FUNCTIONS

 POWERS AND DUTIES

Allotments

Power to provide allotments. Duty to provide allotment gardens if demand unsatisfied.

Baths and washhouses

Power to provide public baths, washhouses and bathing places.

Burial grounds, 
cemeteries and crematoria

Power to provide.

Bus shelters

Power to provide and maintain shelters.

By-laws 

Power to make by-laws in regard to pleasure grounds, cycle parks, baths and washhouses, open spaces etc.   

Charities 

Duty to receive accounts of parochial charities.

Clocks

Power to provide public clocks.

Closed Churchyards

Power as to maintenance.

Commons and common pastures 

Powers in relation to enclosure and as to regulation and management.

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 objects.

Drainage 

Power to deal with ponds and ditches.

Litter 

Provision of receptacles.

Lotteries 

Power to promote.

Nuisances 

Power to deal with offensive ditches.

Open spaces 

Power to acquire land.

Parish property and documents 

Management and custody.

Postal and Telecommunications facilities.

Power to pay the Post Office,  British Telecommunications or any other public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing additional 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 recreation grounds, public walks and open spaces and to manage and control them.  Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps. Provision of boating pools.

Town and Country Planning 

Rights to be notified of planning applications.

Tourism 

Power to encourage.

Village greens 

Power to provide.

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 there from.

Entertainment and the arts

Provision of entertainment and the support of the arts.

Gifts

Power to accept.

Highways

Power to repair and maintain footpaths and bridleways. Power to light roads and public places. Power to erect flagpoles and other structures for displaying decorations.
Provision of litter bins.
Power to provide parking places for bicycles, motor­cycles and other vehicles.
Power to acquire rights of way. Power to provide roadside seats and shelters, and omnibus shelters. Consent of parish council required for stopping up or diversion of highway or for removal of the requirement of maintenance at public expense. Power to complain to district council as to maintenance of highways or protection of rights of way and roadside wastes. Power to prosecute in respect of ploughing of footpaths and bridleways. Power to provide traffic signs and other notices.  Power as to roadside verges.    

Investments

Power to participate in schemes of collective investment.

Land

Acquisition. Rights of way overland (other than highways)