Handforth Parish Council

Watch the viral video of the Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee recorded on Thursday 10th December 2020.

Handforth Parish Council address, website, phone number, email address and contact details. Handforth Parish Council is in Cheshire East.

Handforth Parish Council has a variety of powers and duties to help the parish council serve the local community. The remit of Handforth Parish Council includes, but isn’t limited to, the following:

• Allotments
• Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, Churchyards and Crematoria
• Bus Shelters
• Bye-laws – the power to make bye-laws concerning: baths and washhouses (swimming pools), cycle parks, mortuaries and pleasure grounds
• Clocks – public clocks; including their provision and maintenance
• Community Centres, Conference Centres, Halls, Public Buildings
• Drainage – of ditches and ponds
• Entertainment and the Arts
• Footpaths
• General Spending – parish councils can spend a limited amount of money on anything they deem of benefit to the community that is not covered by the other specific responsibilities described in this list
• Gifts – parish councils may accept gifts on behalf of the local community
• Highways – lighting, parking places, right to enter into discussions about new roads and road widening, consent of parish council required for diversion or discontinuation of highway, traffic signs and other notices, tree planting and verge maintenance
• Land – acquisition and sale of
• Legal proceedings – power to prosecute and defend any legal proceedings in the interests of the community, power to take part in any public enquiry
• Litter and Littering – provision of litter-bins and support for any anti-litter campaigns
• Planning – parish councils may be notified of any planning applications for the area
• Postal and Telecommunication Facilities – power to pay a public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing services in that area
• Public Toilets – provision and maintenance of public toilets
• Recreation – provision of recreation grounds, public walkways, pleasure grounds, open spaces, village greens, gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps and boating ponds
• Rights of Way – footpath and bridleway maintenance
• Seating – public seating for example; picnic benches
• Signs – danger signs, place names and bus stops signs
• Tourism – financial contributions to any local tourist organisations allowed
• Traffic Calming
• War Memorials
• Water Supply – power to utilise stream, well or spring water and to provide facilities for general use

For more information, please contact Handforth Parish Council.