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arrow  Local highway and traffic authorities (these can be County Councils, Unitary Councils, Metropolitan Councils or London Borough Councils)
arrow  Local Traffic Authorities
arrow  District Councils
arrow  Unitary Councils
arrow  Parish and Town Councils
arrow  Local Housing Authorities

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County Councils

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Community leadership, including developing a Sustainable Community Strategy and a Local Development Framework
  • Keeping land clear of litter and refuse
  • Keeping its own space in good condition
  • Preventing crime and disorder
  • Tackling statutory nuisances
  • Maintaining trees and vegetation
  • Disposing of abandoned vehicles
  • Providing youth and children's services including out-reach youth work and ensuring 'Outcomes for Children' in the Children Act are achieved

Local highway and traffic authorities (these can be County Councils, Unitary Councils, Metropolitan Councils or London Borough Councils)

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Managing the road network and footways
  • including crossings
  • Traffic calming and traffic management
  • Soft landscaping within the highway boundaries
  • Running parking schemes
  • Co-ordinating street works
  • Maintaining roads and footways
  • Lighting highways
  • Accessibility planning
  • Enabling the quick
  • convenient and safe movement of traffic – including pedestrians

Local Traffic Authorities

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Enforcing penalties for illegal parking (where this has been decriminalised)

District Councils

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Community leadership, including developing a Sustainable Community Strategy and a Local Development Framework
  • Providing for play and leisure services, including play areas; also duty to cooperate with County Councils in implementing the Children Act 2004 section 10
  • Collecting household and commercial waste (if the occupier has requested it)
  • Keeping land clear of litter and refuse
  • Maintaining trees and vegetation
  • Investigating and removing abandoned vehicles
  • Tackling statutory nuisances
  • Granting planning permission and controlling development
  • Getting involved in designing new traffic-management schemes if invited by the highway authority


Unitary Councils

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Unitary councils combine the powers of district and county councils

Parish and Town Councils

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Issuing fixed-penalty notices under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act
  • Providing leisure areas and facilities for children and young people
  • Getting involved in designing new traffic-management schemes if invited by the highway authority

Local Housing Authorities

Legislation
*Advice and guidance
  • Monitoring of housing stock condition
  • Management and maintenance of LA-owned housing stock
  • Provision of assistance to vulnerable homeowners