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Council tenants and leaseholders

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Housing policies and plans
  • Rent payments and arrears

    How to pay your rent, check your balance and what to do if you can't pay it.

  • Repairs and maintenance

    Report a council housing repair and find out what you're responsible for.

  • Tenancy fraud

    Bristol adopts a zero tolerance approach to tenancy fraud.

  • Home safety

    How to keep your council home safe. Includes gas, electric and fire safety.

  • Make changes to your tenancy

    How to buy your council home, pass it on to someone else or move into a different property.

  • Living in a flat

    Reporting a problem, our caretaking service and information for council leaseholders.

  • Your tenancy

    Information on your tenancy agreement.

  • Resident engagement: ways to get involved

    Have your say in the way we deliver the housing service.

  • Report an abandoned council house or flat

    Let us know if you think a council property has been abandoned or squatted.

  • Guide for new tenants

    What happens before and after you move into a council property.

  • Council garages and parking

    Find out how to rent a garage, and parking for some council tenants and leaseholders.

  • Housing officers for council tenants

    What a housing officer does, who your local housing officer is and how to contact them.

  • Home contents insurance

    Why you need home contents insurance and how to apply for it.

  • Home improvements

    Improvements to your council home, what to do if you’re having difficulties moving around your house and improving communal areas

  • Barton House

    Information for residents about the Barton House evacuation.

  • St Jude’s council housing refurbishment

    Information for residents about the refurbishment of the council housing blocks in the St Jude’s area.

  • Housing Consumer Standards Programme

    Why we referred ourselves to the government's Regulator of Social Housing (RSH), what we're doing to improve and how to get in contact if you're a tenant.

  • Letting us into your council home

    Why we might need to come into your home, what happens if we can’t get in.

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