The following is an extract from the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) Governance Toolkit for Parish & Town Councils. This is not an exhaustive list, and not all functions apply to every Parish
Duty to provide allotments.
Power to improve and adapt land for allotments, and to let grazing rights
Power to provide public baths and washhouses
Power to acquire and maintain
Power to provide
Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials
Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries
Power to provide and maintain shelters
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
Power to provide public clocks
Powers as to maintenance
Powers in relation to providing common pasture
Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities
Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or recreational objectives
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
Power to deal with ponds and ditches
Power to make a Dog Control Order
Power to take enforcement action against those who commit an offence against a Dog Control Order
Provision of entertainment and support of the arts
Flyposting and Graffiti
Power to take enforcement action against those that flypost or graffiti
Power to accept
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
Power to participate in schemes of collective investment
Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of
Power to accept gifts of land
Provision of receptacles
Power to take enforcement action against those that litter
Powers to promote
Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms
Power to acquire land and maintain
Powers to direct as to their custody
Power to pay public telecommunications operators any loss sustained providing telecommunication facilities
Power to provide buildings for public meetings and assemblies
Power to provide
Able to be represented on a panel of representatives to be consulted on proposals that would contribute to sustainable communities
Right to be notified of planning applications
Power to encourage visitors and provide conference and other facilities
Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes
Powers in relation to car-sharing schemes, taxi fare concessions and information about transport
Powers to make grants for bus services
Power to maintain, repair, protect and alter war memorials
Power to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water from them
Power to well-being of the area (for eligible councils)