Contact Us

Address:

The Guildhall
Frankwell Quay
Shrewsbury
SY3 8HQ

Telephone:

01743 281000

email:

Responsibilities of Borough and County Councils

This list summarises which council provides which service.

You should refer to the A to Z on each website for more detailed listing.

Services	Borough	County
Adult education		x
Air Quality	x
Allotments	x
Building Control	x
Business Rates Collection	x
Car parks	x
Care and protection of children		x
Care for people with disabilities		x
Cemeteries	x
Community Safety	x
Concessionary travel fares	x	x
Council Tax Collection	x
Countryside	x	x
Crematorium	x
Cycle routes		x
Economic Development	x	x
Education		x
Elderly people (care)		x
Elections	x
Electoral registration	x
Environmental health	x
Emergency planning	x	x
Floral Displays and Gardens	x
Food Safety	x
Garden Waste Collection and Composting	x
Highway maintenance		x
Housing and Housing Benefit	x
Improving road safety		x
Leisure centres and pools	x
Libraries and archives		x
Licensing	x
Listed Buildings	x
Local planning	x
Maintenance of Public Rights of Way		x
Meals on Wheels		x
Minerals and quarries		x
Museums and arts	x	x
Nursery schools		x
Parks and open spaces	x
Planning - Development control	x	x
Playgrounds	x
Public Toilets	x
Public Transport		x
Recycling Centres and Green Boxes	x
Refuse collection	x
Registration of births deaths and marriages		x
School transport		x
Schools		x
Street cleaning and litter	x
Street lighting		x
Theatre	x
Trading Standards and Consumer Protection		x
Traffic calming		x
Tourism	x