Powers & Duties of the Parish Council
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Allotments
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Powers to provide allotments
Duty to provide allotment gardens if demand unsatisfied |
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Archives
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Power to make records held available to the public and to support local archives
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Baths and
Washhouses |
Power to provide public baths and washhouses
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Burial Grounds, Cemeteries and Crematoria
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Power to acquire and maintain
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Power to provide
Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials |
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Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries
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Bus Shelters
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Power to provide and maintain shelters
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Bye Laws
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Powers to make Bye Laws in regards to pleasure grounds
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Cycle Parks
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Baths and Washhouses
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Open Spaces and Burial Grounds
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Mortuaries and Post-Mortem Rooms
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Car Sharing Schemes
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Power to establish, maintain and assist others
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Charities
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Duty to receive accounts of parochial charities
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Clocks
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Power to provide public clocks
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Closed Churchyards
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Powers as to maintenance
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Commons and Common Pastures
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Powers in relation to inclosure, as to regulation and management, and as to providing common pasture
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Conference Facilities
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Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities
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Community Centres
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Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or educational objectives
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Crime Prevention
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Powers to spend money on various crime prevention measures
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Delegated Functions
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Power to assume a function delegated by another authority
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Power to ensure effective discharge of Council functions
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Power to employ persons to carry out Council functions
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Power to deal with ponds/ditches, agreements with landowners and with English Nature to manage Council-owned reserve land as a nature reserve
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Legal Proceedings
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Power to prosecute or defend
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Listed Buildings
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Power to contribute to the preservation of historic buildings
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Litter
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Provision of receptacles
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Lotteries
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Power to promote
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Nuisances
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Power to deal with offensive ditches
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Open Spaces
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Power to acquire land and maintain
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Parish Property and Records
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Powers to direct as to their custody
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Planning
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Right to be notified of and power to respond to planning applications
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Postal and telecommunications facilities
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Power to pay the Post Office, British Telecommunications or any other public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing post or telegraph office or telecommunications facilities
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Public Buildings and Village Halls
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Power to provide
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Public Conveniences
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Power to provide
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Public Enquiries
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Power to make representations at public enquiries
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Publicise Functions
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Powers to publicise council and local authority functions
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Raising of Finances
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Power to raise money through the precept
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Recreation
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Power to acquire land for or to provide recreation grounds, public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them
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Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields and holiday camps
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Provision of boating pools
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Taxi Fare Concessions
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Power to reimburse operator
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Tourism
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Power to contribute to organisations encouraging
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Transport and Traffic
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Power to conduct surveys to establish the transport needs of the community, the use of and need for roads and the management and control of traffic
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Power to collect and disseminate passenger transport information and make grants for bus services
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Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes
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Training
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Powers to train Councillors
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Transport
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Powers to spend money on community transport schemes
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War Memorials
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Power to maintain, repair and adapt war memorials
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Water Supply
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Powers to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water there from
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The Precept
The funding for parish councils is allocated by the district council and is taken from the area’s council tax; this is called an annual precept.
The income and expenditure for the next financial year are calculated in the form of estimates and this amount is added to the local council tax and then returned to the parishes in two half-yearly instalments.
Parish Councils can also apply for UK grants and funding and EU money.
