Re: [Talk-GB] Parish Councils needs

2019-10-26 Thread Martin Wynne
What happens in these parts is that the town/parish councils get the new responsibility and increase their precept to cover it. They then contract with the district council to provide the actual service. The net result is that residents see no change whatsoever, it is just a paper-shuffling

Re: [Talk-GB] Parish Councils needs

2019-10-26 Thread Mark Goodge
On 26/10/2019 09:23, Colin Smale wrote: On 2019-10-26 09:58, Edward Bainton wrote: (copying the list in again) Thank you. My understanding is that this parish council has had *all* street assets devolved to it: see here

Re: [Talk-GB] Parish Councils needs

2019-10-26 Thread Colin Smale
On 2019-10-26 09:58, Edward Bainton wrote: > (copying the list in again) > Thank you. My understanding is that this parish council has had *all* street > assets devolved to it: see here [1]. Where do you read that in the attached document? W.r.t. the public highway as an asset, paragraph 8

Re: [Talk-GB] Parish Councils needs

2019-10-26 Thread Edward Bainton
(copying the list in again) Thank you. My understanding is that this parish council has had *all* street assets devolved to it: see here . The answer to *length* is yes, Overpass

[Talk-GB] Parish Councils needs

2019-10-25 Thread Edward Bainton
A follow-up to my earlier, narrower query (subject line now changed) Can Overpass measure the length of roads? Eg, if a parish council wants to know how many miles of roads it has to sweep. (Assume filtering by road type is possible to exclude driveways, etc; assume all roads their