Potton Town Council is responsible for:

• Allotments
• Brook End Car Park
• Brook End Public Toilets
• Cemetery and burials
• Cemetery Chapel
• Christmas lights
• Community Centre
• Community grants
• Henry Smith Playing Fields
• Highways grass cutting
• Horse Brook*
• Mill Lane Pavilion
• Mill Lane Recreation Ground
• Planters and Wine Press
• Potton planning application responses
• St Mary’s Churchyard
• War Memorial

Areas of mixed responsibility:

• Street furniture
• Streetlights
• Trees

Bedfordshire Police responsibility:

• Anti-social behaviour
• Crime
• Dangerous dogs

Rivers:

• *Owners whose land includes riverbanks are responsible for clearing debris etc. from the part of the river as far as the centre line.
• *Horse Brook dredging is carried out by Potton Town Council.
• Other river dredging is carried out by the Internal Drainage Board or Environment Agency.

CBC is responsible for:

• Bush shelters
• Business rates
• Clearing fly tipping
• Conservation areas, listed and historic buildings
• Council tax
• Council housing (via Grand Union Housing)
• Dog bin provision and emptying
• Dog control enforcement
• Education including adult and further education
• Emergency planning and flood prevention
• Environmental health (including noise nuisance and pest control)
• Gritting
• Household waste and recycling centres
• Household waste and recycling collection (bin provision)
• Licensing (alcohol, taxis, public entertainment)
• Maintenance of pavements, roads and drainage
• On street parking and parking enforcement
• Parking restrictions, speed limits and road closures
• Planning application decisions
• Planning enforcement
• Public transport including school buses
• Rights of way, public footpaths, bridleways and cycleways
• Road signage
• Road sweeping and town centre litter picking
• Social Services, including care of children and the elderly
• Strategic planning
• Town centre litter bin emptying
• Tree protection orders
• Youth services