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Housing teams contact details

Team: Allocations

Phone number: 01395 517469

Email: HousingAllocations@eastdevon.gov.uk for general enquiries and devonhomechoice@eastdevon.gov.uk for Devon Home Choice enquiries

Responsibilities: Devon Home Choice (council house) register and applications, Garages and mutual exchanges

 

Team: Communities

Phone number: 01395 517453

Email: tenantsandcommunities@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Help with starting resident associations and getting involved in improving housing services, Engaging with your ideas to make your housing community better, Organising events and community hubs

 

Team: Compliance

Phone number: 01395 517458

Email: compliance@eastdevon.gov.uk 

Responsibilities: Asbestos safety, Electrical safety, Fire safety, Gas and Heating Compliance, Building Safety, Passenger Lift, Stairlift and Track Hoist Servicing and Maintenance, Legionella, Air source heat pumps, Solid fuel, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Radon, Sewage Treatment Plant servicing

 

Team: Estate management

Phone number: 01395 571755

Email: EstateManagement@eastdevon.gov.uk 

Responsibilities: Council housing tenant liaison, Dealing with anti-social behaviour, graffiti, fly-tipping, and untidy communal areas and gardens, Helping to resolve neighbour disputes, Enforcing tenancy conditions, Dealing with abandoned properties and properties in poor condition, Tackling general welfare issues

 

Team: Home safeguard

Phone number: 0330 678 2381

Email: homesafeguard@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Emergency alarm monitoring service, Installing and maintaining personal alarm equipment, Out of hours customer enquiry service, ensuring access to urgent information including emergency repairs

 

Team: Permissions

Phone number: 01395 517458

Email: Permission@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Permission requests

 

Team: Planned works

Phone number: 01395 517458

Email: Plannedworks@eastdevon.gov.uk  for general enquiries and adaptations@eastdevon.gov.uk for adaptations enquiries

Responsibilities: Scheduled upgrades and maintenance, Cyclical maintenance, Adaptations for tenants with disabilities or mobility issues

 

Team: Rentals

Phone number: 01395 517444

Email: HousingRental@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Payments for council homes and garages, Rent arrears, Service charges and other tenancy-related charges

 

Team: Repairs and maintenance

Phone number: 01395 517458

Email: repairs@eastdevon.gov.uk or  contact form at Request a repair to your home (council house) - Self

Responsibilities: Day-to-day and emergency repairs, Damp and mould issues

 

Team: Sheltered housing

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Email: ShelteredHousing@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Help with managing a sheltered housing tenancy, Enquiries about Mobile Support Officers

 

Non-housing teams you can contact about relevant issues

Team: Benefits

Phone number: 01395 571770

Email: Benefits@eastdevon.gov.uk 

Responsibilities: Housing benefit, Council tax reduction

 

Team: Council pest control service

Phone number: 01395 517457

Email: environmentalhealth@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Pest control enquiries

 

Team: Housing Benefit overpayments

Phone number: 01395 571770

Email: debt@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Debt enquiries

 

Team: Recycling and waste

Phone number: 01395 571515

Email: csc@eastdevon.gov.uk

Responsibilities: Recycling and waste enquiries, Garden waste

 

Team: Right to buy

Phone number: NA

Email: RightToBuy@eastdevon.gov.uk 

Responsibilities: Enquiries about purchasing a council property

 

Team: Trees

Phone number: NA

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Responsibilities: Trees enquiries

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Last updated 29 May 2026