Consumer advice
You'll find useful sites for Consumer information in our list Find: Consumer and Legal. Just click on Lancashire Libraries List to see all our Good Web Guide lists.
Enter your postcode to check flooding, subsidence, pollution, landfill sites, schools, crime rates and planning information in your neighbourhood. Free reports are based on postcode areas - reports for individual properties can be produced for a fee.The site is produced by the Landmark Information Group.
HomeSwapper is for social tenants looking for a house swap (often called a ’mutual exchange’) whether it is a housing association or council house exchange. The website also includes information for landlords.
This web site provides a free service giving the prices for recent house sales for specific addresses throughout the UK.
This government site has separate access points for planning professionals and the general public. Local Information allows you to search for applications in your area. The site also gives general advice on the planning process and allows you to make an application online.
Use this site to find the property valuation band from the database of over 23 million domestic properties in England and Wales.
This is the Building Regulations section of the government's planning advice site, Planning Portal. Here you will find the 'Approved Documents' which detail the technical requirements of the building regulations.
This site maintained by the Federation of Master Builders allows you to find small to medium-sized building companies in your area that are members of the federation. There are currently details on 13,000 members.
This website provides a search service of social housing and provides information on housing associations, local authorities and other organisations in the social housing field. Access to the information is free but registration and payment is required if you want to export it into a speadsheet format - (this facility is, however, provided free to employees of local authorities and housing associations).
This web site provides independent professional guidance and advice on planning and related legal issues.
Enter you twitter username and postcode at this site and you will receive twitter DM (direct message) alerts for all local planning applications when they are submitted (Note: not all District councils in Lancashire subscribe to this service, check the "Is my area covered? link.)