The main role of the Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish Council is to provide & manage certain local services within the Parish, using a variety of funding sources, including the precept.
Those local services include:
- Litter Bins
- Recreation Ground
- Grass Cutting of Public Areas
- Public Seats & Bus Shelters
- Notice Boards at Florence Portal entrance and Manor Cottages
- Street Lighting
- Garage area and Green beside Manor Cottages
- Lady Rose Hall and car park
- Rough car park and lay by off laverstoke Lane
- Pavilion
- Practice tennis court and wall
- Kick-about-court
- Roadside Verges
- Interaction with Local Businesses (including Bombay Sapphire)
- Campaigning for Better Local Services (including public transport etc)
- Interaction with the Millennium Green Trust, Black Arrows Archery Club and Whitchurch Tennis Club
- Liaison with Hampshire County Council who manage the Rights of Way in the county and ensuring them obstruction free, in a fit condition, clear of surface vegetation. They maintain signposting, way marking, some bridges and authorise stiles and gates
- Liaison with Hampshire County Council Highways who are responsible for streetlighting, speed signage, road maintenance (pot holes, flooding), grit bins, paving, flytipping, trees/hedges on Highway land. For further info or to log a fault go to HCC Highways
The Laverstoke & Freefolk Parish Council also has the right to be notified and consulted on certain other issues:
- Local Plans
- Local Planning Applications
- Byelaws
- Public Transportation Plans
- Heavy Lorry Route Proposals
- Sewerage Schemes