A list of the Council authorities responsible for specific service areas
Boston Borough Council
• Advice to the Planning Inspectorate on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
• Air Quality Monitoring
• Allotments
• Animal welfare
• Benefit Fraud
• Benefits Support
• Building Regulations applications (plan checking/ site inspection)
• Building Regulations enforcement/ pre-application advice
• Bulky waste collections
• Business Rate collection
• Business Support
• Car Boot and Table Top Sales licensing
• Car Parks
• CCTV
• Cemetery and Crematorium
• Communications with residents
• Community safety
• Conservation and listed buildings
• Consider Planning Applications
• Consultation
• Contaminated Land
• Council Tax collection
• Council Tax Support
• Cultural Services
• Dangerous structures and demolition notices
• Democratic Services
• Disabled Facility Grants
• Dual Hackney Carriage & Private Hire Drivers licensing
• Economic Development projects
• Elections and electoral registration
• Emergency planning
• Ensuring housing standards in the rented sector
• Environmental Crime Enforcement for witnessed offences relating to Dog Fouling, Littering and Fly tipping
• Environmental Permits
• Events, inc May Fair
• Fly-tipping removal on public land
• Food and water sampling and analysis
• Food safety inspections
• Freedom of Information
• Grass cutting on Borough Council-owned land
• Ground maintenance in Borough Council-owned parks
• Guildhall Museum
• Hackney Carriage Vehicles licensing
• Homelessness support/prevention
• Houses of Multiple Occupation
• Housing Benefits
• Infectious disease investigations
• Land and Foul Drainage
• Land Charges
• Leisure Centres (Geoff Moulder Leisure Complex)
• Local Plan and associated evidence base
• Manage Council-owned trees and tree protection
• Mayoral Engagements
• Market (Boston only)
• Minor adaptations to homes
• Missed bin collections
• Monitoring Section 106 agreements
• Neighbourhood Planning
• Nuisance – odour/smoke/noise/pests (not treatment),
• Planning Appeals
• Planning Enforcement
• Play areas (council-owned), including maintenance and inspections
• Private Hire Operators licensing
• Private Hire Vehicles licensing
• Private sector housing enforcement
• Private sector housing grants
• Provide Housing Advice
• Provide street litter bins
• Provide pre-application advice
• Provide public toilets
• Public Health Burials
• Refuse, Recycling and Green Waste collections
• Removal of illegal encampments on Council-owned land
• Removing abandoned vehicles
• Scrap metal
• Scrutiny of Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire
• Street cleaning on public highway
• Street naming and numbering
• Tourism promotion/development
• Waste Enforcement
• Working with partners on flood risk issues
Tel: 01205 314200 – Web: www.mybostonuk.com
Lincolnshire County Council
• Adults and Children Social Care
• Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
• Bus Pass Issue
• Children’s Centre
• Disability Support Services
• Disabled Parking (blue badges)
• Emergency Planning
• Fire and Rescue
• Footway lighting
• Fostering and Adoption
• Heritage sites
• Highways and Transportation – including gritting, maintaining, street and traffic lighting, traffic signs, pot holes and road markings
• Libraries – including mobile libraries
• On-Street Parking Enforcement
• Public Health
• School Admissions, Free School Meals and School Transport (for all schools)
• Street lighting
• Trading Standards
• Waste and Recycling Disposal – including household waste sites
• Wellbeing Service
Tel: 01522 552222 – Web: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk
Example of BTAC/Parish Council services offered
• Charity Street Collection License
• Grants
• Hanging Baskets and Planters
• Neighbourhood Development Plan
• Play Areas
• Remembrance Gardens
• Street Furniture
• War Memorials