| Function | Powers & Duties | Statutory Provisions |
| Allotments |
Duty to provide allotments. Power
to improve and adapt land for
allotments, and to let grazing
rights |
Small Holding & Allotments Act
1908, ss. 23, 26, and 42
|
Baths and
washhouses |
Power to provide public baths and
washhouses |
Public Health Act 1936, ss. 221,
222, 223 and 227
|
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 |
Open Spaces Act 1906, Ss 9 and
10; Local Government Act 1972,
s. 214; Parish Councils and Burial
Authorities (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act 1970, s. 1
Local Government Act 1972,
s. 214(6)
|
| Bus shelters |
Power to provide and maintain
shelters |
Local Government (Miscellaneous
Provision) Act 1953, s. 4
|
| Bye-laws |
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 |
Public Health Act 1875, s. 164
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984,
s.57(7)
Public Health Act 1936, s.223
Open Spaces Act 1906, s.15
Public Health Act 1936, s.198
|
| Clocks |
Power to provide public clocks |
Parish Councils Act 1957, s.2 |
| Closed churchyards |
Powers as to maintenance |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.215
|
| Common pastures |
Powers in relation to providing
common pasture |
Smallholdings and Allotments Act
1908, s.34
|
| Conference facilities |
Power to provide and encourage
the use of facilities |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.144
|
| Community centres |
Power to provide and equip
buildings for use of clubs having
athletic, social or recreational
objectives |
Local Government (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act 1976 s.19
|
| Crime prevention |
Powers to install and maintain
equipment and establish and
maintain a scheme for detection
or prevention of crime |
Local Government and Rating Act
1997, s.31
|
| Drainage |
Power to deal with ponds
and ditches |
Public Health Act 1936, s.260
|
Entertainment and
the arts |
Provision of entertainment and
support of the arts |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.145
|
| Gifts |
Power to accept |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.139
|
| Highways |
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 |
Highways Act 1980, ss.43,50
Parish Councils Act 1957, s.3;
Highways Act 1980, s.301
Litter Act 1983, ss.5,6
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984,
ss.57,63
Highways Act 1980, ss.30,72
Parish Councils Act 1957, s.1
Highways Act 1980, ss.47,116
Highways Act 1980, s.130
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984,
s.72
Highways Act 1980, s.96
|
| Investments |
Power to participate in schemes of
collective investment |
Trustee Investments Act 1961,
s.11
|
| Land |
Power to acquire by agreement, to
appropriate, to dispose of
Power to accept gifts of land |
Local Government Act 1972,
ss.124, 126, 127
Local Government Act 1972,
s.139
|
| Litter |
Provision of receptacles |
Litter Act 1983, ss.5,6 |
| Lotteries |
Powers to promote |
Lotteries and Amusements Act
1976, s.7
|
Mortuaries and post
mortem rooms |
Powers to provide mortuaries and
post mortem rooms |
Public Health Act 1936, s.198
|
| Open spaces |
Power to acquire land and maintain |
Public Health Act 1875, s.164 Open
Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10
|
| Parish documents |
Powers to direct as to their custody |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.226
|
Telecommunications
facilities |
Power to pay public
telecommunications operators any
loss sustained providing
telecommunication facilities |
Telecommunications Act 1984,
s.97
|
Public buildings and
village hall |
Power to provide buildings for
public meetings and assemblies |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.133
|
| Public conveniences |
Power to provide |
Public Health Act 1936, s.87 |
| 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 |
(see Local Government Act 1972,
Sched.14 para.27)
Public Health Act 1875, s.164
Public Health Acts Amendment
Act 1890 s.44
Open Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10
Local Government (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act 1976, s.19
Public Health Act 1961, s.54
|
Town and country
planning |
Right to be notified of planning
applications |
Town and Country Planning Act
1990, Sched.1, para. 8
|
| Tourism |
Power to encourage visitors and
provide conference and other
facilities |
Local Government Act 1972,
s.144
|
| Traffic calming |
Powers to contribute financially to
traffic calming schemes |
Highways Act 1980, s.274A
|
| Transport |
Powers in relation to car-sharing
schemes, taxi fare concessions and
information about transport
Powers to make grants for bus
services |
Local Government and Rating Act
1997, s.26, 28 and 29
Transport Act 1985, s.106A
|
| War memorials |
Power to maintain, repair, protect
and alter war memorials |
War Memorials (Local Authorities’
Powers) Act 1923, s.1; as
extended by Local Government
Act 1948, s.133
|
| Water supply |
Power to utilise well, spring or
stream and to provide facilities for
obtaining water from them |
Public Health Act 1936, s.125
|
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