Allotments | Powers to provide allotments
Duty to provide allotment gardens if demand unsatisfied | Small Holdings Act 1908
ss23,26 & 42 |
Archives | Power to make records held available to the public and to support local archives | Local Government Records Act 1962
ss1 & 4 |
Baths and
Washouses | Power to provide public baths and washhouses | Public Health Act 1936
ss221, 222, 223 & 227 |
Burial Grounds, Cemeteries and Crematoria | Power to acquire and maintain | Open Spaces Act 1906 ss9 & 10
Local Government Act 1972 s214 |
| Power to provide
Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials | Parish Councils and Burial Authorities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970 s1 |
| Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries | Local Government Act 1972 s214 (6) |
Bus Shelters | Power to provide and maintain shelters | Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 s4 |
Bye Laws | Powers to make Bye Laws in regards to pleasure grounds | Public Health Act 1875 s164 |
| Cycle Parks | Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 s57 |
| Baths and Washhouses | Public Health Act 1936 s223 |
| Open Spaces and Burial Grounds | Open Spaces Act 1906 ss12 & 15 |
| Mortuaries and Post-Mortem Rooms | Public Health Act 1936 c198 |
Car Sharing Schemes | Power to establish, maintain and assist others | Local Government and Rating Act 1997 s26 |
Charities | Duty to receive accounts of parochial charities | Charities Act 1960 s32 |
Clocks | Power to provide public clocks | Parish Councils Act 1957 s2 |
Closed Churchyards | Powers as to maintenance | Local Government Act 1972 s215 |
Commons and Common Pastures | Powers in relation to inclosure, as to regulation and management, and as to providing common pasture | Inclosure Act 1845;
Local Government Act 1894 s8(4);
Smallholdings & Allotmentst Act 1908 s34;
Commons Act 1899 |
Conference Facilities | Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities | Local Government Act 1972 s144 |
Community Centres | Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or educational objectives | Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 s19 |
Crime Prevention | Powers to spend money on various crime prevention measures | Local Government and Rating Act 1997 s31 |
Delegated Functions | Power to assume a function delegated by another authority | Local Government Act 1972
ss101, 111 & 112 |
| Power to ensure effective discharge of Council functions | ditto |
| Power to employ persons to carry out Council functions | ditto |
| Power to deal with ponds/ditches, agreements with landowners and with English Nature to manage Council-owned reserve land as a nature reserve | Public Health Act 1936 s260 |
Legal Proceedings | Power to prosecute or defend | Local Government Act 1972 s222 |
Listed Buildings | Power to contribute to the preservation of historic buildings | Essex Act 1987 s48 |
Litter | Provision of receptacles | Litter Act 1983 ss5.6 |
Lotteries | Power to promote | Lotteries & Amusements Act 1976 s7 |
Nuisances | Power to deal with offensive ditches | Public Health Act 1936 s260 |
Open Spaces | Power to acquire land and maintain | Public Health Act 1975 s164; Open Spaces Act 1906 ss9 & 10; Commons Act 1899 |
Parish Property and Records | Powers to direct as to their custody | Local Government Act 1972 s226 |
Planning | Right to be notified of and power to respond to planning applications | Town & Country Planning Act 1990 s1 ss8;
Local Government Act 1972 s15 ss20 |
Postal and telecommunications facilities | Power to pay the Post Office, British Telecommunications or any other public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing post or telegraph office or telecommunications facilities | Post Office Cat 1953 s51;
Telecommunications Act 1984 s97 |
Public Buildings and Village Halls | Power to provide | Public Health Act 1936 s87 |
Public Conveniences | Power to provide | ditto |
Public Enquiries | Power to make representations at public enquiries | Local Government Act 1982 s222 |
Publicise Functions | Powers to publicise council and local authority functions | Local Government Act 1982 s142 |
Raising of Finances | Power to raise money through the precept | Local Government Act 1982 s150 |
Recreation | Power to acquire land for or to provide receation grounds, public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them | Public Health Act 1875 s164; Local Government Act 1972 s14 ss27; Public Health Acts Ammendents Acts 1890 s44; Open Spaces Act 1906 ss9 & 10; Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 s19; Commons Act 1899 |
| Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields and holiday camps | ditto |
| Provision of boating pools | Public Health Act 1961 s54 |
Taxi Fare Concessions | Power to reimburse operator | Local Government and Rating Act 1997 s28 |
Tourism | Power to contribute to organisations encouraging | Local Government Act 1972 s144 |
Transport and Traffic | Power to conduct surveys to establish the transport needs of the community, the use of and need for roads and the management and control of traffic | Local Government and Rating Act 1997 s29 |
| Power to collect and disseminate passenger transport information and make grants for bus services | Local Government and Rating Act 1997
s29 (2) 27 |
| Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes | Local Government and Rating Act 1997 s26 |
Training | Powers to train Councillors | Local Government Act 1972 s175 |
Transport | Powers to spend money on community transport schemes | Local Government and Rating Act 1997 ss26-29 |
War Memorials | Power to maintain, repair and adapt war memorials | War Memorials (Local Authorities Powers) Act 1923 s1; as extended by Local Government Act 1948 s123 |
Water Supply | Powers to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water there from | Public Health Act 1936 s125 |
