Which Council Does What - South Woodham Ferrers Town Council

What Council does What

There are three councils that are responsible for services in your area.

These are: South Woodham Ferrers Town Council (SWFTC), Essex County Council (ECC) and Chelmsford City Council (CCC)

The tick signifies that that council has responsibility for the service. Some services the Town Council may get involved on a consultive basis.

Please contact the adjoining Parish or Town Council or Chelmsford City Council to report issues outside of our town boundaries.

Responsibilities	ECC	CCC	SWFTC
Abandoned Vehicles	-		-
Advertising Signs	-		-
Allotments	-
Arts and Entertainment
Building Control	-		-
Bylaws	-
CCTV	-
Care for the Elderly		-	-
Cemetery & Crematorium - including municipal funerals	-
Champions Manor Hall Community Centre	-	-
Charitable Street Collections	-		-
Child Care		-	-
Civic Amenity Sites		-	-
Children's Play Areas	-
Collingwood School Pond	-	-
Compass Gardens	-		-
Concessionary Fares	-		-
Council Housing	-		-
Council Meetings
Council Tax - including benefits	-		-
Cycle Paths		-	-
Disabled parking (Blue Badges)		-	-
Dog Litter	-		-
Drains - highway drains		-	-
Drains - private sewers	-		-
Dropped Kerbs	-
Economic Development			-
Educational services including adult education		-
Electoral Register	-		-
Emergency Planning			-
Environmental Services/Health	-		-
Foliage Control	-
Footpaths (e.g. Scholars Walk)
Garden of Remembrance	-	-
Graffiti	-
Grass Cutting	-
Gritting & Salting		-
Highways		-	-
Homelessness	-		-
Housing	-		-
Lamp posts		-	-
Leisure centres/sports centres	-		-
Libraries - including mobile		-	-
Licensing (all forms of)	-		-
Litter within our Town boundary	-
Marsh Farm Country Park		-	-
Mayor	-
Millennium Place	-	-
Museums Service	-		-
Noise Nuisance & Control	-		-
Parking - car parks and residential permits - not private car parks	-		-
Parks including playing fields	-
Pavements		-	-
Planning
Pollution			-
Public Seats and Shelters
Public Transport		-	-
Recreational Facilities	-
Refuse Collection and recycling	-		-
Road signs - for traffic direction
Road signs - street nameplates	-		-
Roads		-	-
Roadside Verges & Roundabouts
Saltcoats Park	-		-
Social Services		-	-
Street Cleaning and sweeping	-
Street Lighting		-	-
Trading Standards		-	-
Traffic Management		-	-
Trees Preservation orders	-		-
Tourism			-
Village Hall Children's Play Area and Blue Cage	-	-
Waste Disposal and Management		-	-
Woodham Fenn	-	-

The Town Council may decide to use powers given to it, either on a regular basis, a one off or when it is decided that the law should apply in that particular point in time.

A list of most of the Acts of Law can be found via the link below