FOI request (FOIR-410274527)

Dog waste

Requested Wed 23 March 2022
Responded  Wed 13 April 2022

Response

1. 

2021 - 152

2020 - 288

2019 - 623

2.

2019 - 4 Fixed Penalty Notices issued

2020 - 3 Fixed Penalty Notices issued

2021 - Nil Notices issued.

The FPNs were issued under the Public Space Protection Order (No .1). which lapsed on 12 June 2020. It lapsed because of the pandemic and the different work we were doing at that time.

The dog fouling act mentioned here has also been repealed. In 2005 The Clean Neighbourhoods Act was enacted which included Dog Control Orders. Dog Control Orders were repealed and replaced with the Public Space Protection Orders in 2017.

3. Hastings Borough Council stopped supplying free dog bags in 2018.

4. None, as we have no orders (PSPO) in place to enforce this.