Crewkerne Town Council works alongside Somerset Council to provide a range of services for the community. A full list is below but this diagram helps illustrate which council has responsibility for assets and services:
Crewkerne Town Council
- Green spaces (recreation grounds and nature reserve)
- Sports fields
- Playgrounds and skate park
- Allotments
- Local Information Centre
- Community centres
- Swimming pool and fitness centre (managed by the charity Crewkerne Leisure Management)
- Tennis courts
- Cemetery
- Public toilets
- Litter collection (on Town Council land)
- War memorial and gardens
- Bowls Club
Somerset Council
- Business rate/council tax collection
- Yeovil Crematorium
- Community safety (anti-social behaviour, alcohol byelaws, noise abatements, dog and pest control, food safety, health and safety)
- Economic development
- Election administration
- Emergency planning
- Environmental Health
- Housing (council houses/housing associations, residential care, homelessness, traveller site maintenance)
- Licenses
- Markets
- Planning (applications and enforcement, conservation areas, tree preservation)
- Refuse and recycling collection
- Tourism development
- Education (nursery, schools, special needs and adult social services)
- Highways/transport (strategic planning, public transport, road maintenance, byways, street lighting – some jointly)
- Libraries
- Minerals and waste planning
- Refuse and recycling disposal (managed by Somerset Waste Partnership)
- Registration of births, marriages and deaths
- Social services (elderly, people with disabilities, children) and inspection
- Strategic/infrastructure planning
