Council services and responsibilities
Runnymede Borough Council forms part of a two-tier local government system.
As a Borough Council we are responsible for
- abandoned vehicles
- Building Control and dangerous buildings or structures
- business rate collections
- Council Tax collections
- Environmental Health and inspection of food premises
- housing
- Land Charges
- Licensing
- Local elections
- Planning applications and Planning Enforcement and Planning Policy
- Off-street car parks and parking enforcement
- Recycling
- Rubbish collection
We also provide the following additional services to improve the lives of our residents and communities
- administrative support for the Runnymede Business Partnership
- allotments
- arboriculture
- centres for older people
- community alarms
- community halls
- community meals (Meals on Wheels)
- community safety and CCTV open space surveillance
- community transport
- garden waste collection (chargeable)
- graffiti removal
- leisure development
- museum
- parks and open spaces
- cemeteries
On behalf of Surrey County Council we cut grass on highway verges, maintain highway shrubs and also enforce on-street parking enforcement.
Surrey County Council is responsible for
- education
- fire and public safety
- lead local flood risk authority
- libraries
- social care
- Trading Standards
- traffic and highways (including highways maintenance and improvement, street lighting, trees and shrubbery overhanging highways and winter maintenance)
- transport
Further information on local authority structures can be found in the document below
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