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Handy Person Service
The Handy Person Service is available to people over 60 and/or people with a disability and offers a wide variety of small repairs free of charge. See also: Building Grants.

Tel: 01978 268120
Email: planning@wrexham.gov.uk

Health & Safety at Work
The aim of this section is to protect the health and safety and welfare of employees and to safeguard others, principally the public, who may be exposed to risks from work activities.

Tel: 01978 298989
Email: Contact-Us@wrexham.gov.uk

Health Promotion and Education
Advice and guidance about health promotion initiatives within the County Borough.

Tel: 01978 298989
Email: Contact-Us@wrexham.gov.uk

Health Challenge Wrexham (external link)
Health Challenge Wrexham is: A challenge to you as an individual to do what you can to improve your own health and the health of your family; a challenge to local businesses to promote and improve the health of their employees and customers.

Tel: 01978 297023 or 01978 297063
Email: health@wrexham.gov.uk
Website: healthchallengewrexham.co.uk

Health Listings
Listings and contact information for GPs, Chemists, Dentists and Opticians as provided by the Wrexham Local Area Health Group.

Tel: 01978 297023
Email: health@wrexham.gov.uk

Hearing Impaired and Visually Impaired Services
To provide support and promote systems which will enable a person to attain maximum independence and to adjust to their disability physically, emotionally, intellectually or socially.

Tel: 01978 292066
Email: socialservices@wrexham.gov.uk

Heritage and Culture
Information about the culture and heritage of Wrexham County Borough including galleries, famous people and exhibitions.

Tel: 01978 297460
Email: museum@wrexham.gov.uk or localstudies@wrexham.gov.uk or archives@wrexham.gov.uk

Highways Maintenance
The Highways Maintenance Division deals with the majority of maintenance within the highway.

Aspects covered include maintenance of footways, carriageways, highway surface water drainage, street lighting, signs, roads markings, traffic signals, out of town centre car parks and some rural grass verges. In addition, the division deals with the co-ordination and control of works by utility companies and with emergencies, particularly related to weather, such as frost, snow and rain, and also general matters such as the result of roads traffic accidents.

In person: Contact Wrexham 16 Lord Street, Wrexham
Tel: 01978 298989
Email: contact-us@wrexham.gov.uk

Homecare Service
Homecare is the provision of staff within your home to assist you with all aspects of your personal care. The service is available to adults of all ages and to parents and families, staff are active at all hours of the day or night.

Tel: 01978 292066
Email: socialservices@wrexham.gov.uk
Minicom: 01978 265083
Typetalk: 18002 01978 265083

Homelessness
Help for homeless people or those about to become homeless is available. Some homeless people qualify for emergency accommodation and re-housing. Others are given help and advice to find their own housing.

Tel: 01978 292947 / 01978 292949 / 01978 292937 or out of hours: 01978 294240
Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

House Extensions
Local Planning Guidance Note 20. This is one of a series of Local Planning Guidance notes amplifying Development Plan proposals in a concise format. The guidelines which follow have been prepared and adopted by the County Borough Council to inform prospective house owners, builders and agents about the issues relating to house extensions, and to encourage a better standard of design.

Tel: 01978 292016
Email: planning@wrexham.gov.uk

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)
Information regarding Houses in Multiple Occupation. Long term strategies and priorities for HMO's. See also: Local Planning Guidance Note 5 - Conversion of Dwellings to Houses in Multiple Occupation.

Tel: 01978 292016
Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing
Information, advice and online facilities about housing benefit, local estate offices and associated information about Wrexham County Borough Council Housing.

Tel: 01978 315300
Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing Estate Offices
Contact your local housing estate office for matters concerning repairs, housing benefits, garden maintenance scheme and sheltered accommodation.

Tel: 01978 315300
Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing Repairs
For all housing repair information.

0800 0855 808 (calls are free from a landline and are recorded for monitoring and training purposes). It is important to remember to dial the full number.

Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing in the Countryside
Local Planning Guidance Note 13. National and local planning policies state that development in the open countryside, away from established settlements, should generally be strictly controlled. These include countryside with no formal protection as well as specially designated areas such as green barriers, areas of local landscape value and sites of nature conservation interest.

Tel: 01978 292016
Email: planning@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing Renewal Area (HRA) Grant
For information about grant aid in the current Housing Renewal Areas of Smithfield/Hightown, Brymbo/Broughton and South West Wrexham.

Tel: 01978 315585
Email: arearenewal@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing - Supporting People
Supporting People is a government programme which aims to provide housing related support to vulnerable people living in the community, allowing them to live independently and avoid the risk of becoming homeless.

Tel: 01978 315300
Email: supportingpeople@wrexham.gov.uk

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