Power to provide and maintain allotments for cultivation

Parish and Town Councils can borrow money for up to a maximum of 25 years, provided official consent has been obtained.

Powers to provide and maintain and power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials.

Power to provide and maintain bus shelters.

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.

Duty to receive accounts of parochial charities.

Power to contribute to the costs of a churchyard in use.

Provision and maintenance of public clocks, on churches or elsewhere.

Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or educational objectives.

Power to provide and encourage the use of conference facilities.

Powers to spend money on various crime prevention measures.

Power to deal with ponds and ditches.

Provision of entertainment and support of the arts.

Power to repair and maintain public footpaths and bridleways.

Power to accept.

Provision of buildings for public meetings and functions, for indoor sports or physical reaction, or for the use of clubs or societies having recreationsal, social or athletic objects.

Power to:

• light roads and public places
• provide parking places for vehicles, bicycles and motorcycles
• enter into agreement as to dedication and widening 
• consent of parish council required for ending maintenance of highway at public expense, or for stopping up or diversion of highway
• provide traffic signs and other notices
• plant trees etc and to maintain roadside verges

Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of and to accept as gifts of land

Power to prosecute and defend any legal proceedings in the interests of the inhabitants. Power to take part in any public local inquiry.

Provision and maintenance of any footway lighting which lights roads or pavements provided the columns are not above specified heights.

Provision of litter-bins in streets and support for anti-litter campaigns.

Power to acquire land and maintain open spaces for the benefit of the public.

Provision and management of car and cycle parks.

Provision and maintenance of public parks and appropriate facilities.

Local councils have a right to be notified of any planning application affecting their area and to make comments which the planning authority must take into account.

Provision and maintenance of land for any kind of outdoor recreations, including boating pools.

Power to pay a public telecommunications operator for any loss sustained in providing post or telegraph office or telecommunications facilities.

Power to provide buildings for offices and for public meetings and assemblies.

Provision and maintenance of public lavatories.

Power to:

• acquire land for or to provide recreation grounds, public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them.
• provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps
• provide boating pools

Maintenance of public footpaths and bridleways.

Power to plant and maintain roadside verges.

Provision and maintenance of public seats.

Power to erect signs which warn of dangers or announce a place name, or indicate a bus stop.

Provision of indoor or outdoor swimming pool or bathing spaces.

Power to contribute to organisations encouraging tourism.

Power to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes.

Power to spend money on community transport schemes.

Power to maintain the village or town green.

Power to maintain , repair, protect and adapt war memorials.

In any situation not covered by one of the specific powers described above, a council may spend a limited amount of money on any purpose which, in its opionion, is of direct benefit to its area or to the inhabitants.