Function | Powers & Duties | Examples |
Access land | Power to enforce bye laws made by another authority | As & when required |
Allotments | Duty to provide allotments. | Dunstall |
Power to improve and adapt land for allotments and to let grazing rights. | Three Trees & as and when required
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Baths and wash houses | Powers relating to provision of public baths, washhouses and bathing huts |
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Burial grounds, cemeteries and crematoria | Power to acquire and maintain | As & when required |
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 | As presently located |
Bye-laws | Powers to make bye-laws in regard to pleasure grounds Cycle parks Baths and washhouses Open spaces and burial grounds Mortuaries and post-mortem rooms Public conveniences | As & when required |
Clocks | Power to provide public clocks |
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Closed churchyards | Powers as to maintenance | As & when required |
Commons | Powers for parish council to contribute expense relating to scheme for the regulation and management of a common | The wash |
Common pastures | Powers in relation to providing common pasture |
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Conference facilities | Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities | Community Centre |
Community Centre | Powers to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or recreational objectives | Community Centre |
Crime Prevention | Powers to install and maintain equipment and establish and maintain a scheme for detection or prevention of crime |
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Drainage | Power to deal with ponds and ditches | As & when required |
Entertainment and the arts | Provision of entertainment and support of the arts | As & when required |
Financial assistance | Duty to require information |
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General powers | Power to incur expenditure for certain purpose | As & when required |
Gifts | Power to accept | As & if required |
Highways | Power to maintain footpaths and bridleways | As required by ECDC |
Power to light roads and public places | Provided as needed |
Provision of litter bins | Located around village |
Powers to provide parking places for bicycles and motor-cycles, and other vehicles | Recreation ground |
Power to enter into an agreement as to dedication and widening |
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Power to provide roadside seats and shelters | Located around village |
Consent of parish council required for ending maintenance of highway at public expense, or for stopping up or division of highway |
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Power to complain to highway authority as to unlawful stopping up or obstruction of highway or unlawful encroachment on roadside wastes | Around village |
Power to provide traffic signs and other objects or devices warning of danger | As & when required |
Power to plant trees and lay out grass verges etc. and to maintain them | As & when required |
| Recreation ground & other sites |
| As required |
Investments | Power to participate in schemes of collective investment |
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Land | Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of Power to accept gifts of land | As & when required |
Litter | Provision of receptacles | Provided at various locations but emptied by ECDC |
Lotteries | Powers to promote |
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Mortuaries and post mortem rooms | Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms |
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Open spaces | Power to acquire land and maintain | As & when required |
(e.g. top of recreation ground) |
Parish documents | Powers to direct as to their custody | As agreed |
Public buildings and village hall | Powers to provide public buildings for public meetings and assemblies | Community Centre |
Public conveniences | Powers relating to provision of public conveniences |
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Recreation | Power to acquire land for or to provide public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps Provision of boating pools | Recreation Ground |
Town and country planning | Right to be notified of planning applications | On Going |
Tourism | Power to encourage visitors and provide conference and other facilities | Community Centre Build |
Traffic calming | Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes |
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Transport | Powers in relation to car-sharing schemes, taxi fare concessions and information about transport |
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Powers to make grants for bus services |
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War memorials | Power to maintain, repair, protect and alter memorials | Pound Lane War Memorial |
Water supply | Power to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water from them | Dunstall Allotment bore hole |