Local Government Levels
Below is a general overview of responsibilities across local government and links to their contact details (you can find contact details for other public services here):
Crewkerne Town Council | South Somerset District Council | Somerset County Council |
Allotments (joint) | Allotments (joint) | Archives and records |
Benches (joint) | Benches (joint) | Councillor Conduct (County level) |
Bins (locations in public areas, not emptying logistics) | Business rate/council tax collection | Economic development (joint) |
Bus shelters | Cemetries and Crematoria | Education (nursery, schools, special needs and adult) |
Cemeteries and closed churchyards | Community safety (anti-social behaviour, alcohol byelaws, noise abatements, dog and pest control, food safety, health and safety) | Emergency planning (joint) |
Clocks | Councillor Conduct (District and Town levels) | Grants (voluntary bodies) |
Grants (local voluntary bodies) | Economic development (joint) | Highways/Transport (strategic planning, public transport, road maintenance, byways, street lighting – some joint) |
Licences (consulted for opinion only) | Election administration | Historic buildings |
Markets (joint) | Emergency planning (joint) | Libraries |
Memorials | Grants (voluntary bodies, help with lottery applications) | Minerals and waste planning |
Museums and arts (joint) | Highways/Transport (unclassified roads, car parks, byways, road safety, street lighting, street naming, local transport plans – some joint) | Museums and arts (joint) |
Open spaces and play areas (joint) | Housing (council houses/housing assosciations, residential care, homelessness, traveller site maintainance) | Open spaces and play areas (joint) |
Planning (consulted for opinion only) | Liscences | Refuse and Recycling disposal |
Street Lights (joint) | Markets (joint) | Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths |
Tourism development (joint) | Museums and arts (joint) | Social Services (elderly, people with disabilities, children) and inspection |
Town Halls | Open spaces and leisure centres (joint) | Strategic/infrastructure planning |
Planning (applications and enforcement, conservation areas, tree preservation) | Tourism development (joint) | |
Public toilets | Trading Standards | |
Refuse and Recycling collection | Traveller site location | |
Tourism development (joint) |