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Environment and Leisure
- Provides the public with a Waste Collection, Disposal and Street Cleansing service
- Maintains & improves our Parks and Green spaces including tree management & horticulture improvement
- Protects the public re food hygiene in restaurants, takeaways etc including the checking of vessels at the port and dealing with pests
- Provides sports facilities and programmes
Transport
- Manages traffic on the City’s roads
- Inspects and repairs the highway
- Keeps streetlights and traffic signals working
- Provides public transport information and supports non-commercial bus services
- Plans future transport improvements for the City and bids to Government for the money
- Assesses flood risk and takes steps to prevent and protect against flooding
- Enforces parking restrictions and bus lanes
- Runs Council car parks
- Provides home to school transport for children most in need
- Grits the roads in winter
Neighbourhoods and Communities
- Oversees the Neighbourhood Partnerships programme: brings decisions about public services and funding into neighbourhoods and ensure that they are more influenced by local people
- Provides Voluntary & Community Sector Investment: provides targeted funding to organisations providing services to our diverse communities
- Run the City’s Libraries
- Supports Equalities & Community Cohesion: works to promote equality of access of all BCC services through the Public Sector Equality Duty and to promote positive relationships with in our diverse communities in all areas of the city.
Safer Bristol
Is split into three Service Areas:
- Enforcement and Regulatory Services
- Crime & Substance misuse
- Youth Offending Service
Our job is to make Bristol safer for all citizens and visitors. As a partnership, we are responsible for co-ordinating actions which tackle the adverse effects of Crime & Disorder on communities
Strategic Housing
Covers housing issues that affect all citizens, except council tenants. The services which we provide are:
- access to all supported housing, social housing and the waiting list, and to some private tenancies
- housing advice
- homelessness
- welfare rights and money advice
- support to vulnerable tenants
- improving conditions and management of private rented homes (including houses in multiple occupation)
- helping to make homes accessible by providing adaptations and aids
- getting empty private homes back into use
- We also work with developers to get more homes built and commission voluntary bodies to provide housing services
Museums
Museums, Galleries and Archives manage a range of heritage opportunities for the city. The object collection is composed of 2 million objects. There are 10 miles of archives in the archive collections stores. In total there are 9 museums, 1 Archives and Modern Records.
The services and products provided include:-
- Education sessions for 40,000 school pupils
- Visitor attractions for the city (M Shed and City Museum in particular) with over 750,000 visits
- Bespoke community engagement programmes linking collections, agencies and individuals
- Commercial activity (café, retail, corporate use etc)
- National and International partnerships with other museums
- Lever in funding for cultural activity in the city
- Film locations
- Partnerships with the Universities, FE organisations, businesses, Arts Council, Heritage Lottery Fund
Planning and Sustainable Development Planning & Sustainable Development covers:
- Strategic Planning
- City Design
- Development Services.
This involves
- setting the Framework for future development in the city
- determining Planning and Building Control applications
- ensuring that high quality sustainable development is delivered
Major Projects
- manages the major construction and development projects of the city council
- manages the activities of the city docks
