A-Z Services Directory

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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 292040
Email: environmental@wrexham.gov.uk

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

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

Health Challenge Wrexham www.healthchallengewrexham.co.uk
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, or e
Email: health@wrexham.gov.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

Hedgerows
Information regarding the grant aid currently available to help restore our former or existing hedgerows.

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

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

Tel: 01978 317970
Email: musuem@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.

Tel: 01978 298989
Email: contact-us@wrexham.gov.uk

Home Care Service
This service provides personal care in your own home according to your needs.

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

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 244240
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

House in Multiple Occupation (HMO)
Information regarding HMO grants. 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: planning@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 292911
Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing Benefits
Advice about benefits available to people on low income or unemployed. Contact your estate office if you are a Council Tenant.

Tel: 01978 292033
E-mail: housingbenefits@wrexham.gov.uk

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

Broughton: 01978 722020
Caia: 01978 317040
Gwersyllt: 01978 720005
Wrexham Central: 01978 292062
Plas Madoc: 01978 813000
Rhos: 01978 832900

Email: housing@wrexham.gov.uk

Housing Repairs
For all housing repair information, please contact your local estate office.

Broughton: 01978 722020
Caia: 01978 317040
Gwersyllt: 01978 720005
Wrexham Central: 01978 292062
Plas Madoc: 01978 813000
Rhos: 01978 832900

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