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Car Parking Badges: Blue Car Badge Scheme of parking concessions for Disabled and Blind People
Car Parks: Information regarding the parking scheme, contract and residents parking permits
Caravan Club site: The Caravan Club site at Burrs Country Park can accomodate 80 pitches for caravans and tents.
Caravan Site Licence: How to apply for a Caravan Site Licence
Care Alarms: Care-Link provides 24 Hour monitoring, base alarm unit, waterproof button, maintenance.
Care Assessment: You can find out if we can help you by contacting your local area social services office
Carer Support: Practical and emotional support, advice and advocacy to carers
Carers Services: The service is for all Adult Carers, over 18 years of age, for any client category.
Castle Leisure Centre: Details on sports and sessions available
Catering: Bury Venues are proud of our long established tradition of providing excellent facilities, good quality food, a high standard of service from friendly and efficient staff and value for money packages.
CCTV: Closed circuit television (cctv) has become an increasingly popular deterrent against crime for many years and is a common site in shopping centres and car parks throughout the country.
Cemeteries: There are 3 Council owned cemeteries within the Borough
Cemetery Regulations: Download a copy of the Cemetery Regulations, which include Hours of Interments and procedures, fees and charges, maintenance of graves.
Census: The Census is a count of all people and households in the UK and is normally undertaken every ten years
Central Booking: Bury Venues are proud of our long established tradition of providing excellent facilities, good quality food, a high standard of service from friendly and efficient staff and value for money packages.
Cess Pools: A cess pool is a large enclosed tank which takes all the foul water from a property.
Chambers of Commerce: 'Greater Manchester Chamber is the largest chamber of commerce in the UK. They are a prominent voice in the North West business community and deliver high quality help to all the businesses that are in our membership'.
Chesham Local Nature Reserve: Chesham LNR is comprised of a group of six woodlands and grazing meadows on the edge of Bury. Environmental education is an important part of the LNR Project. Schools and community groups can contact the Local Nature Reserves officer for more information.
Childminding: Childminders look after children on domestic premises in the childminder's own home
Citizen's Advice Bureaux: The Citizens' Advice Bureau provides independent advice on a wide range of topics, including benefits, housing, employment and debt, consumer and legal issues.
Civic Halls: Bury Venues are proud of our long established tradition of providing excellent facilities, good quality food, a high standard of service from friendly and efficient staff and value for money packages.
Clarence Park: Clarence Park, Walmersley Road, Bury is the largest urban park in the Borough covering an area of 20.02 hectares and is bordered by Chesham Woods.
Clean Air Act: The Clean Air Act 1993 prohibits the emission of smoke from a chimney either domestic or industrial.
Climate Change Strategy: The Climate Change Strategy for Bury includes information on international and national committments to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and how Bury is working towards local reduction in emissions
Clinical Waste: Information regarding the disposal of clinical waste
Close Park: Close Park, Dumers Lane, Radcliffe, is the biggest park in Radcliffe, covering an area of 11.19 hectares.
Club certificate: A club certificate is required for a premises to which public access is restricted and where alcohol is supplied other than for profit
ClubBURY: Clubs that show good practice in club development can now benefit from clubBURY rewards.
Clubs (sports): Information on finding good sports clubs
Clubs and Societies: contact details for a wide range of local clubs and societies
Coaching and Management (sports): In order to develop sporting opportunity across Bury, it is important that coaches are trained to a good standard
Cockroaches: The Pest Control Service can help you with problems associated with rats, mice, insects, birds and other pests
Commercial Properties: A list of available land and property To Let or For Sale by the Council
Commercial Waste: A highly competitive commercial waste collection service
Committees: We have a new Internet service which allows you to view the agendas, most of the reports and minutes of the Executive of the Council and other Committee meetings.
Community Economic Development: Community Economic Development (CED) is often seen as an effective means of combating social exclusion by retaining income within the area, generating jobs, enhancing skills and providing goods and services
Community Grants: The services of E'GRAB are specifically designed to bring to you up to date information on new funding opportunities as soon as they become known
Community Safety: Supports the agencies of the BurySafe Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) in their work to reduce crime, disorder and drug abuse
Community Services: Information on the community care and assessment services
Community, People and Living: Bury MBC provides and supports a number of services for people of all ages in local communities
Complaints: You can use the online form to make any comments, suggestions or complaints about council services or the way you have been treated
Complaints: Customer Services Unit provide effective customer services in a polite and professional manner that are easily and equally accessible to all users.
Composting: Home composting is probably the single most effective action anyone can take to help protect our planet
Concessionary Fares: Information about Travel Concessions
Coney Green Sports Centre: Details of sports and sessions available
Conservation: Explanation of current conservation projects and explaination of how the historic environment is protected
Conservation areas: Designated conservation areas in Bury
Consumer advice: When something goes wrong with the goods that you have bought or when the services are sub-standard, knowing your rights as a consumer can put you in a stronger position and help you resolve the problem to your advantage.
Consumer complaints: Top tips on how to make a complaint and to download sample complaint letters
Consumer protection: For advice on your rights by law when buying goods and services, package holidays and distance selling. Also in this section you can download guidance leaflets on a range of subjects.
Contaminated Land: Generally land contamination is caused by previous industrial or commercial usage, for example gasworks, fuel stations, mining, landfilling. Land can also become contaminated due to its proximity to contaminated areas.
Controlled Parking Zones: A controlled parking scheme is a street or area where parking is organised in order to help residents park their vehicles.
Cookery Help: A wide range of courses to meet everyones needs from healthy eating to entertaining made easy
Cooling Tower Regulations: All premises where cooling towers and evaporative condensers are situated must register with the local authority under The Notification of Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers Regulations 1992.
Coronation Park: Coronation Park, New Road, Radcliffe, is a park covering an area of 3.53 hectares.
Coroner: Reporting a death to a Coroner
Council Housing: Provides useful housing information and links on council housing
Council Housing Repairs: Council property repairs, maintenance and improvements
Council Land and Property: The Council's Land Records consist of a computerised system of large scale ordnance survey maps showing the boundaries of all land owned by the Council.
Council Performance: The Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) is the Government's way of measuring council performance.
Council Policies and Plans: Corporate Plans / Structures -Aims and Objectives 2004 - 2007
Council Tax: Information regarding council tax
Council Tax Benefits: Government benefits are available to help you pay your Council Tax bills
Council Tenancies: A general guide for introductory tenants
Council Vacancies: Jobs in Bury MBC
Councillors: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council has 51 councillors who meet as a full council about every seven weeks.
Country Parks: Bury has 2 countryside parks - Burrs Country Park and Prestwich Forest Park
Country Walks: Trails around Bury
Countryside: Find out about Bury's countryside
Countryside and nature conservation: Environmental projects in Bury
Countryside Management: The countryside section of the Parks and Countryside Service cares for Bury's local countryside through practical action.
Countryside Rangers: The Countryside Ranger Service as it stands today was first established in 1997 and is based at Burrs Country Park, Woodhill Road, Bury
Credit advice: For advice on your rights when buying on credit
Credit Licence: If a business offers credit or lends money to consumers, or allows customers time to pay for goods and services, it must be licensed with the Consumer Credit Licensing Bureau of the Office of Fair Trading under the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
Cremation: Cremation, funeral and bereavement service
Crime and Disorder: Working together to achieve safer communities
Crossing Patrol: School crossing patrols ensure the travel to and from school is as safe as possible for local children.
Customer Contact Centre: A team of advisors are trained to answer a variety of queries relating to council services and they aim to resolve 80% of all queries on first point of contact. The lines are open 8.45am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday. We respond to call relating to Waste Management, Pest Control, Parks and Countryside, Environmental Services and Highways.
Cycle Lanes: Cycle Routes are principally indicated by signs and markings. They may be either on the carriageway, on footways either shared with or segregated from pedestrians, or specially designated cycle paths.
Cycle Routes: The Council publishes a free leaflet describing two half-day rides around the Borough. It is available from libraries or Bury Tourist Information Centre.
Cycling: Ideas on places to ride, events to join or how to make your voice heard
Cycling (Training): Cycle training is offered to all primary schools for pupils aged 10 years and over and refresher training sessions for adults.