Registration | Public Facilities

Area	Responsibility/Interest	County	District/Bor'h	Parish/Town	Other Agency	County/District Council has statutory responsibilities?
Registration	Registration of births, deaths, marriages (1)	*			Environment Agency	*
Public Facilities	cemeteries & crematoria (2)	*	*	*
Public Facilities	Provision & management of museums/art galleries (3)	*	*
Public Facilities	Provision & Management of Swimming pools (4)		*	*	Project Integra
Public Facilities	Provision & management of recreation grounds and playing fields			*	Landowner
Public Facilities	Management of open spaces and village greens (5	*	*			*
Public Facilities	Allocation of Allotments			*
Public Facilities	Provision and maintenance of public seats / benches		*	*
Public Facilities	Public Conveniences		*	*
Public Facilities	Village Halls and Community Centres (6)			*
Public Facilities	War memorials (7)		*	*
Public Facilities	Community buses			*	Landowner

Comments

1. Citizenship ceremonies -  a statutory function.  Other functions (discretionary) including baby-naming, renewal of vows, remembrance services.

2. District council maintains 'closed' churchyards; district & parish councils administer the cemeteries they own, according to their regulations.

3. Principally an HCC responsibility through County Museums Service; may be a joint one.  Some district councils have own service.  There are arrangements between county/district councils for partnerships with voluntary organisations.

4. Most run by district councils  

5. HCC is the registration authority - maintains the registers for public inspection, handles applications for amendments to the registers, particularly to register new village greens.

6. Hall might be owned by district council or other organisation; often run by voluntary organisation; County Council supports.

7. Church usually responsible for memorials within their grounds; local community responsible for any memorial it paid for by public subscription.