Which Council Does What?

 

As well as Workington Town Council, the Town is also served by Cumberland Council.

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Workington Town Council

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• Allotments

• Christmas lights

• Cultural events in the town 

• Play areas – Ashfield Road South, Brewery House, Cusack Crescent, Garnet Crescent, Harrington Marina, Newlands Lane, Siddick, Vulcan Park, Walker Road, Wordsworth View in Salterbeck. 

• Remembrance Day

• Town Twinning with Selm and Val de Reuil

• Workington Nature Partnership

• Vulcan Park

 

Cumberland Council

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They have replaced: 

Allerdale Borough Council, Copeland Borough Council , Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council

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They deliver a range of services including:

• Adult learning

• Births, deaths and marriages

• Blue Badges

• Business rates

• Car parks

• Collecting bins and recycling

• Council Tax and benefits

• Dogs and fouling

• Electoral services

• Environmental health

• Fire and rescue

• Gypsies and travellers*

• Highways

• Homelessness prevention

• Housing

• Libraries and archives

• Licensing

• Maintaining roads, pavements and footpaths

• Nature Partnership

• Noise

• Parks and open spaces

• Parking, roads and transport

• Pest control

• Planning and building control

• School admissions

• School transport

• Schools and social care

• Social care

• Sport and leisure provision

• Street lights

• Trading standards

• Youth services

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Cumberland Council provide services to people who live in Allerdale, Carlisle and Copeland.

Website - cumberland.gov.uk

Telephone - 0300 373 3730

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*Please note that enquiries relating to gypsies or travellers, could be dealt by Cumberland Council depending on the nature of the enquiry. Queries may also require contact with a private landowner.