| Function |
Powers and
Duties |
| Allotments |
Powers to provide
allotments. Duty to provide allotment gardens if demand satisfied |
| 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 byelaws in
regard to pleasure grounds. Cycle parks, baths and washhouses, open space and
burial grounds, mortuaries and post-mortem rooms. |
| Charities |
Duty to receive accounts
of parochial charities. |
| Clocks |
Power to provide public
clocks. |
| Closed
churchyards |
Powers as to
maintenance. |
| Commons and
common pastures |
Powers in relation to
enclosure, as to regulation and management, and as 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 educational
objectives. |
| Crime
prevention |
Powers to spend money on
various crime prevention measures. |
| Drainage |
Power to deal with ponds
and ditches. |
| Education |
Right to appoint school
governors. |
| Entertainment and the arts |
Provision of
entertainment and support of the arts. |
| Gifts |
Power to
accept. |
| Highways |
Power to repair and
maintain public footpaths and bridleways. Power to light roads and public
places. Provision of litterbins. Power to provide parking places for vehicles,
bicycles and motorcycles. Power to enter into agreement as to dedication and
widening. Power to provide roadside seats and shelters and bus 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
district council as to protection of rights of way and roadside wastes. Power
to provide traffic signs and other notices. Power to plant trees etc. and to
maintain roadside verges. |
| 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. |
| Lotteries |
Powers to
promote. |
| Mortuaries
and post-mortem rooms |
Power to provide
mortuaries and post-mortem rooms. |
| Nuisances |
Power to deal with
offensive ditches |
| Open
spaces |
Power to acquire land
and maintain. |
| Parish
property and documents |
Powers to
direct as to their custody. |
| Postal and
telecommunications facilities |
Power to
pay the Post Office, British Telecommunications or any other public
telecommunications operator for any loss sustained in providing post or
telegraph office or telecommunications facilities. |
| Public
buildings and village halls |
Power to
provide buildings for offices and for public meetings and
assemblies. |
| Public
conveniences |
Power to
provide. |
| Recreation |
Power to
acquire land for or to provide recreation grounds, public walks, pleasure
grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them. Power to provide
gymnasiums, playing fields, and holiday camps. Provision of boating
pools. |
| Town and
County Planning |
Right to be
notified of planning applications. |
| Tourism |
Power to
contribute to organisations encouraging tourism. |
| Traffic
calming |
Powers to contribute
financially to traffic calming schemes. |
| Transport |
Powers to spend money on
community transport schemes. |
| War
memorials |
Power to maintain,
repair, protect and adapt war memorials. |
| Water
supply |
Power to utilise well,
spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water
therefrom. |