Pay council bills, fines and invoices

Licences and permits

Crime and emergencies

Contact Bristol City Council

Consultations and petitions

Data protection and FOI

Information for businesses

Policies, plans and strategies

MOT testing

Business rates information requests

Do not link to an anchor on the page that does not exist. For example:
linking to `#content` without a valid destination such as `<body id="content"></body>`.

A common web design pattern is to use a named anchor to show an element via JavaScript, e.g.

```html
<a href="#foo" onclick="$('.bar').toggle();">Click me</a>
<div class="bar">
    This is some content.
</div>
``` 

In these cases, the anchor (`#foo`) should point to the `id` of the hidden element:

```html
<a href="#foo" onclick="$('#foo').toggle();">Click me</a>
<div id="foo">
    This is some content.
</div>
```

This way the semantic intent of the link is preserved, even without JavaScript. 
Note that doing so may require modification to your script, to prevent automatic 
scrolling to the named anchor.

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September 2025

August 2025

Bristol City Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Pay council bills, fines and invoiceswww.bristol.gov.uk/pay-council-bills-fines-and-invoices	2
	Licences and permitswww.bristol.gov.uk/business/licences-and-permits	1
	Crime and emergencieswww.bristol.gov.uk/residents/crime-and-emergencies	1
	Contact Bristol City Councilwww.bristol.gov.uk/contact	1
	Consultations and petitionswww.bristol.gov.uk/council/consultations-and-petitions	1
	Data protection and FOIwww.bristol.gov.uk/council/data-protection-and-foi	1
	Information for businesseswww.bristol.gov.uk/business	1
	Policies, plans and strategieswww.bristol.gov.uk/council/policies-plans-and-strategies	1
	MOT testingwww.bristol.gov.uk/residents/streets-travel/mot-testing	1
	Business rates information requestswww.bristol.gov.uk/business/business-rates/business-rates-data	1

Avoid linking to anchors that do not exist

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