Brief guide to Breckland District Council

Breckland Council is responsible for delivering a wide range of services. Norfolk County Council is responsible for delivering strategic and, generally speaking, more costly services. The following information gives a flavour of the division of services between the two councils:

Breckland Council

• Waste Collection (including Recycling) (collection of domestic and commercial waste (delivered by Serco)
• Leisure Services (provision and maintenance of our Leisure Centres delivered by Parkwood)
• Housing (homelessness support etc)
• Elections (administration of European, Parliamentary and Local elections)
• Planning (dealing with applications for construction, alteration, demolition, conservation, developing a Local Plan etc) 
• Licensing (administration of licensing regime for sale of alcohol, taxis, animal boarding establishments etc)
• Environmental Health (enforcement of health hygiene and safety standards, pollution problems etc)
• Car Parks
• Tax collection (Council Tax & Non-Domestic Rates (delivered by the Anglia Revenues & Benefits Partnership (ARP))

Norfolk County Council

• Waste Disposal
• Social Services
• Education
• Highways
• Traffic
• Fire Service
• Libraries
• Youth Services

A full list of the services both councils offer can be found on the home pages of the relevant website

• Breckland Council
• Norfolk County Council (opens new window)

Not all services are delivered directly by the Council. The Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP) for example, is a group of five councils, who are working together to provide high-quality, shared revenue services to their residents. By working together through this partnership, the councils are reducing costs and providing a more efficient, effective service. The councils involved in the partnership are:

• Breckland Council
• East Cambridgeshire District Council
• Fenland District Council
• East Suffolk District Council
• West Suffolk District Council

The aim of the partnership is to run an efficient Council Tax and Housing Benefits service, while reducing administration costs to each partner council. By working together, and pooling our staff and resources, each council has achieved significant savings. The Anglia Revenues Partnership is now the largest revenues partnership in England. The Partnership continues to look for innovative ways of reducing costs whilst improving services, with its focus on excellent customer service.

Visit our Council Tax page for further information.