name: Ashford Borough Council
notes: Ashford Borough Council is a local authority which provides services to residents in Ashford, Tenterden and a large network of surrounding villages.
  Its services include keeping the streets clean and collecting rubbish, renting out social housing (council houses and flats), providing leisure facilities and play areas and processing council tax and housing benefits.
  
  
  It deal with local planning applications for everything from a conservatory to major developments, issue licenses for taxis and licensed premises, look after parks and open spaces, and parking around its borough.
  
  
  Please note - services including primary and secondary education, roads, pavements, street lighting and social services are provided by  Kent County Council. This council has the functions of a district level council. Councils of this type are usually the primary planning authority and council tax billing authority and have responsibility for, among other things, refuse collection, housing, food safety inspections, dog wardens, parks and street cleaning as well as cemeteries and crematoria.