Parish Council Powers

• 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)