Role and functions of Community Councils Sample Clauses

Role and functions of Community Councils. Role and Functions 1. The purpose of Community Councils is to promote the involvement of local people in the democratic process and to bring decision-making closer to local people. 2. Community Councils will be able to take decisions about local matters. At present the Council has delegated in part the following key areas: planning, licensing, environmental improvement, community safety, traffic management and appointment of Local Education Authority governors to local primary schools. 3. Community Councils will act as a formal consultation mechanism on Council wide policies and strategies. 4. Community Councils will be a focal point for discussion and consultation on matters that affect the area. 5. To determine those planning applications reserved to Community Councils. 6. To provide comments on the following proposals to the Planning Committee: • expenditure of funds over £100,000 secured through legal agreements under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. • the designation of conservation areas. • adoption of planning briefs to guide the development of particular sites within the area of the Community Council. • all major and strategic schemes prior to consideration by the Planning Committee, subject to the consultation deadlines. 7. To determine applications for the grant, renewal, transfer, revocation or variation of annual public entertainments or night café licences, reserved to Community Councils. Role and Functions 8. To determine any application for consent to provide striptease or hypnotism or like entertainment, the grant of new amusement arcade / prize bingo permits, fax establishment licences or applications made in respect of occasional licenses over 28 days in any 12 month period. 9. To consider regular reports on environmental management issues, including street cleaning, refuse collection, abandoned vehicles and leisure centres. 10. To participate in contract reviews and be able to suggest service improvements and identify local priority issues. 11. To recommend local and major contract variations, to the Strategic Director of Environment & Leisure and the Executive respectively for consideration. 12. To appoint ▇▇▇▇ Members to serve on warden schemes steering groups. 13. To approve the mechanism and allocation of funds to local Environmental Improvement Programme (EIP) schemes. 14. To recommend bids for the funding of EIP schemes of a strategic nature, as part of an open bidding process, to the Executive. 15. To oversee...
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