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• Money Help Factsheet - Are You in Need of Financial Help? , from the Lib Dems is available online. DOWNLOAD NOW.
  
  
• FixMyStreet.com - POTHOLES, LIGHTS OUT, GRAFFITI, FLY-POSTING, ENVIRO-CRIME, ETC.,
  Report a problem in your street, and see what other problems have already been reported in your postcode area.
  See the latest problems already reported for Houghton Regis.
  
  
• HOUGHTON REGIS TOWN COUNCIL
  The town council services include maintenance of playing areas and cemeteries, promotion of Houghton Regis, supporting youth projects and youth development, community safety, carnival, town centre development.
  Elected councillors are unpaid, and attend committee meetings to decide on Environment issues, Policy, Grants, comment on Planning Applications (but not decide them), approve expenditure. Visit the town council website for further information.
  Houghton Regis Town Council
  Peel Street
  Houghton Regis
  Beds LU5 5EY
  
  • Location Map: Google Map
    
  • Tel: 01582 708542
    
  • Fax: 01582 861102
    
  • Web: www.houghtonregis-tc.org.uk
    
    
• ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND NUISANCE
  Central Bedfordshire Council: Nuisance Advice ~ Noise Enforcement Protocol ~ Environmental Crimes ~ homeoffice.gov.uk
  • If the anti-social behaviour is serious enough to make you fear for your safety or the safety of others, you should contact the police directly, either by dialling 999, or by calling your local police station on 01582 401212.
    
    
• ALCOHOL
  Sons and daughters need to know you are concerned, care for them, and that you will check up on them. Even if you trust them, ask them how they are spending their money, their time, and with whom, and don't be put off if your questions annoy them. Teenagers will push the envelope. They take risks.
  • http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk - Alcohol Concern can advise on statistics, reseach, and treatment centres.
    
  • ias.org.uk - Institute of Alcohol - scientific reports, fact sheets, "adolescents and alcohol" factsheet. "alcohol and dring driving".
    
  • DownYourDrink.org.uk - alcohol screening and advice if you think you are drinking too much, or need to know how to cut back.
    
  • parentlineplus.org.uk charity helps with many issues including teenage drinking. Free confidential parent line 0808 800 2222
    
  
  
  
• GRAFFITTI, FLY-TIPPING - unsightly! If it is reported quickly, it is easier to remove. Call Envirocrime 0845 849 5972.
  
  
• WHEELIE BINS
  Residents in Houghton Regis with problems to do with wheelie bins can:
  • Ring 0300 300 8000 to speak to a Customer Service officer.
    
  • Visit the Customer Services team based inside the library at Bedford Square, Tithe Farm Road Houghton Regis, LU5 5ES.
    
  • Write (or Visit) to Environmental Waste Services team, The Council Offices, High Street North, Dunstable, LU6 1LF
    
  
  ROADWORKS, Road Closures, Traffic Information, IceAlert, Grass Cutting, Lights Out, Potholes
  
• • Telephone Highways, 0300 300 8049 or,
    
  • Email:
    
    
  • For Dunstable and Houghton Regis these Highway contacts may be useful:
    
    • DISTRICT MANAGER Anthony Hood 0845 3656038 / 07780 706564
      
    • AREA STEWARD Chris Clarke 0845 3656238 / 07725 445446
      
    • AREA TECHNICIAN Maureen Ridgley 0845 3656240 / 07725 445448
      
  
  
  
• CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL
• • Check out the Central Beds Services on offer at the local library complex in Bedford Square, Houghton Regis.
    They offer help with all types of problems.
    Opening times are 9.00 to 5.30 Monday to Thursday, and until 4.30 on Fridays.
    Type of enquiries dealt with:
    Council tenants:
    Rent payments (but not cash); balances, payment methods and arrangements Housing repairs, housing surveyor Housing improvements and adaptions Home exchange - Homeswap Tenant participation
    Council Tax enquiries
    Environmental waste enquiries
    Travel permits
    RADAR
    Highway enquiries - street maintenance, street lights, road signs, blue badge, disabled parking, car parks.
    
    Housing and council tax benefit enquiries
    Private Sector housing enquiries
    - illegal evictions, housing conditions assessments, safety inspections, home improvements, home adaptions.
    
  
  
  • Other Local offices for Dunstable and Houghton Regis:
    
  • • The District Offices
      High Street North
      Dunstable
      Bedfordshire
      LU6 1LF
      
      • Location Map: Google Map
        
      • Telephone: Central Bedfordshire Customer Services on 0300 300 8000
        
      • Textphone: 18001 0300 3008000
        
      • E-mail: customer.services@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
        
      • Website: www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
        
      
      Main address:
      
      Central Bedfordshire Council
      Priory House
      Monks Walk
      Chicksands
      Shefford
      Bedfordshire
      SG17 5TQ
      

      • Location Map: Google Map
        
        • Opening hours
          
        • Monday - Thursday: 0830 - 1700
          
        • Friday: 0830 - 1600
          
  
  
  
• HOUGHTON REGIS POLICE
  Sundon Road. Open 9am to 5pm. - Tel: 01582 473348. The main switchboard number is (01582) 401212 . The Call Handling Unit is staffed 24hrs a day 7 days a week and the operators are trained in grading all calls and directing suitable responses.
  You can also
  
  Safer Neighbourhood Team
  Inspector David Boyle, Sergeant Colin Eldred
  PC Graham Arnold - Tithe Farm and Houghton Hall EastMore details...
  PC Darren Bambury - Parkside and Houghton Hall West More details...
  
  
  Crime-fighting Sign-up for Ringmaster at safer-beds.org to get notified about crime in your selected area.
  
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• CITIZEN ADVICE BUREAU Dunstable; Luton; Leighton Linslade; Hemel Hempstead; Harpenden; Tring.
  
  
• Consumer Direct Call on 08454 04 05 06 (Minicom users should call 08451 28 13 84). Or e-mail Consumer Direct.
  
• Consumer Direct website ~ A wide range of consumer information and advice.
  
  
• CRIMESTOPPERS - Tel: 0800 555 111
  
  
• HELP WITH ALL SORTS OF THINGS TO DO WITH GOVERNMENT
  
  
• POTHOLES ~ use this site's interactive map to inform the relevant authority of a pothole that you've seen. www.fillthathole.org.uk.
  
  
• Motoring ~ Direct Gov - DVLA, Report an untaxed vehicle, Medical rules, Theft proof licence plates ... more.
  
  
• Hertfordshire County Council Highways Dept. ~ Animals, Carriageway/Road/Cycleway, Drainage And Flooding, Fencing Issues, Footway/Verges, Highway Bridges And Walls, Information, Lighting And Traffic Signals, Miscellaneous Issues, Obstruction, Pothole, Signs And Street Name Plates, Speed And Red Light Cameras, Traffic And Parking Issues, Vegetation, Winter Maintenance.
  
  
• Report an Asda Wheelie Shopping Trolley. Copy this text into their comment form... This is an urgent message for your Dunstable store. Please pass it to them immediately. There is an Asda wheelie shopping trolley in relatively new condition dumped at [ give exact location].
  
  
• WATER - Three Valleys Water Emergencies.
  
  
• GAS Gas Emergencies - If you smell gas or are worried about gas safety, you can call the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999 at any time, day or night. Your call will be routed to the call centre.
  
  
• ELECTRICITY If you and your neighbours have no electricity supply; If you want to report fallen electricity power lines; If you need to report damage to underground electricity cables, in this region call EDF energy on 0800 7838838
  
  
• CABLE TV CABINETS ~ Report a dangerous tv cable cabinet at virginmedia.com/forms/cabinet.html
  
  
• NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL Forum and discussion web site to help you with (un)neighbourly problems.
  
  
• GARDENS - Problems with Trees, Roots, Walls, Boundaries, Bonfires, Garden Burial, High Hedges, Tree Preservation Orders, - http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk
  
  
• FOCUS TEAM - Write your problem into the Liberal Democrat Focus Team for Houghton Regis.
  
  


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