Parish Council Powers

Allotments

• Duty to provide allotments.

• Power to improve and adapt land for allotments, and to let grazing rights

Baths and washhouses

• Power to provide public baths and washhouses

Burial grounds, cemeteries and crematoria

• Power to acquire and maintain

• Power to provide

• Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials

• Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries

Bus shelters

• Power to provide and maintain shelters

Bye-laws

• Power to make bye-laws in regard to pleasure grounds

• Cycle parks

• Baths and washhouses

• Open spaces and burial grounds

• Mortuaries and post-mortem rooms

Clocks

• Power to provide public clocks

Closed churchyards

• Powers as to maintenance

Common pastures

• Powers in relation to providing common pasture

Conference facilities

• Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities

Community centres

• Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or recreational objectives

Crime prevention

• Powers to install and maintain equipment and establish and maintain a scheme for detection or prevention of crime

• Power to contribute to police services e.g. PCSOs

• Duty on Parish Councils to consider crime reduction in every policy and action

Drainage

• Power to deal with ponds and ditches

Dogs

• Power to make a Dog Control Order

• Power to take enforcement action against those who commit an offence against a Dog Control Order

Entertainment and the arts

• Provision of entertainment and support of the arts

Flyposting and Graffiti

• Power to take enforcement action against those that flypost or graffiti

Gifts

• Power to accept

Highways

• Power to maintain footpaths and bridle-ways

• Power to light roads and public places

• Provision of litter bins

• Powers to provide parking places for bicycles and motor-cycles, and other vehicles

• Power to enter into agreement as to dedication and widening

• Power to provide roadside seats and shelters

• Consent of parish council required for ending maintenance of highway at public expense, or for stopping up or diversion of highway

• Power to complain to highway authority as to unlawful stopping up or obstruction of highway or unlawful encroachment on roadside wastes

• Power to provide traffic signs and other objects or devices warning of danger

• Power to plant trees and lay out grass verges etc. and to maintain them

Investments

• Power to participate in schemes of collective investment

Land

• Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of

• Power to accept gifts of land

Litter

• Provision of receptacles

• Power to take enforcement action against those that litter

Lotteries

• Powers to promote

Mortuaries and post mortem rooms

• Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms

Open spaces

• Power to acquire land and maintain

Parish documents

• Powers to direct as to their custody

Telecommunications facilities

• Power to pay public telecommunications operators any loss sustained providing telecommunication facilities

Public buildings and village hall

• Power to provide buildings for public meetings and assemblies

Public conveniences

• Power to provide

Sustainable communities

• Able to be represented on a panel of representatives to be consulted on proposals that would contribute to sustainable communities

Town and country planning

• Right to be notified of planning applications

Tourism

• Power to encourage visitors and provide conference and other facilities

Traffic calming

• Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes

Transport

• Powers in relation to car-sharing schemes, taxi fare concessions and information about transport

• Powers to make grants for bus services

War memorials

• Power to maintain, repair, protect and alter war memorials

Water supply

• Power to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water from them

Well-Being

• Power to well-being of the area (for eligible councils)