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.

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


FUNCTION	POWERS AND DUTIES
Allotments	Powers to provide allotments. Duty to provide allotment gardens if demand unsatisfied
Baths and Washhouses	Power to provide public baths and washhouses
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
Bus Shelters	Power to provide and maintain shelters
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
Charities	Duties re: parochial charities
Clocks	Power to provide public clocks
Closed Churchyards	Powers as to maintenance
Commons and common pastures	Powers in relation to enclosure, as to regulation and management, and as to providing common pasture
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 objectives
Crime prevention	Powers to spend money on various crime prevention measures
Drainage	Power to deal with ponds and ditches
Entertainment and the arts	Provision of entertainment and support of the arts
Gifts	Power to accept
Highways	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
Investments Land	Duty of care Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of land Power to accept gifts of land
Litter	Provision of receptacles
Lotteries	Powers to promote
Mortuaries and post mortem rooms	Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms
Nuisances	Power to deal with offensive ditches
Open spaces	Power to acquire land and maintain
Parish property and documents	Powers to direct as to their custody
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
Public buildings and village hall	Power to provide and contribute to buildings for offices and for public meetings and assemblies
Public Conveniences	Power to provide
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
Town and Country planning	Right to be notified of planning applications
Tourism	Power to contribute to organisations encouraging tourism
Traffic Calming	Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes
Transport	Powers to spend money on community transport schemes
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 water therefrom

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