A to Z of council services
If you know the department you need use the online contact the council form to get in touch.
If you're not sure which service you need to contact, use this A to Z of council services, or please call our switchboard on 01273 290 000.
In this section you will find:
Investigation of abandoned vehicles.
Email: streetlighting@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 292 515 or 01273 292 516
Address: Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton, BN1 1JP
Disabled Access
Monday 9am to 5pm
Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday 9am to 1pm and Friday 9am to 4.30pm
Abnormal Loads
Roads and highways
Abnormal loads application form
Ensures all children of statutory school age in Brighton & Hove receive full time education and that schools comply with legal requirements around school attendance.
Disabled Access
Disabled Toilet
Bullying in schools information for parents and carers
Disabled Access
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
If you have a disability or illness and you have difficulty carrying out daily living activites we may be able to help.
Our occupational therapists, rehabilitation officers for visual impairment and support staff can assess you. We help adults and their carers to live safely and independently.
Disabled Access
Disabled Toilet
Adoption is a permanent, life-long commitment. It offers children who have not had the best start in life the opportunity to live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives with their new families. Adoption can be challenging but it can also be very rewarding. It gives you the chance to help a child whose life has been disrupted, and to watch them develop and benefit from the stability and security of a permanent family.
Like fostering, there is an application and approval process. The Brighton & Hove fostering team and the adoption team work closely together.
Adoption is a separate process from fostering. It is a process which transfers all legal responsibility for a child to their new parent(s).
For more information go to the Brighton & Hove Adoption website.
Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am to 4.30pm
To promote and widen participation of adult learning through providing bespoke provision for communities and families, supporting strategic co-ordination of learning provision with the community and voluntary sector, statutory and commercial, providers and funders.
Disabled Access
Disabled Toilet
Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
The control and licensing of objects on the public highway.
Email: street.licensing@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 292 071
Address: Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ
Disabled Access
Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
Highway licensing - shop displays, tables and chairs and advertising boards
Obstructions on public highways report form
Adult Social Care services' Specialist Team provides, or can enable you to access information, practical help, support or advice for people living with HIV and their carers. The service covers people who live in Brighton & Hove.
Phone: 01273 26 75 75
Address: Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS
Disabled Access
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am to 5pm and Wednesday 10am to 5pm
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
Adults can get advice and support about alcohol or drug misuse from The Brighton and Hove Recovery Service.
Brighton & Hove City Council can seek to gate areas of public highway as a response to criminal and/or anti-social behaviour.
Email: environmentimprovementteam@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 293 925
Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) and Gating Orders
Cityparks manage 37 allotment sites, which are rented by local residents and community groups for the cultivation of fruit, vegetables and flowers and for use as leisure gardens.
Disabled Access
Disabled Toilet
By appointment only
Collecting and returning lost and found dogs. Animal licensing, including pet shops, boarding, breeding and performing animals.
Disabled Access
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9am to 5pm, Wednesday 10am to 4pm
Report a lost dog
Report a found dog
Environmental Health enquiries and complaints
East Sussex County Archaeology Section work to protect, record and present the local archaeological heritage of East Sussex & Brighton & Hove. They provide advice on the management, preservation and understanding of archaeological remains, including advice on planning proposals where the development may impact on archaeological remains.
www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/archaeology
Brighton & Hove offers a wide range of cultural activities for all. Visit our arts & culture section for information on local art galleries, theatre, cinema and festivals. Our Events Diary offers a daily list of what's on in Brighton & Hove.
Disabled Access
Arts and culture
Museums and attractions
Brighton & Hove has a lively art scene with many galleries across the city.
Hove Museum & Art Gallery
Art galleries
Providing assistance to unaccompanied children and young people seeking asylum.
Phone: 01273 295 788
Address: Bartholomew Square, Brighton, BN1 1PF
Disabled Access
Monday to Friday, 9am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm
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Benefits office offering support on Housing Benefit, Universal Credit, and help with costs such as rent and Council tax.
Phone lines are open 9:30am to 1:30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, we are unable to provide a face-to-face service until further notice. Please use our online services to contact us instead.
Based at Woodvale Crematorium and provider of council cemeteries, Woodvale Crematorium and commemorative facilities for the bereaved. Please note that The City Mortuary and The Coroner have their own offices and enquiries for them should be made direct.
Woodvale Lodge Office: Monday to Friday 9am to 4.30pm, closed on bank holidays.
Brighton, Hove & Portslade cemeteries
Deaths, funerals and cemeteries
Memorials at Woodvale Crematorium
The Blue Badge and Concessionary Travel team issue Blue Badges to people who:
You can access online services here:
How to apply for or renew a Blue Badge
Where you can park using a Blue Badge
Report a lost or stolen Blue Badge
We take Blue Badge fraud seriously. If you suspect a badge is being misused, you can report it on our website.
If you have used our online services and can't find the answer you’re looking for, then you can send us an email at bluebadgeparking@brighton-hove.gov.uk or phone 01273 296 270.
We are running a voicemail telephone service. If you leave a message with your name, number, and query, we will call you back within two working days.
Our working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.
Our counter service remains closed.
Due to high levels of home working staff, you should apply online. Any applications sent by post may take longer to be processed. If you need to post documents to us these can be sent to:
Blue Badge and Concessionary Travel Team,
Hove Town Hall,
Norton Road,
Hove,
BN3 3BQ
Over half a million specimens, natural history literature and data extending back over three centuries.
Email: visitor.services@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 03000 290 900
Address: 194 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 5AA
Interactive displays and hands-on galleries. Regular programme of temporary exhibitions and activities for schools. Free admission. Gift shop. Baby changing facilities.
Booth Museum of Natural History
Cityparks division works to protect, maintain and enhance Brighton & Hove's rights of way.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am-5pm
According to events.
Box office: 0844 847 1515
Website: brightoncentre.co.uk
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery has been transformed by a £10 million redevelopment. Facilities include: the museum entrance in the Royal Pavilion gardens with a spacious foyer and shop; improved disabled access; new education facilities with an art room and a dedicated education pavilion.
Dynamic and innovative new galleries provide greatly improved access to the museum's nationally and locally important collections. There is a regular programme of temporary exhibitions and displays and enhanced education facilities. Gift shop. Balcony Café. Passenger lift. Baby changing facilities.
To ensure that all building work complies with building regulations and other allied legislation.
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm
Items placed on the Public Highway by shopkeepers and contractors are monitored by the Street Licensing Unit.
A licence is needed before you place building materials or plant on the public highway.
Materials/plant licence application
Bullying is behaviour by an individual or a group, usually repeated over time, that intentionally hurts another individual or group either physically or emotionally.
Schools are required by law to have steps in place to address bullying. These steps are usually outlined in the form of an anti-bullying policy.
Our web pages have information about where to go and who to contact for support.
Bullying in schools information for parents and carers
Help with bullying at school for children and young people
The Blue Badge & Concessionary Travel team provide the administration and provision of taxi vouchers and bus passes on age or disability grounds.
If you have any queries relating to Key Cards, bus fares and bus passes which aren’t issued on age or disability grounds, you will need to contact the bus company.
If you require a bus pass for school transport, you will need to contact the School Transport team. You can phone 01273 293 501, or send an email to HometoSchoolTransport@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
We offer a range of online services and information webpages that could be useful for you.
You can access online services here:
How to apply for an older person’s bus pass and FAQ
How to apply for a disabled person’s bus pass and FAQ
If you have used our online services and can't find the answer you’re looking for, then send an email to buspasses@brighton-hove.gov.uk or phone 01273 291 924.
We are running a voicemail telephone service. If you leave a message with your name, number, and query, we will call you back within two working days.
Our working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.
Our counter service remains closed.
Due to high levels of home working staff, you should apply online. Any applications sent by post may take longer to be processed. If you need to post documents to us these can be sent to:
Blue Badge and Concessionary Travel Team
Hove Town Hall
Norton Road
Hove
BN3 3BQ
Provision of passenger shelters at bus stops, and ensuring they are maintained under the council's contract with Clear Channel. The council is continually working to improve access at bus stops, to make it easy for everyone to use the buses - and passenger shelters while waiting for them.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Travel, transport and road safety
The Brighton & Hove Business Awards (BAHBAs) are open to small, medium and large companies who have the dedication for hard work and commitment which makes their companies a success.
The awards are designed to raise awareness, attract inward investment and to celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of our new and growing 21st century city.
The BAHBAs acknowledge and celebrate those companies, organisations and individuals who put Brighton & Hove on the UK business map!
Business rates (also known as national non-domestic rates) are a property tax payable in respect of most business and non-domestic premises.
We can accept cheques and payments by debit card and credit card, but we cannot accept cash payments at Brighton Customer Service Centre. Please refer to our web page on how to pay your business rates for more information.
Monday to Friday 8.45am to 4.30pm, Brighton Customer Service Centre
Business rates - moving out of the area
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The Council has a number of car parks in Brighton & Hove, including 4 multi storey car parks in Brighton.
We also have car parking spaces and garages for rent around the city. If you are interested in renting one of these on a long term basis check the renting car parks and garages pages.
An emergency alarm system that supports vulnerable people within their own homes.
Carelink plus alarm application form
A carer is someone who provides, or intends to provide, regular and substantial unpaid and informal care to an adult or child who needs support because of disability, illness or frailty due to their age.
Front Door for Families provides support, guidance and access to services for parents, carers, members of the public, young people and professionals. If you are a worried about a child's welfare please go to:
Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm, Friday closing at 4.30pm
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees
Brighton & Hove Children's Centres offer a number of services for families with children under five, these include:
To find out more about the centres, visit the Children's Centre page.
You can contact the Family Information Centre on the number below and Children's Centre Nurseries on the link below.
Phone: 01273 29 35 45
Conway Court and West Hove Children's Centres
Hollingdean Children's Centre, Hollingbury & Patcham CC and Preston Park CC
Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, City View and Fairlight Children's Centres
North Portslade Children's Centre and South Portslade Children's Centre
Roundabout Children's Centre and The Deans CC
The Family Information Service provides information about fun activities for children in the city.
Phone: 01273 29 35 45
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Information and advice for families
A scheme called homemove in Brighton & Hove - for letting council and housing association properties, allowing tenants and prospective tenants to bid for the available properties they are interested in.
Disabled Access
Becoming a British citizen is certainly a major event in someone's life.
Applications for citizenship are handled by the Home Office.
The final part of becoming a British citizen is a celebratory ceremony. At the ceremony new British citizens receive their certificate of naturalisation.
To book your citizenship ceremony please follow the link to the citizenship ceremony online booking form.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9.30am to 5pm and Wednesday 10am to 5pm
Visit the Home Office Ceremonies website.
This link will take you back to the Register Office home page.
Citizenship ceremony - booking your ceremony
We work to defend the coast from erosion and encroachment by the sea. We maintain and renew coast defences and we develop plans to ensure our coast is protected now and in the future.
Disabled Access
By appointment only
Brighton’s Museum and Library shops stock a huge range of goods that reflect the venues they are housed in.
The part of Brighton & Hove City Council's commercial property portfolio relating to the Brighton geographical area is managed by property consultants, Avison Young. Commercial properties in the former Hove area are managed by the in-house Estates team.
Phone: Brighton 01273 73 83 83 or Hove 01273 29 14 45
Address:
Avison Young, 44-46 Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1NH
Estates Management, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, BN3 3BQ
Disabled Access
Avison Young, Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm
Hove Town Hall by appointment only
Commercial property and farmland
We provide a pay per use service for businesses within the communal bin areas of the city using our commercial waste sacks.
Email: cityclean@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 29 29 29
If businesses do not use our collection service, they must make arrangements with a registered trade waste contractor.
Brighton & Hove City Council have no common lands. There is one village green at Rottingdean, this is maintained by our city parks department.
Email: cityparks@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 292 059
Please call 999 if there is an emergency.
The Community Safety Team works in partnership to improve community safety, reduce crime and disorder and to help people feel safer across the city. Find out more on the Safe in the City website.
Meetings by appointment
If you would like help or advice regarding anti-social behaviour that causes harassment, alarm or distress, and racist or religiously motivated incidents, please contact the Community Safety Team.
Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour
Community Trigger - ASB and Hate Incident case review
We support and link with the community and voluntary sector in the city.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Community support for your neighbourhood
Community rights under the Localism Act 2011
The Communities Equality & Third Sector Team
You can:
Kitchen and garden waste make up about 30% by weight of household rubbish and when in a landfill site cause the generation of landfill gas which contributes towards global warming and a toxic liquid called leachate. This waste can be composted, either by using a manufactured compost bin or one made by yourself.
You can compost fruit and vegetable scraps, tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells, cooked vegetables, grass cuttings, leaves, weeds, dead plant material, cardboard and kitchen paper (scrunched up).
Do not compost meat and fish remains, dog and cat droppings, dairy products, vacuum cleaner contents, timber, plastic, glass or metal, tough woody material, perennial weeds or diseased plants.
The Public Health Intelligence team carries out research to inform council policy and supports public consultations.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Consumer advice and information in Brighton & Hove is provided by Citizen’s Advice consumer service. The government-funded consumer advice service offers information and advice on problems with goods and services, including gas or electricity companies and mail services.
Phone: 08454 040 506
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
His Majesty's Coroner for Brighton & Hove is an independent judicial officer who follows laws that apply to coroners and inquests.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Most Inquests are held at the Coroner's Court which is adjacent to the Coroner's Office.
Coroner's Officers work under the direction of the Coroner and liaise with bereaved families, police, doctors and funeral directors. They are based at Brighton Police Station.
Address: Brighton Police Station, John Street, Brighton, BN2 2LA
Phone: 01273 40 40 56
Email: btn.coroners@sussex.pnn.police.uk
HM Coroner for Brighton & Hove
Deaths, funerals and cemeteries
Management of council housing in the city.
Email: housing.customerservices@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Our democratic services team works to ensure the smooth and efficient management of the decision-making processes of the council.
Email: democratic.services@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone:01273 291 066
Address: Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, Postcode, BN3 3BQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhdemoserv
Your councillors and local politicians
Committees, council meetings and decision making
Going to a full council or committee meeting
Setting up or signing petitions and presenting them to the council
How to get involved in council decisions - make your voice heard
Cityparks works to protect and enhance the countryside around our city, much of which is in the South Downs National Park.
We seek to promote a greater understanding and enjoyment of the countryside through guided walks and other events, trail guides, talks and on site information.
We work closely with local community groups, helping them manage green sites of particular importance to them. We provide advice and support from helping to write management plans to providing sustainable produced materials from our woodlands to implement them.
We are responsible for cutting all chalk grassland (downland) and try to ensure that it is being properly managed to preserve the many rare species that rely on itWe are also responsible for Countryside Rights of Way that is footpaths, bridleways and byways. In all of our work we seek to strike a balance between the needs of wildlife, archaeology and public enjoyment.
Conservation grazing with sheep and ponies
The aim of the Customer Feedback team is to deal with complaints from the public quickly, fairly and efficiently.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Feedback about council services
Customer service standards and customer charter.
Feedback about council services
The council is encouraging cycling by measures including cycle routes, cycle parking and cycle training.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
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We provide information on welfare rights for people on low incomes. We don't provide a personal debt advice service. We recommend National Debtline. You can also find local help on the Brighton & Hove advice partnership website
You can call us on Wednesdays 10am to 1pm, at other times you will need an appointment.
Services for disabled children and their families are part of the Integrated Child Development and Disability Service, based at the Seaside View Child Development Centre at Brighton General.
Services include:
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
Disabled drivers receive a number of parking concessions within the city, from free parking in some areas for Blue Badge holders, to disabled bays.
If you are a victim of domestic violence or abuse the Safe in the City website can give you details of agencies who can help and support you. Safe in the City also outlines strategic work in the city.
In an emergency please call the Police on 999.
Visit the Safe In The City website.
CityClean clear blocked road gullies, housing repairs will investigate drain problems for council tenants, Highways repair damaged road gullies or contact Southern Water for problems with drains.
Adults can get advice and support about alcohol or drug misuse from The Brighton and Hove Recovery Service.
Help with alcohol or drug misuse
Community Transport currently run a fleet of 16 wheel chair accessible minibuses that seat up to 16 people. These are available at cost price to any community group/club.
Email: easylink@bhct.co.uk
Phone: 01273 677 559
Address: Preston Barracks, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GL
We also provide EasyLink services for Brighton & Hove City Council. EasyLink services are aimed at people who can't access conventional public transport or who have mobility problems.
The Economic Development Team works with colleagues across the council and with organisations across the city to develop programmes and projects to benefit both local business and civic communities.
Our objectives are to:
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Supports schools in raising standards.
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Responsible for electric vehicle charging points in the city.
To report a problem with a charging point contact the Charging Point Operator Electric Blue by calling 0330 111 0078
Electric vehicles and charging
Responsible for organising elections for councillors and MPs in Brighton & Hove.
Frequently asked questions about voting and elections
The emergency out of hours service is available if social care services need to be contacted in an emergency situation outside of office hours.
For other emergencies please go to emergency contacts
For Social Care emergencies phone 01273 29 55 55.
Social Care Out of Hours Service
Emergency Planning and resilience team ensures the council is prepared to respond to major incidents in Brighton & Hove. We work with the emergency services and other agencies.
Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm
The council's out-of-hours emergency number is 01273 29 22 29
Emergency information, contacts and advice
Children who are still legally required to attend school need a licence for part time work. Special licences apply for children working in the entertainment industry. We offer training and licence chaperones who work as either volunteers or on a paid basis to support children working in the entertainment industry.
Term time only, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Disabled Access
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
To improve energy efficiency in private domestic properties across Brighton & Hove.
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm
Ensuring child employment and media performances are within legal requirements
No licences will be produced during school holidays.
Phone: 01273 293 480
Address: CIEE Officer, Access to Education, First Floor, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 4AH
Tuesday to Wednesday 8am to 4pm, Thursday 8am to 2pm, term time only.
Protecting and improving public health and the environment. Officers carry out various duties in the city including food hygiene, health and safety inspections, responding to complaints of noise nuisance, pollution control and licensing.
Disabled Access
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9am to 5pm, Wednesday 10am to 5pm
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
Our equalities team leads on and champions the work of the council in key improvement areas including the Equality Framework for Local Government and Equality Impact Assessments.
We work to build inclusive services across the council and support the city-wide Equality and Inclusion Partnership (EquIP).
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
About you - equalities monitoring
Our equality and inclusion policy statement and strategy
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Information and advice about childcare and services for families.
Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am to 4.30pm
Information and advice for families
Early education and childcare professionals
The Estates Team manages the council's agricultural land portfolio with support provided by our managing agents Smiths Gore.
The council removes fly-posting from street furniture like bins and benches, signs and council owned bus shelters. We also respond quickly to reported offensive and racist flyposting. However, we do not have the resources to remove fly-posting from privately owned property.
The Food Safety Team is responsible for ensuring that all food sold in Brighton & Hove is clean and safe for the consumer to eat. Any premises which stores, prepares, produces, cooks or sells food must comply with strict hygiene standards.
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
The Estates Team manages the areas of woodland contained within the agricultural portfolio with support provided by our managing agents Smiths Gore
Foster carers provide a safe, stable, nurturing home where a child or young person can live while their own family is unable to look after them.
The Brighton & Hove fostering and adoption teams work closely together. However, adoption is a separate process from fostering. It is a process which transfers all legal responsibility for a child to their new parent(s).
Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am to 4.30pm
Administers provision of free school meals for children whose families are claiming benefits.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Due to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Information Governance Team cannot receive phone calls or requests for information by post.
If you want to submit a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, please send an email to Freedomofinformation@brighton-hove.gov.uk. You can also use the online form to send a request for information.
We will aim to respond to your request for information within the relevant statutory timeframe. However due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, staff working on your request may become absent or deployed to other areas of work at short notice, so it may take longer to get back to you.
Find more information recently issued by the UK' s Information Commissioner's Office (the UK regulator).
We thank you for your patience and understanding at this time.
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Learn more about your rights at the office of the information commissioner website.
Freedom of Information disclosure log
Make a Freedom of Information request
All families need help from time to time. Front Door for Families provides information, advice and support for families, young people and professionals in Brighton & Hove.
Front Door for Families offers information and support on issues such as:
If you think a child or young person is in immediate danger please call 999.
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4.30pm
Family Information Service (FIS)
General housing covers a number of teams that support the housing needs of people around the city.
Contact pages for housing teams:
Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
We aim to remove offensive graffiti within 24 hours. All residents and businesses are encouraged to clean graffiti from their own property as soon as possible.
You can report offensive graffiti and graffiti on public land online.
Recycling, rubbish and street cleaning
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Key highway services during winter include gritting and salting in advance of ice or snow, snow ploughing, pavement sweeping and grit bins.
Grit bin - request a refill, move or repair
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Council buildings for conferences and events
Advice and support is available to those who feel that they are being harassed at home, in the workplace, in public or at school. Depending on the nature of the harassment and the age of the victim this may involve other authorities such as the police, legal services, education services, child protection agencies.
Racist and religiously motivated incidents
Bullying in schools information for parents and carers
Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour
Brighton & Hove residents can take small quantities of potentially hazardous household products produced by normal domestic activities to the Hove household waste recycling site. We do not provide a hazardous waste service for businesses.
Recycling, refuse and street cleaning report form
Environmental Health Officers give advice on a wide range of health and safety issues, both at work and in publicly accessible areas such as shops, hotels and catering and leisure facilities.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
The Health & Safety Team carries out a number of duties in a wide range of premises. The team enforces health and safety law and certain licensing legislation. Accidents at work are also investigated, but it is the function of the premises in question that dictates whether we or the Health and Safety Executive carry out enforcement duties. If in doubt, please contact us for advice.
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
Health walks are a great way to be more active, get out in the fresh air and make new friends. They are friendly, supportive and ideal for those who want to start exercising in a gentle and safe way, as well as those who want to walk regularly but don't have the time to attend longer walks.
Send an email to healthylifestyles@brighton-hove.gov.uk to join our mailing list and receive an email with the next Health walks programme.
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm
We provide specialist advice about works to listed buildings and other historic assets. We secure the repair and restoration of listed buildings at risk. We work on heritage policy for the city.
Listed buildings of Brighton & Hove
We maintain and repair parts of the public highway in the city such as kerbs, pavements, footways and carriageways and safety bollards.
If you want a dropped kerb, you need to apply for a licence. The highway basic maintenance team does not provide this service.
The highway basic maintenance team does not maintain or repair street lights, street signs or install new street furniture. Please see the links below to report any issues to the correct team.
Bridges and other highway structures
Roads, pavements and potholes - report damage
Grit bin - request a refill, move or repair
Road signs - report damaged or missing signs
Traffic calming - request a scheme
The highways obstruction team deal with anything that is blocking the path of public roads.
Companies or charities who wish to set up a stand/stall on the public highway need to obtain a highway licence.
The council has several sites across the city that can be reserved for promotions, these sites are managed in partnership with Brighton Economic Partnership
For further information please send an email to gavin.stewart@bhep.co.uk or go to www.brightonbusiness.co.uk.
Email: gavin.stewart@bhep.co.uk
Street trading options in Brighton & Hove
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
The acquisitions team leases properties from private landlords to help make up the shortfall of social housing stock within Brighton & Hove.
The team also runs a direct lets scheme which is a matching service for landlords.
We will respond to requests for information within 2 working days.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm - front office closes 4.30pm
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Wednesday, drop in service and phone lines closed until 1pm
Our Housing Options service works with customers to prevent homelessness, and where this is not possible look at alternative forms of accommodation.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Wednesdays, drop in service and phone lines open 1pm to 5pm
If you are experiencing a homeless emergency on a Wednesday and are without accommodation that night, please call back after 1pm or attend our drop-in service at the Customer Service Centre, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton between 1pm and 4.30pm.
Housing options - enquiry form
Hove Museum and Art Gallery is a centre of learning and enjoyment for people of all ages. The museum's permanent collections are displayed in the following galleries:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm
Sunday, 2pm to 5pm
Closed Monday including public holidays, Good Friday, 23 to 26 December, 31 December and 1 January.
There is a regular programme of temporary exhibitions and displays, free admission, gift shop, tearooms, passenger lift, baby changing facilities.
Monday to Friday, 10am to 4.30pm
To provide information and advice on International and European funding, EU legislation and policies.
By appointment only.
If English is not your first language, the council can provide interpreters at interviews or over the phone to help our customers. We can also provide translations of documents and publications on request.
We can provide signers, and documents in large type, Braille or on audio tape.If you need an interpreter or translation for any council service, please contact the service directly.
Phone: 01273 29 00 00
Translations and interpreting services
INTERREG Va France (Channel) England Programme
The recruitment team offers advice on the council's recruitment process.
If you have any questions about a specific job vacancy, please contact the recruiting manager in the service that you wish to work for..
Staff pay and conditions financial information
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The landscape character assessment involves systematic analysis, description and classification of the landscape. This helps develop appropriate recommendations for its future conservation and management
Specialist help is available from the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) to help adults with learning disabilities to live full and healthy lives.
The service supports people with a learning disability aged 18 years and older who live permanently in the city or are registered with a GP practice in the city.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
If you need to to contact social care services in an emergency and it is outside office hours or on bank holidays, phone 01273 295 555.
Useful information for people with a learning disability and their carers
Legal Services gives advice to officers, councillors and external clients on legal matters covering all types of council responsibilities.
Contract management of the leisure centres.
Contract office Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
For direct bookings and enquiries, please contact the leisure centres directly.
Leisure centres and sports facilities
Public library and information services.
Go to our library web pages for opening times and details for all libaries.
Log in to your library account
Forgot your library account PIN?
Follow link to library blog
Find, renew and reserve items from Brighton & Hove Libraries
The Licensing Team carries out a variety of licensing functions from acupuncture and public entertainment to street trading and mobile food vendors.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 4.30pm (phone line open until 5pm)
Information on Hackney Carriages and private hire taxis
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
High Season is from the end of May to the beginning of September, 10am to 6pm.
The Literacy Support Service (LLS) is a team of specialist literacy teachers who all hold specialist qualifications in working with pupils with SpLD/ dyslexia.
The role of the LSS is to support children with literacy difficulties in school. We are a bought in service which means schools choose to purchase the service.
Key activities are specialised assessment of pupils with SpLD, advice and training for school staff and parents, and specialist teaching of pupils with significant SpLD need.
Brighton & Hove Dyslexia Guidance
You will need to complete a Local Land Charge search if you are remortgaging or buying property or land.
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
Administers support for children with special and additional educational needs and disabilities.
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm
Friday, 9am to 4.30pm - please telephone first
Special educational needs and disabilities
Who can get free school transport
Special educational needs and disability support
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Street trading options in Brighton & Hove
Opening a food stall in a market
The licensing and monitoring of materials and plant placed on the Public Highway.
Phone: 01273 291 701
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
All Hippobags and other skip bags, building materials and plant placed on the public highway must be licensed. Any sand, soil gravel or other loose material has to be bagged or contained. Failing to do this can result in the responsible person being billed for any drains affected.
Skips, scaffolds, hoardings, materials and plant
Materials/plant licence application
The mayor's primary duty is to act as the Chair of Full Council meetings. This means ensuring that the proceedings are conducted properly and that all shades of opinion are given a hearing, as far as possible.
The Civic Office also supports Queen's representative for East Sussex, the Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Contact the mayor and invite them to your event
The Mayor's charities and events
The Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex
Contact details for the 10 MEPs representing the South East region.
Your Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
Your Member of Parliament (MP)
Mental health services for adults age 18 to 65 years old are provided by staff with specialist skills from both health (NHS) and social care.
The Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a partnership of the Children and Young People’s Trust and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It offers a range of mental health services for younger people.
Phone:
Fax: 01273 242 037
Address: East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove, Brighton, BN2 3EW
Community Mental Health Team: West Millview Hospital, Neville Avenue, Hove BN3 7HY Phone: 01273 696 011
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)
The Minerals Local Plan has been prepared jointly by East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council.
Email: local.plan@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 292 504
The Minerals Local Plan can be viewed online or downloaded by visiting the East Sussex County Council Minerals Local Plan webpage
Provides postmortem and storage facilities for deaths that are reported to the Coroner
Monday to Thursday, 7am to 3pm
Friday 7am to midday
The City Mortuary is located within the grounds of the Extra-Mural Cemetery on Lewes Road.
Historic properties and museums across Brighton & Hove open to the public and offering education programmes, temporary exhibitions and research facilities. Museums include collections of national importance.
If you would like to make a donation or bequest to one of the museums, details can be found on the museums website donations and bequests page.
Booth Museum of Natural History
Our vision is for all children and young people in the city, whatever their background, to be able to engage with, to enjoy and to be inspired by high quality music and arts opportunities. Please see the website for the many activities on offer to children and young people throughout Brighton & Hove.
Brighton & Hove Music & Arts is the lead partner for SoundCity, the music education hub for Brighton & Hove, bringing together the leading organisations for music in the city. This partnership reflects the unique artistic and cultural landscape of the city, whose key mission is to enhance and further develop music education and opportunities that reflect the needs of children and young people. Alongside our colleagues in schools our strategic partners are Brighton Dome & Festival, Glyndebourne, University of Sussex and Rhythmix.
Music & Arts in Brighton & Hove
Noise, pollution and air quality
What you can do about noise and nuisance
In this section you will find:
If you would like permission to place objects on the public highway please select one of the application forms listed below.
Materials/plant licence application
Objects on the highway licence
If you have a disability, there are a number of ways we can help you live more independently in your home.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
Occupational Therapy Services are for people of all ages who have a physical disability living in Brighton & Hove.
Occupational Therapists aim to promote and assist in maintaining daily living skills, as well as providing information and support to people with a disability and their carers. They also provide daily living equipment and arrange adaptations to homes.
Equipment to help with daily living
Our aim is to support older people who want to stay living in their home. If this is not possible, to help them move to residential or nursing home care.
Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 5pm
Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm
Organising an event on council land
The quickest way to contact Parking services is to use the parking services contact form. This means your enquiry goes to the correct team and will help us deal with your application or enquiry quickly.
If you don't have access to the internet or need help using the online forms, you can phone us on the number above. We are unable to take general enquiries on this phone line.
The Parking Information centre at Hove Town Hall is currently closed.
Blue Badge scheme and disabled parking
Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) can issue a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) where a vehicle has parked in contravention.
The easiest way to pay or appeal a PCN is online. A link to further information on PCNs, including how you can pay or appeal, can be found here: Penalty Charge Notices
If you don't have access to the internet or need help using the online forms you can phone us on the number above. We are unable to take general enquiries on this phone line.
The Parking Information centre at Hove Town Hall is currently closed.
Pay your Penalty Charge Notice (including bus lane/CCTV)
Challenge your Penalty Charge Notice (including bus lanes/CCTV)
Brighton & Hove City Council currently manages some 1100 hectares of parks and green spaces. These are formal parks and gardens through local recreation grounds down to small open green spaces and woodlands.
Payment Services receive and process postal payments for council services.
Monday to Friday, 8.45pm to 4.30pm
PDQ machines take income for the relevant service area. For example if you want to buy something at the Pavilion you can pay by card via their PDQ machine. If you want to buy admission to the pavilion you can pay by their PDQ machine. If you want to pay your sundry debtors invoice over the telephone you can do so via their PDQ machine.
Payment can be made for items at PDQ machines situated in the following locations:
To provide council-wide, business planning and review function, and to identify, monitor, analyse and report on the performance of the council's services to the residents of the city.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Brighton & Hove City Council's Pest Control and Wildlife Mangement Department remove pests in residential homes and businesses. This includes rats, mice, fleas, cockroaches, wasps and squirrels.
For bird treatments please telephone the number given below.
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
Helping with pet care during a hospital stay.
If your hospital stay is planned you should make your own arrangements for pet care.
If your hospital admission is an emergency we will try to contact your next of kin and ask them to arrange pet care.
If you don't have anyone that can help we'll arrange to go into your property, remove any pets and place them in an appropriate setting. There is a charge for this.
Petitions are a call to action from a group of people in the city to the council.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Going to a full council or committee meeting
Equipment to help with daily living
We determine planning and listed building consent applications submitted to the council under the Planning Acts. We also investigate and take action against potential breaches of planning regulations.
If you are having problems submitting a planning application on line, you need to contact the Planning Portal directly. Send an email to support@planningportal.co.uk or Phone: 0333 323 4589 weekdays between 9am and 5pm excluding bank holidays. ·
The online planning register has details of the case officer, current status of the application, contact details for the applicant and the key dates for determining the application
If you are commenting on a planning application, use our online register. Please do not send comments directly to the case officer as this will delay them appearing on the register.
You will automatically be logged out of the system after 30 minutes. We recommend that you type any long responses into a document first and then copy it into the system.
If you want to submit other documents and photographs in support of your comments, you can send them to planning.applications@brighton-hove.gov.uk
For questions from residents about a specific planning application or enforcement case, the appointed case officer may be able to provide more information or clarification. Please note that they cannot start a correspondence, as they have to be impartial in the determination of the case.
You can find a planning officer's contact details on our website.
A request to investigate a potential breach of planning regulations by our enforcement team, must be reported using the following link
For residents who cannot access the internet, you can phone 01273 292222 from 9:30am to 1:30pm daily (excluding weekends and bank holidays).
The service does not generally see members of the public in person, unless it is either:
Do I need planning permission?
Local Requirements & Planning Application Forms
The Brighton & Hove playbus brings exciting open access play opportunities into the heart of communities across the city. All children are invited to join us in playing inside and outside all year round.
Our service, delivered by trained and dedicated play workers, is free, inclusive and open to everyone.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am to 5pm
Wednesday 10am to 5pm
Application for a permitted industrial process
Report an environmental nuisance
Environment Health service standards
Environmental emergencies (out of hours)
Report an environmental nuisance
Environmental Health - enquiries and complaints
Brighton and Hove Local Information Service.
By appointment only.
Brighton & Hove Connected - local intelligence
Address: Victoria Road, Portslade, BN41 1YF
How to contact council housing
Council buildings for conferences and events
Power of Attorney is a legal document where one person gives another person or persons the power to act on his or her behalf with regard to his or her property and financial affairs.
More detailed information can be found on the website of the Public Guardianship Office
Phone: 01273 29 00 00
This charming manor house powerfully re-creates the atmosphere of an Edwardian gentry home, both upstairs and downstairs. The Manor also has walled gardens and a fascinating pets' cemetery.
April to September:
1 October to31 March:
For full visitor information, check the Preston Manor website.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Offering procurement advice and assistance to contractors, potential suppliers and internal customers. Information on council contracts, contract managers, and how to access our tenders.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Contracts and tenders with the council
Contract strategy & procurement guidelines
The council has a Percent for Art Policy that operates as part of planning policy. The responsibility for the implementation of this policy sits jointly with Planning and the Arts and Creative Industries Unit.
If you would like to be added to the Public Art mailing list please email your details (address and email address) to arts@brighton-hove.gov.uk and you will automatically receive details of commissions as soon as they are available.
All new developments must offer access to adequate public transport facilities, this includes the capacity for existing services to serve the new demands placed on them by the proposed development.
In this section you will find:
Any queries relating to rabies should be directed to Surrey & Sussex Health Protection Unit.
Please follow the links below for information about records in Brighton & Hove.
Disabled Access
The council has a range of recycling services, including kerbside recycling services, recycling banks and household waste recycling sites.
How to use your recycling bins or boxes
Recycling points, sites or tips
What you can take to our recycling sites and where to find them
Rubbish, recycling and streets
Report a missed bin or box collection
The Regeneration & Renewal team distributes government regeneration funding in Brighton & Hove.
Email: aif@brighton-hove.gov.uk
For marriage and civil partnership ceremonies, commitment renewal of vows and naming ceremonies, citizenship ceremonies and the registration of births and deaths
Map link: Show map
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, 9.30am to 5pm and Wednesday 10am to 5pm
Births, deaths and marriages civil partnership and citizenship
A respite service for young people with severe learning disabilities.
Open 363 days a year (closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day) and operates 24 hours a day
The Short Term Care Unit operates for young people with a severe learning disability and challenging behaviour aged between 10 and 18 years old.
Residential short stays provide support to families enabling young people to remain in their own homes.
The aim of STC is to promote independence, provide support to families and work with the young people to help them manage their behaviours safely and appropriately
CQC registers, inspects and reports on social care services in England, including all care homes and care services.
Management of the council's leasehold properties and the Right to Buy scheme
Adoption of roads as public highways.
Email: roadadoption@brighton-hove.gov.uk
By appointment only.
The planning of roads and footpaths has a major impact on the character, quality and safety of residential areas.
It affects:
We have adopted the East Sussex County Council "Manual for Estate Roads 1995 edition, as amended" as our interim design guide for design and construction. We hope that the information it contains will help everyone involved with the design of both new developments and the renovation of older developments to create an environment which is attractive, convenient, safe and economical to construct and maintain.
Travel, transport and road safety
Road adoption application form
White line road marking for driveways
Parking schemes, restrictions & legislation
Road signs - report damaged or missing signs
The famous seaside palace of George IV is recognised as being one of the most extraordinary palaces in Europe. Admission fee payable.
See Royal Pavilion & Museums on Flickr
Read the Royal Pavilion and Museums blog
For visitor information, check the Royal Pavilion website.
Free audio tour included in admission price. Audio tours are available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, easy English and visually descriptive English for the visually impaired.
A 30 minute short tour in English and a chidren's tour is also available. Guided tours and group visits must be booked in advance.Gift shop. Royal Pavilion Tearoom. Rooms available for private and corporate hire, also wedding ceremonies and receptions.
Disabled access, wheelchair access to ground floor and state apartments, tactile tours for visually impaired people and Sennheiser system for people that are hard of hearing.
Cityclean collects rubbish from households and communal bins in the city.
Recycling, rubbish and street cleaning
Household Waste Recycling Sites
Report a missed bin or recycling box collection
Request a recycling or refuse bin
Reporting a missed bin collection
The school admissions team administer the allocation of school places for Brighton & Hove local authority schools.
Telephone lines are open from 8:30am to 1pm Monday to Friday
We are not able to meet members of the public face to face.
Administers exclusions from schools and provides advice for parents.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Brighton & Hove School Workforce and Governor Support team provides training, support and guidance for school governors and leaders. View our webpage for more information about how to become a governor in Brighton & Hove.
Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm
Provides free bus transport to school for children who qualify on distance or income grounds. Also provides transport for some children attending special schools.
Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 5.00pm
Friday 8.30 to 4.30
Provides information about all local authority schools in the city.
Telephone lines are open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 1pm
Bullying in schools information for parents and carers
Virtual School for children in care and previously in care
Employs school crossing patrol staff.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
School crossing patrols are provided in locations where children frequently need to cross the road on their way to school (e.g. opposite school premises, at major road junctions near a school) and where children may be in danger from road traffic.
The Seafront Office is located near Brighton Palace Pier, and is the centre for seafront maintenance, advice, lifeguards, sports facilities and lockers.
Email: seafrontoffice@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 292 715
Address: The Seafront Office, 141 King's Road Arches Lower Esplanade, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2FN
Specialist housing provision for people aged 55 and over who wish to maintain their independence with support. Scheme managers provide remote support by phone and email, and deliver a call service Monday to Friday. All homes come supplied with 24/7 emergency alarm support.
CareLink Plus alarm and telecare service
If you are a victim of rape or sexual assault the Safe in the City website can give you details of agencies that can support you. They also outline strategic work in the city.
Please call 999 if you or someone you know is in danger.
The licensing and monitoring of skips, scaffolds, hoarding and builders' materials upon the Public Highway.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
If you have a query regarding an item on the Public Highway you can complete the online pavement and road repairs reporting form or phone 01273 29 20 90.
We need a precise location, a description of the problem and, wherever possible, the name of the scaffold/skip company. All scaffolds and hoardings on the Highway have to display a brightly coloured, laminated licence visible from the street and be identified.
By law, all skips on the Highway need to be identified and have reflective markings. If you want to check that an item is licensed you can ask your contractor for the Licence Number and/or check with this office.
Skips, scaffolds, hoardings, materials and plant
Skips, scaffolds, hoardings, materials and plant or skip/container licence
Roads, pavements and potholes - report damage
Materials/plant licence application
Administers support for children with special and additional educational needs and disabilities.
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm
Friday, 9am to 4.30pm - please telephone first
Special educational needs and disabilities
Who can get free school transport
Special educational needs and disability support
We offer a broad range of outdoor pitch or court bookings including football, cricket, rounders, stoolball, tennis and bowls. We also have the Pavilions at The Level for private hire for community activities.
Disabled Access
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9am to 5pm
Wednesday 10am to 5pm
Apply for a licence for your outdoor fitness group
An online training planner where you view all courses and download an application form. In the future Brighton & Hove school staff will be able to log-in online and manage their training, view training history and apply for training directly.
Trained advisers at our local stop smoking services can help you quit for good. The service offers free one-to-one support along with stop smoking medications at the cost of a prescription, or free if you are exempt.
Voluntary smokefree outdoor dining
Cityclean provides a street cleaning service for Brighton & Hove. This includes clearing litter, dog mess and other discarded rubbish from the city's streets, beaches, gutters and litter bins.
Street jet washing, chewing gum removal and motorised road sweepers
Street furniture can range between public seats to non-illuminated and illuminated road signs and bollards. Highway furniture will be maintained by cityclean.
Recycling, rubbish and street cleaning
Street lights - report faulty lighting
All proposals for new street names/changes of names In Brighton & Hove must be sent to the council for approval prior to being brought into use.
We're the statutory authority for the naming and numbering of streets and buildings in the city. The appropriate naming and numbering of streets and buildings is important for identifying properties. It's used to support record keeping and responses to emergencies by ambulance, police and fire services.
All addresses are recorded in the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) in a consistent format.
You can:
Street naming & numbering proposals
Local residents and community groups can apply to close the road to hold street parties in their area or for safe play.
Street parties and play streets
Organising an event on council land
Information and advice about applications for financial support to students that want to enter further education and those already in higher education
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Families, children and learning
Student support - Student grants & loans
Help with travel and living costs for FE students
We use the supported employment model of working with people with disabilities, to help them find work and stay in work. We work in partnership with local employers.
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
The Sustainability Team provides professional advice in all aspects of sustainability.
Prince Regent Swimming Complex
In this section you will find:
To control the licensing of objects on the public highway.
All tables and chairs on the public highway have to be licensed. It is the traders responsibility to get a licence.
The licence specifies where items can be placed and the maximum area that can be taken up.
Licensees have to display a circular sticker (like a Tax Disk) in their door or window to show that they have a licence. These stickers indicate where tables and chairs are allowed to be placed.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Highway licensing - shop displays, tables and chairs and advertising boards
Objects on the highway licence
Information for teachers and support staff.
The phone lines are open from 8.30am to 5pm
The Keep holds an extensive range of material for the study of Brighton & Hove's history and culture.
Email: seafrontoffice@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 292 715
Address: The Seafront Office, 141 King's Road Arches Lower Esplanade, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2FN
There are two Household Waste Recycling Sites for Brighton & Hove residents to recycle or dispose of their own household waste.
Check the recycling centre pages for opening times.
What you can take to our recycling sites and where to find them
Getting rid of large and electrical household items
Rubbish, recylcing and streets
Recycling, refuse and street cleaning report form
Public toilets in Brighton & Hove.
Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm
Improving and maintaining standards of fair trading in relation to quality, quantity, safety and description.
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4.30pm
For more information & guidance please contact the Citizens Advice Consumer Service
This team deals with the planning, scheduling, and management of roadworks and activities throughout the city's road network.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4pm
Traffic management permit scheme
Maintenance of traffic lights and pedestrian crossings.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Traffic lights and signals - report a fault
Our aim is to make Brighton & Hove a city fit for people. Our travel, transport and road safety schemes are geared towards helping residents, businesses and visitors to get around the city efficiently and safely. We want to give people more choice in how they travel and make it easy for everyone, whether they’re walking, cycling, driving, riding, using public transport, or even skating, blading and scooting.
The Traveller Liaison Services offers several services including:
Disabled Access
10am to 4pm
The Arboricultural Service deals with most tree-related issues within Brighton & Hove.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Tree Trust - celebrate or commemorate by planting a tree
Tree Trust Fund - planting a tree
There are a variety of rooms in council buildings available to hire for conferences and events.
We also have a range of meeting rooms and IT suites available in our libraries, including conference rooms in the award winning Jubilee Library.
Council buildings for conferences and events
To raise the educational achievements of Children in Care and those Previously in Care.
Virtual School for children in care and previously in care
Special educational needs and disabilities
Things to do and what's on in Brighton & Hove.
The Volks Railway was the first public electric railway in the world and is still running today.
The train line opens from Easter to September.
Trains run every 15 minutes at half past, quarter to, on the hour and quarter past until the last train of the day.
Check the Volks railway web page for details of fares and closures due to maintenance and weather conditions.
The train line is open from Easter to September.
The first train at 10.15am, and 11.15am on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The last train is at 5pm, Monday to Friday and 6pm on weekends and bank holidays.
Voluntary help to support patients, staff and volunteers. Giving a range of volunteering opportunities for interested members of the public.
Monday to Friday, from 9.30am or 10am
Community and voluntary sector support
Electoral Services deals with registering of voters and organising elections.
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Monday to Friday, 8.45am to 5.15pm
We manage the content on the main council website, working closely with developers in the council's IT&D team.
Use our website feedback form to tell us if you experience any problems using our website.
Email: webcontent@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Help using the council website
The welfare rights team offers advice on all social security benefits and provides a small amount of tribunal representation.
General information is given by by Adult Social Care’s Access Point on 01273 29 55 55
Advice Agencies and useful links
A Grade II listed building with information on the history of milling and of the mill. Exhibits include scale models of mills, a Thresher and a Wire Dressing Machine, plus many articles of both milling and agricultural interest.
May to September, Sundays and public holidays 2.30pm to 5pm
Admission fee payable
Childcare jobs, training and information for those providing childcare
Early education and childcare professionals
Provides services to young offenders, their families and to victims of youth crime to reduce offending.
The service works with over 350 young people and their families each year, taking referrals from the Police and the Courts. Crime reduction targets are set nationally by the Youth Justice Board and the team works to national standards to reduce offending and anti-social behaviour by young people.
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm
Friday, 9am to 4.30pm
Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Service
Our youth service works with young people aged 11 to 25 years old. We give priority to young people aged 13 to 19 years old, and up to age 24 years old if there is a Statement of Educational Needs (SEN).
We work closely in partnership with the Brighton & Hove Youth Collective and other council services to support young people in Brighton & Hove.