District Council - Cherwell District
Council Collection of council tax and non-domestic rates
Environmental health
Housing
Leisure centres
Local plans and planning applications
Public conveniences
Waste collection
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Who Does What
County Council - Oxfordshire County Council
Birth, marriage and death registration
Education
Fire
Highways – including on-street parking, traffic
management,
and street lighting
Libraries
Recreation, arts and museums
Social care
Strategic planning
Trading standards
Transport
Waste disposal
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Parish Council - Wroxton & Balscote Parish Council
An amazing width of potential responsibility including:
Allotments
Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, Churchyards
and Crematoria
Bus Shelters
Public clocks can be provided and must be
maintained
Drainage – of ditches and ponds
Entertainment and the Arts
Footpaths
General Spending – parish councils can spend a limited amount of money on
anything they deem of benefit to the community that is not covered by the other
specific responsibilities described in this list
Highways – lighting, parking places, right to enter into discussions about new roads
and road widening, consent of parish council required for diversion or
discontinuation of highway, traffic signs and other notices, tree planting and verge
maintenance
Legal proceedings – power to prosecute and defend any legal proceedings in the
interests of the community, power to take part in any public enquiry
Litter - provision of litter-bins
Planning – parish councils must be notified of, and display for residents, any
planning applications for the area. Any comments submitted to the planning authority
by the parish council must be taken into account
Public conveniences – provision and maintenance of public toilets
Recreation – provision of recreation grounds,
Rights of Way – footpath and bridleway maintenance
Seats (public)
Signs – danger signs, place names and bus stops signs
Traffic Calming
War Memorial
And you thought they did nothing much!
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