Local Council Services

Mid Beds District Council provides a wide variety of services to the communities that make up Mid Bedfordshire from its main office at Priory House, Chicksands and at the Citizone Points of Presence in Woburn Street, Ampthill and Saffron Road, Biggleswade. Services are organised into six divisions, which co-ordinate, plan and supervise the wide variety of services which we provide daily to the 121,300 people who live throughout the almost two hundred square miles of the District.

Mid Beds provides planning, refuse and litter collection, council tax collection, environmental health (including Pest Control), building control, leisure, licensing, housing benefits, recycling facilities, economic development, and many other services.

Who Does What?

Not all "council" services are provided by Mid Beds District Council - Bedfordshire County Council and the various Town and Parish Councils around the district also providing a wide range of services. Below is a key as to which Local Authority provides which service.

Mid Beds District Council:

• local planning and building control
• council tax collection
• council tax benefit and housing benefit
• business rates collection
• recycling
• refuse collection
• street cleaning
• environmental health (including pest control)
• leisure, sports and arts services
• community development and
  community safety (including CCTV)
• economic development
• licensing (including liquor and taxis)
• land charges

Bedfordshire County Council:

• education
• social Services
• highways and footpaths
• libraries
• trading standards
• street lighting
• strategic planning

Link: www.bedfordshire.gov.uk

Town and Parish Councils:

provide varying levels of the following services:

• parks and open spaces
• recreation grounds
• street lighting
• public halls (often independently managed)
• car parking
• grass cutting
• markets
• allotments

Link: for contact details of Town and Parish Councils