Responsibilities

Powers and duties

Duty to provide allotments.

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

Statutory Provisions

Small Holding & Allotments Act 1908, ss. 23, 26, and 42

Powers and duties

Power to provide public baths and washhouses

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1936, ss. 221, 222, 223 and 227

Powers and duties

• Power to acquire and maintain
• Power to provide
• Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials
• Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries

Statutory Provisions

• Open Spaces Act 1906, Ss 9 and 10
• Local Government Act 1972, s. 214
• Parish Councils and Burial Authorities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970, s. 1
• Local Government Act 1972, s. 214(6)

Powers and duties

Power to provide and maintain shelters

Statutory Provisions

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 1953, s. 4

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1875, s. 164

Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, s.57(7)

Public Health Act 1936, s.223

Open Spaces Act 1906, s.15

Public Health Act 1936, s.198

Powers and duties

Power to provide public clocks

Statutory Provisions

Parish Councils Act 1957, s.2

Powers and duties

Powers as to maintenance

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.215

Powers and duties

Powers in relation to providing common pasture

Statutory Provisions

Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908, s.34

Powers and duties

Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.144

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 s.19

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Local Government and Rating Act 1997, s.31

Police Act 1996, s.92

s17 Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (as amended)

Powers and duties

Power to deal with ponds and ditches

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1936, s.260

Powers and duties

Power to make a Dog Control Order

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

Statutory Provisions

Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005

Powers and duties

Provision of entertainment and support of the arts

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.145

Powers and duties

Power to take enforcement action against those that flypost or graffiti

Statutory Provisions

Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005

Powers and duties

Power to accept

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.139

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Highways Act 1980, ss.43,50

Parish Councils Act 1957, s.3;

Highways Act 1980, s.301

Litter Act 1983, ss.5,6

Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, ss.57,63

Highways Act 1980, ss.30,72

Parish Councils Act 1957, s.1

Highways Act 1980, ss.47,116

Highways Act 1980, s.130

Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, s.72

Highways Act 1980, s.96

Powers and duties

Power to participate in schemes of collective investment

Statutory Provisions

Trustee Investments Act 1961, s.11

Powers and duties

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

Power to accept gifts of land

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, ss.124, 126, 127

Local Government Act 1972, s.139

Powers and duties

Provision of receptacles

Power to take enforcement action against those that litter

Statutory Provisions

Litter Act 1983, ss.5,6

Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005

Powers and duties

Powers to promote

Statutory Provisions

Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976, s.7

Powers and duties

Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1936, s.198

Powers and duties

Power to acquire land and maintain

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1875, s.164 Open Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10

Powers and duties

Powers to direct as to their custody

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.226

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Telecommunications Act 1984, s.97

Powers and duties

Power to provide buildings for public meetings and assemblies

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.133

Powers and duties

Power to provide

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1936, s.87

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Sustainable Communities Act 2007

Powers and duties

Right to be notified of planning applications

Statutory Provisions

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Sched.1, para. 8

Powers and duties

Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes

Statutory Provisions

Highways Act 1980, s.274A

Powers and duties

Power to encourage visitors and provide conference and other facilities

Statutory Provisions

Local Government Act 1972, s.144

Powers and duties

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

Powers to make grants for bus services

Statutory Provisions

Local Government and Rating Act 1997, s.26, 28 and 29

Transport Act 1985, s.106A

Powers and duties

Power to maintain, repair, protect and alter war memorials

Statutory Provisions

War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act 1923, s.1; as extended by Local Government Act 1948, s.133

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

Public Health Act 1936, s.125

Powers and duties

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

Statutory Provisions

s2 and 4 of the Local Government Act 2000