Hayle Town Council – Powers
What Can Local Councils Do?
| Subject | Detail |
|---|---|
| Allotments | Power to provide allotment gardens and duty to do so if demanded by local electors |
| Appointment of Officers | Power to appoint officers to discharge any function of the parish council as directed by it, nearly always a parish clerk and sometimes a neighbourhood manager, linesmen, village sweeper and other workers |
| Bathing Places and Wash Houses | Power to provide swimming baths, public bathing places and wash houses (including laundrettes) |
| Burial Grounds, Cemeteries and Crematoria | Power to provide such grounds or facilities |
| Bus Stops and Shelters | Power to provide bus stops and shelters |
| Bye Laws | Power to enact bye laws regarding pleasure grounds, cycle parks, baths and wash houses, open spaces and mortuaries. |
| Charities | Power to act as trustee of any parochial charities serving the parish and duty to receive the accounts of such charities |
| Clocks | Power to provide public clocks |
| Closed churchyards | Power to maintain closed churchyards |
| Commons | Power to regulate and maintain commons |
| Community Facilities | Power to provide such facilities for the use of local individuals, community groups and societies |
| Conference Facilities | Power to provide such facilities |
| Crime Prevention | Power to take steps to prevent crime, such as installing CCTV, requiring and paying for additional policing of the parish, installing burglar alarms and strong locks, and assisting neighbourhood watch schemes |
| Delivery of Local Authority Services | Right to act as an agent for the local district or borough, county or unitary authority and deliver nearly any services or amenities that would otherwise be provided for the parish by that local authority |
| Drainage | Power to deal with ponds and ditches |
| Education | Power to appoint representation to the governing body of any primary school serving the parish |
| Entertainment and the Arts | Power to provide entertainments and support the arts |
| Free Resource | Power to spend a limited amount of money as set by the Secretary of State on anything the parish council deems to be of benefit for the parish or its inhabitants |
| Gifts | Power to accept gifts on behalf of the parish |
| Highways | Power to maintain public footpaths, light roads and public places, provide litter bins, provide parking for vehicles, to acquire rights of way, provide traffic signs and other notices, and to give or withhold consent as to the stopping up or diversion of any public highway |
| Investments | Power to participate in schemes of collective investment |
| Land | Power to compulsory purchase land in certain circumstances and to establish new rights of way |
| Litter | Power to provide litter bins and similar facilities |
| Lotteries | Power to provide a lottery within the parish |
| National Parks | Right to have representation appointed onto the authority of any National Park the parish falls under |
| Open Spaces | Power to acquire land |
| Parish Property and Documents | Duty to manage and hold any property and public documents on behalf of the parish |
| Planning Applications | Right to be notified and consulted regarding any planning applications affecting the parish |
| Public Building and Village Halls | Power to provide such buildings for public use |
| Public Conveniences | Power to provide such facilities |
| Recreation | Power to acquire land for recreation purposes and to provide sports and leisure facilities |
| School Governors | Power to appoint a Primary School Governor |
| Telecommunication Facilities | Power to require and pay a telephone company to provide additional public telephones |
| Tourism | Power to take steps to encourage local tourism |
| Transport | Power to provide car sharing schemes, community mini buses and other transport for the benefit of the parish |
| Village Greens | Power to provide and duty to protect |
| War Memorials | Power to maintain war memorials |
| Water Supply | Power to utilise any clean source to provide facilities for obtaining water, such as a parish pump |
From a document produced by The National Association of Local Councils (http://www.nalc.gov.uk) (representing Parish, Town and Community Councils) 109 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LD.
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