Technical Issues with our phone lines

We're experiencing some technical issues with our phone lines. We're working hard to fix this as soon as possible and apologise for any inconvenience.

You can contact us using our self service pages.

Your council tax, benefits and business rates account will be offline

From 5pm on Tuesday 7 October until 5pm Friday 10 October you will not be able to access your council tax, benefits or business rates account online. This is whilst we upgrade our system. Housing Benefit and Local Council Tax Support online application forms remain available. Our information line also remains open on 0330 123 0081. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Hire of public parks and open spaces

Guildford has more than 65 parks, which can be hired as venues for commercial, community or charity events such as:

music concerts, funfairs, firework fiestas or fetes
sponsored walks, raft races or Santa runs
regular school PE, fitness sessions or other sporting activities
filming and unit bases
hot air balloon launches
team building such as forest school and nature walks

Hire a park for a public event

Hire one of our parks or outdoor spaces for your commercial or community events.

Hire a park for regular activity

Apply for a licence to use our parks for regular activities.

Bandstand concerts and outdoor theatres

Apply to perform on our bandstand or hold an outdoor theatre performance.

Request to film in Guildford

Apply to film in Guildford, we're film friendly location.

Hot air balloon launches

Apply to launch a hot air balloon from Shalford Park.