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• Pay your council tax via direct debit
  Please note that if you need to let us know of a change of your bank account details you will need to fill in a new direct debit form  
• Council tax - receive your bill electronically
• Change of address form for council tax
• Change of circumstances form for council tax
• Council tax requested evidence form
• Council tax refund form
• Council tax tenancy information form (Landlords can advise us of a change of occupancy to their property)
• Enquiry form

Discount and help application forms

Apply for council tax discount

This includes: apprentices, away giving care, care workers and carers, child benefit recipients, detention, empty and unfurnished (class c), foreign language assistant, in care home, in need of care, occupied by SMIs, occupied by students, occupied by under 18s, occupied by visiting force, patients in hospital, school/college leavers and student nurses.

Please note: From 1 April 2024, the empty and unfurnished (class c) and the uninhabitable discount will no longer be available due to a change in policy.

• Disabled band reduction application form
• Exceptional circumstances form for council tax
• Council tax occupied annexe discount
• Second home discount application form
• Severely mentally impaired discount application form
• Single occupancy discount application form
• Council tax single person discount cancellation form
• Application for discount for a property requiring or undergoing major/structural alteration. Please read this document which advises the types of repair and alteration included [PDF] 12KB.

Change of circumstances

• Benefits change of circumstances form including moving out of the area
• Benefits change of address form due to moving within the area
• Benefits application form for extra bedroom provision due to a disabled person [docx] 30KB
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction Review

Apply for support

• Discretionary housing payment claim form
• Extra bedroom provision due to a disabled child application form [docx] 33KB
• Housing benefit and council tax support claim form
• Council tax exceptional hardship relief form
• Housing Benefit Claim Form for Temporary Accommodation

Supporting documentation

• Benefits requested evidence form
• Self-employed earnings form

• Pay your business rates via direct debit
• Occupation form - advising of occupation of business premises
• Small business rate relief
• Vacation form - to advise when moving out of business premises
• Business rates refund form

• Social housing application
• Right to buy your home (RTB1 form)
• Right to Buy Additional Information [pdf] 146KB
• Apply to make alterations to a council property

Due to the current Covid-19 situation, we are no longer able to accept online Notice to Vacate applications in the borough of Ashford with immediate effect. This will be reviewed and updated as the situation evolves. Paper forms can be requested by making contact with your Neighbourhood Officer.

• Planning applications
• Street name and numbering

• Permits and season tickets
• Disabled parking bay
• Disabled Blue Badge (apply through KCC)

• Speak at a council meeting
• Speak at Planning Committee

• New Driver Licence (Taxi)
• New Vehicle (Taxi) 
• Private hire operator's licence (Taxi)
• Distributing Free Literature Permit  
• Applying for a premises licence
• Personal Licence
• Temporary Event Notice
• Animal Licences 
• Licensing Check and Send Service
• Vary Premises Licence to specify DPS
• Skin piercing registration

• Allotments
• Food hygiene classroom-based courses
• Jobs
• Ashford general income and expenditure form
• Bins: request a new one
• Capital/Revenue Grant
• Apply for FACS Membership (Sports facilities)
• Community litter pick
• Apply for or Cancel Assisted Collection(s)