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If you have an urgent query, call the main switchboard on 0117 922 2000.
First Response for welfare concerns about children
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If your notification or request is non-urgent, please wait and complete a webform when the service returns.
Pay council tax
You can pay your council tax:
- on our payment website
- by phone: 0870 707 7776, calls cost up to 2p per minute plus your phone provider's access charge
- on the Allpay app, available from the App Store and Google Play
- by online or telephone banking. Our bank details are: sort code: 56-00-05, account number: 41322266. Use your council tax account number on the left of your council tax bill as your payment reference
Find our services online
These online service continue to be available:
- Jobs at the council
- Clean Air Zone: check your vehicle and pay the Clean Air Zone charge on GOV.UK
- Pay rent, council fines or invoices
- Residents' parking
- School admissions
- Bin and recycling collection days
- Missed bin or recycling collection
- Recycling centres: book a visit
- Register Office services
- Register a birth
- Register a death
- Give notice of marriage
- Give notice of civil partnership
- Get a copy of a certificate
- Democratic meeting webcasts
- HomeChoice Bristol: register and apply for social housing
- Fix My Street: report blocked drains, potholes, broken street lights and other street issues
- Libraries West
- Maps
Abuse, crime or violence
- Call 999 if a crime is happening now or you're in immediate danger
- Call 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 if there's no immediate danger
Meetings, agendas and minutes
Find more information on the council's decision making processes on democracy.bristol.gov.uk