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POWERS & DUTIES...
The Town Council does not have major powers to carry out
policies but it is able to advise and put pressure on the
larger authorities in respect to the present and future
development and condition of the Stocksbridge area. The
Council is also able to organise, within the confines of its
budget, schemes to improve the social life of the Town. |
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Sheffield City Council has the statutory duty to deal with
housing, education, social services, recreation, cleansing,
planning, libraries, highways and the environment. Any
work/schemes carried out by the Town Council cannot impinge on
the statutory duties of the City Council as this is classed as
double rating.
Powers and Duties for Parish/Town Councils
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FUNCTION
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POWERS
AND DUTIES
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Allotments |
Powers to provide allotments. Duty to
provide allotment gardens if demand unsatisfied |
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Baths and Washhouses |
Power to provide public baths and washhouses
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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 |
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Bus Shelters |
Power to provide and maintain shelters
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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 |
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Charities |
Duties re: parochial charities
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Clocks |
Power to provide public clocks
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Closed Churchyards |
Powers as to maintenance
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Commons and common pastures |
Powers in relation to enclosure, as to
regulation and management, and as to providing common
pasture |
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Conference facilities |
Power to provide and encourage the use of
facilities
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Community centres |
Power to provide and equip buildings for use
of clubs having athletic, social or educational objectives |
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Crime prevention |
Powers to spend money on various crime
prevention measures
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Drainage |
Power to deal with ponds and ditches
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Entertainment and the arts |
Provision of entertainment and support of the
arts |
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Gifts |
Power to accept
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Highways
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Power to repair and maintain public footpaths
and bridle-ways
Power to light roads and public places
Provision of litter bins
Power to provide parking places for vehicles,
bicycles and motor-cycles
Power to enter into agreement as to
dedication and widening
Power to provide roadside seats and shelters,
and omnibus shelters
Power to complain to district councils as to
protection of rights of way and roadside wastes
Power to provide traffic signs and other
notices
Power to plant trees etc. and to maintain
roadside verges |
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Investments
Land |
Duty of care
Power to acquire by agreement, to
appropriate, to dispose of land
Power to accept gifts of land |
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Litter |
Provision of receptacles
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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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Nuisances |
Power to deal with offensive ditches
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Open spaces |
Power to acquire land and maintain
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Parish property and documents
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Powers to direct as to their custody
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Postal and telecommunication facilities |
Power to pay the Post Office, British
Telecommunications or any other public telecommunications
operator any loss sustained providing post or telegraph
office telecommunications facilities |
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Public buildings and village hall |
Power to provide and contribute to buildings
for offices and for public meetings and assemblies |
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Public Conveniences |
Power to provide
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Recreation |
Power to acquire land for or to provide
recreation grounds, public walks, pleasure grounds and open
spaces and to manage and control them
Power to provide gymnasia, playing fields,
holiday camps
Provision of boating pools |
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Town and Country planning |
Right to be notified of planning applications |
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Tourism |
Power to contribute to organisations
encouraging tourism
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Traffic Calming |
Powers to contribute financially to traffic
calming schemes
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Transport |
Powers to spend money on community transport
schemes
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War memorials |
Power to maintain, repair, protect and adapt
war memorials
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Water supply |
Power to utilise well, spring or stream and
to provide facilities for obtaining water therefrom |
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