coldharbour parish council

The Coldharbour Parish council web site is available here: http://www.coldharbour-pc.gov.uk

The office is located at:
The Fairford Leys Centre,
Hampden Square, Fairford Leys
Aylesbury, Bucks, HP19 7HT

01296 422 800

Ever wondered what powers the Parish Council has? They can:

• provide allotments, baths and washhouses
• borrow money for statutory functions
• acquire and maintain burial grounds, cemeteries and crematoria provide and maintain bus shelters
• make byelaws for public walks and pleasure grounds, Cycle parks, Public bathing, Swimming Pools, Open Spaces, Mortuaries, Dogs & Dog Fouling
• appoint trustees of parochial charities
• provide public clocks
• protect unclaimed common land from unlawful interference and to manage common land and village greens under district council scheme
• Community Centres Power to provide and equip Community Centres and to encourage their use for social and educational purposes.
• install equipment, establish schemes and assist others in crime prevention
• deal with ditches and ponds
• appoint governors of primary schools
• provide for entertainment & promotion of the arts
• to erect flagpoles in highways
• incur expenditure not otherwise authorised on anything which in the council's opinion is in the interests of the area or part of it or all of or some of the inhabitants
• accept gifts
• maintain footpaths and bridleways
• prosecute for unlawful ploughing of a footpath or bridleway
• plant trees and maintain roadside verges
• acquire land by agreements, to appropriate land and dispose of land
• acquire land by compulsory purchase. To accept gifts of land. Power to obtain particulars of persons interested in land.
• provide lighting for roads and public places
• provide litter bins
• promote lotteries
• acquire and maintain open spaces
• provide parking places for motor vehicles and bicycles
• provide public conveniences
• adopt town status
• promote tourism
• contribute to cost of providing traffic calming measures
• establish car-sharing schemes and make grants for bus services

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