Private home owners

Find information if you are a private home owner, including building your own home, making repairs or improvements to your home and making your home energy efficient.

Make changes, repairs and improvements to your home

Carry out work on your home
Make sure you're following building rules and check if you need planning permission before starting work on your home.
Changes to your home if you have a disability, illness or health condition
If you have a disability, illness or health condition, you might benefit from a change to your home. These changes are often called adaptations.

Making your property energy efficient

How to be energy efficient at home
Where to get advice to become more energy efficient, how to get a free smart meter, and help for private tenants and property owners to save energy, including possible grants.
Schemes to help with improving energy efficiency
Find out about the ECO4 and GBIS schemes which require some energy suppliers to help with the cost of improving a home’s energy efficiency.

Building your own home

Join the register to build your own home
Find out how to apply to be on our self build and custom housebuilding register.

Information about empty properties

How to find and buy an empty property
Where to look for empty properties in Brighton & Hove.
Bring your empty property back into use
If you own an empty property and are not sure what to do with it, find out what options are available to you.
Report an empty or derelict property
Tell us if a property you live near is empty or derelict.
Update us on an empty property you own
Tell us about a change to your empty property, such as someone moving in or work being done.
How we make sure empty properties are reused
Find out what powers we can use to make sure empty properties are brought back into use.

Selling your property back to the council

Sell your property back to the council
If you own a former council home, you can make an offer to sell it back to us.