Grounds

Parks, green spaces, verges and industrial estates, floral displays, city centre planting beds, cemetery grounds, play areas and sports pitches.

Bereavement services

Funeral bookings, cremations, grave digging, records and exhumations, memorials.

Countryside management and allotments

Site management and habitat conservation, visitor management, education and school visits, friends groups, fundraising, maintenance and management of allotments.

Aboriculture

Tree surgery, remedial works, tree felling of street trees, parkland trees, woodlands and Talkin Tarn.

Area Maintenance

Street cleansing, litter and leaf clearance, chewing gum removal, fly tipping graffiti removal and city centre cleaning.

Age

Yes

School groups visit the allotments to continue to raise the profile of allotments amongst the young.

Play areas are designed for children at and under the age of 12.

Disability

Yes

Amending access gates to parks and open spaces to fit local needs of different degrees of mobility.

Step wise improvement in parks and open spaces has led to praise and more awards, such as the ‘Green Flag’.

New allotment sites will have access designed in.

Lack of budget for allotments make provision very difficult. There is also a risk of being accused ‘queue’ jumping.

Race

Yes

Allotments have a huge potential to foster good relations between different groups.

Gender/ Transgender

Yes

Amending access gates to fit local needs of families, pushchair friendly.

More females and families are coming forward for allotments

Lack of toilet  and other basic facilities are a real barrier to use

Sexual orientation

Yes

Uptake of allotments is open to all.

Religion or belief

Yes

Separate policy on Muslim graves in the cemetery.

Health inequalities

Yes

Rurality

Yes

Advice on design and safety of play areas (ROSPA) for rural parishes.

Requests for allotments are signposted to appropriate parishes

Human rights

No