Living in Peterborough
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How to find accommodation in Peterborough?
- The Housing Advice gives advice to landlords and tenants in the private rented sector in Peterborough.
- The Housing Options Team gives advice on housing options available in Peterborough.
The Peterborough Homes CBL Housing Options leaflets are available in the following languages:Czech, Dari, English, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak and Urdu.
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- What is a tenancy agreement?
- You can find low cost furniture and equipment for your new home here.
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The benefit applications forms, housing benefit forms and translated information are available in the following languages:Czech, English, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese and Urdu.
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How to find a doctor, dentist, optician and pharmacies?
- Contact the NHSdirect local sites
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- The nearest walk-in centre can be found on Walk-in centre
- Introduction to the National Health Service (NHS)
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- Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (HARP).
- PsyRAS is a group of Clinical, Counselling and Educational Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists doing specialist placements with refugees and asylum seekers.
- Contact the Citizens Advice Bureau.
- General Health information.
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Information about School Places and Education
- Contact the School Admissions Team
- Information about School Places
- What happens if my child does not attend school regularly?
- ESOL (English) for Speakers of Other Languages
How to become involved in a community?
- The New Link Centre can put you in contact with other members of your community or give you help to start up your own community group.
- a valid driving licence;
- valid car insurance;
- a valid tax disc;
- a valid MOT certificate if your car is more than 3 years old.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) web page gives details Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and Motoring information. Multilingual road safety information can be found in The Basics, Safe Driving in the UK and THINK! road safety. Local road safety information can be found in Road Safety.
what you should do in an emergency and general enquiry?
- Dial 999 from any telephone and say what emergency service you require: Police, Fire Service, or an Ambulance
- Dial 08454 564564 for Peterborough Police general enquiries
- Dial 01480 444500 for Fire Service general enquiries.
- Dial 01733 874000 for Peterborough District Hospital
- Government advice - Preparing for an Emergency
- Floodwatch and Current Floodwarnings
- Weather warnings and Weather Information
- Terror alerts
- MI5 the official website of the UK Security Service.
- Water, Gas, Electric and other useful numbers
If your qualifications are valid in the UK?
- The National Academic Recognition Information Centre can tell you if your qualifications are valid in the UK
Where to find a job?
- Finding a job
- For information on finding a job look on our Frequently Asked Questions page under Work.
The benefits of volunteering?
- Peterborough Volunteer Centre provides advice, information and guidance to people thinking of volunteering in the local community.
- England's volunteer development agency (Volunteering England).
Not happy about complaints?
About the sport and leisure facilities that are available in Peterborough?
- Find information on Arts and Entertainment, Libraries, Museums and Galleries, Parks, Living Sports*, Sports, Clubs and Centres, Tourism and Travel and What's on in Peterborough .
Welcome to LIVING
SPORT, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Sports
Partnership.
Available in the following
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Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
How to recycle?
- Household Waste - Domestic Bins
- Recycle aerosols, cartons, food and drink cans, mixed paper, card, and plastic bottles in the Green Bin.
- Recycle garden waste such as grass cuttings, leaves, shrubs, weeds, bedding plants and dead flowers in the Brown Bin.
- Place all other household waste in the Black Bin.
Information about the Recycling in
Peterborough (Leaflets).
Available in the following languages:Arabic, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Dari, English, Farsi, French, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Pushto, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Urdu.
Further details are in Recycling
Do you want to find out more about fishing?
For further information on these
topics see useful links and contact the New Link Centre
about the 'Living in Peterborough'
course.
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