation with a deceased relative within England and Wales

Berneslai Homes

• Housing - council - improvement strategy
• Our partners

Best value

• Council - constitution
• Council - value for money

Betting, gaming and lotteries

• Gambling Act - licensing premises
• Licences - amusements with prizes
• Licences - lotteries
• Licences - track betting

Bins

• Household waste - assisted collection
• Animals - dog bins
• Household waste - domestic bin provision
• Household waste - garden waste
• Household waste - hazardous waste - disposal
• Household waste collection
• Household waste special collections for large items
• Litter - removal
• Recycling - general information
• Recycling - residential collections
• Refuse - commercial waste - clinical waste disposal
• Refuse - commercial waste - special trade collections
• Refuse - commercial waste - spillage
• Refuse - commercial waste - trade bins
• Refuse - litter bins

Birth

• Birth - certificates - corrections and re-registrations
• Birth - historical searches
• Birth - registering
• Birth - stillbirths - registering
• Registration - copy certificates

Blind or partially sighted people

• Libraries - special needs
• Sensory Disability Services

Blocked drains and sewers

• Drainage - help and advice
• Roads - flooding - drains and gullies

Blue badge scheme

• Disabled parking and Blue Badges

Blue bins

• Recycling - bags and containers
• Recycling - general information
• Recycling - residential collections

Bonfires

• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection

Book Start

• Children's Library Service

Books

• Libraries - fines, fees & charges
• Libraries - general information
• Libraries - loans and renewals
• Libraries - mobile library service
• Libraries - requests and reservations
• Libraries - sale of old books and publications

Books for sale

• Libraries - sale of old books and publications

Bottle banks

• Recycling - general information

Bowling green hire

• Sports - pitches and courts

Bridges

• Roads - bridge strengthening
• Roads - flooding - drains and gullies

Bridleways

• Licences - riding establishments
• Public Rights of Way - Enforcement
• Public Rights of Way - General information
• Public Rights of Way - Maintenance

Brown bins

• Recycling - bags and containers
• Recycling - general information
• Recycling - residential collections

Budget consultation

• Council - spending plans - consultation
• Council - value for money

Building Schools for the Future (BSF)

• Admissions - secondary school places
• Building Schools for the Future
• Extended schools
• Schools

Building control services

• Land and property - building control
• Land and property - dangerous structures - public safety
• Land and property - demolitions - control and advice
• Planning - building and landscape design services
• Planning - building control - enforcement
• Planning - consultation
• Planning - Development Management
• Planning - listed buildings - statutory register
• Planning applications - business property
• Planning applications - residential

Building demolitions

• Land and property - demolitions - control and advice
• Land and property - demolitions - enforcement

Building inspection

• Land and property - building control
• Land and property - demolitions - control and advice
• Land and property - demolitions - enforcement
• Planning applications - business property
• Planning applications - residential

Building materials licences

• Licences - obstructions - building materials

Building regulations

• Land and property - building control
• Land and property - dangerous structures - public safety
• Licences - obstructions - building materials
• Planning - consultation
• Planning applications - business property
• Planning applications - residential
• Pollution control - construction

Buildings

• Planning applications - business property
• Planning applications - residential

Bullying at school

• Bullying

Burial register search

• Archives - donations and useful links

Burials

• Buying a plot for a grave / funeral
• Exhumation of a grave
• Headstone Safety in our cemeteries
• Information and advice on funerals and burials

Bus passes

• Disabled person's bus pass
• Home to school travel support
• Mi card
• Older person's bus pass

Bus stops and shelters

• Transport - bus stops and shelters - positioning

Business Link

• Our partners

Business opportunities

• Council - procurement - contracts lists
• Land and property - property enquiries
• Sponsors - sponsorship opportunities

Business premises

• Business - food retailing - information and advice
• Markets - stall rental

Business rates (NNDR, NDR)

• Business rates - account enquiries
• Business rates - annual notification
• Business rates - reductions

Business support and advice

• Business - directories
• Business - food safety - regulations
• Business - notification to council - employees
• Business - registering premises
• Business Advice
• Business continuity planning in Barnsley
• Community development-resource procurement-euro funding
• Council - commercial activities - MOT testing
• Licences - premises licence
• Local economy - development
• Local economy - reports and forecasts
• Planning applications - business property
• Registration - motor salvage operator
• Safety - health and safety - regulation and inspection
• Safety - health and safety at work - advice and training
• Safety - health and safety at work - investigation
• Statistics - economic information and analysis

Business waste

• Refuse - commercial waste - clinical waste disposal
• Refuse - commercial waste - collection
• Refuse - commercial waste - disposal
• Refuse - commercial waste - special trade collections
• Refuse - commercial waste - spillage
• Refuse - commercial waste - trade bins

By-laws

• Archives - Friends of Barnsley Archives