Helpful information for residents new to Aylesbury Vale

Aylesbury Vale street

We would like to welcome you to your new home and hope you will be very happy living in the Aylesbury Vale area for many years to come.

Aylesbury Vale covers over 300 miles of rolling North Buckinghamshire countryside, with busy market towns, enchanting villages and magnificent county houses. So you will have plenty to see and explore.

Our website offers a wealth of information that you may find helpful, both now and in the long term. As there is so much information on our site, we have gathered here some useful links that may be particularly helpful to you as a new resident in your first few weeks.

Services we provide
We provide many of your local services, but others are provide by the county council and your local town or parish council. The services can be found under the A-Z tab on our homepage.

Refuse and recycling collection

Most households are supplied with:

• 1 wheeled bin for refuse (collected weekly)
• 1 recycling basket for plastics and cans (collect fortnightly)
• 1 recycling basket for paper (collected fortnightly)
• 1 recycling box, with lid, for glass (collected every four weeks).

If you are in the Buckingham or Winslow area you will also have a brown bin for garden waste which is collected on alternate weeks from your green wheeled bin.

Go to our refuse and recycling section for more information about this service including ordering bins and baskets, recycling information and waste and recycling centres.

Text alerts
We offer a free text alert system to your mobile phone, offering you reminders of when to put your bins out when there are changes to your normal collections.

You can also get information on a wide range of services. You are free to choose which topics you would like to receive information about and we promise not to use your number for any other purpose.

Council Tax

AVDC receives £2.52 a week from the average Band D property. We charge one of the lowest rates of council tax, set by a district council, in the country.

The remainder of your council tax is shared between:

• Bucks County Council
• Bucks Fire and Rescue
• Thames Valley Police
• Your town or parish council.

Visit the council tax pages for a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the service, including how to register to pay and any discounts you may be entitled to.

Register to vote
If you’ve just moved house you need to register to vote again, even if you have moved within the Vale. You’ll need to print the form and sign it and then send it back to us. Go to our election and voting pages, which include the registration and application for a postal vote forms.

Keeping in touch with news and developments
There are many ways to contact us and for us to keep you updated on the latest developments in the Vale. Our website is a rich source of news. You can follow us on Facebook (AVDC) and Twitter (@aylesburyvale).

If you would like to be involved in consultation and give your views on various aspects of our service, then you might like to consider joining our residents panel. To be included simply email: consultation@aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk.

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