Requesting Permission to keep pets in a council home
To request permission to keep a pet, or ask further questions regarding keeping a pet, please get in touch with your Area housing Officer.
Where permission is required, we will not unreasonably refuse permission, but we will consider whether the welfare of any of the following may suffer should permission be granted:
- Any person living with you
- Your neighbours
- Any person visiting the property or the locality
- The animal you wish to keep, or
- Any other animal you already own
You must not keep the following animals at your council property
- Any dog to which the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applies
- Any animal to which the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 applies
- Any dangerous animal
- Any livestock
- Any animal which causes a health and safety risk in the area
- Any animal which is not bred to be a domestic pet
