Meeting documents

The Cabinet considered a report regarding the introduction of Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), a new power designed to reduce anti-social behaviour (ASB). It was proposed that the current designated dog fouling areas be kept as they were whilst further consultation took place towards introduction of a new PSPO. It was also proposed that the current Designated Public Place Orders (DPPOs) on alcohol restrictions be replaced by the introduction of one new PSPO, which will also include restrictions on people and highways and vehicle misuse in a number of car parks.

 

The report was considered by the Services Overview Committee and Healthy Communities Policy Advisory Group. It was recommended that the PSPO covers all car parks to avoid ASB displacement.

 

The police had requested the PSPO to help address nuisance from ASB and further evidence on the roll out of the PSPO to include all car parks would be collated following the consultation. Other measures could also be used to help reduce ASB, for example, by building in measures, such as barriers, CCTV and controls on vehicle speed during the design of public spaces e.g. public car parks, which the police had also recommended.

 

It was suggested that the implications of applying dog control measures across the whole district needed to be looked at, for example, to take into account equality issues and the potential need for spaces where owners could walk their pets.

 

RESOLVED -

 

1.         That the current designated dog fouling areas are kept as they currently are for now while further consultation takes place towards the introduction of a new Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO).

 

2.         That further evidence be gathered to support the introduction of a PSPO, including the following dog control measures across the whole district, whereby the following actions mean an offence is committed:

 

A)    If a person in charge of a dog fails to clean up its faeces.

B)    To fail to put a dog on a lead when directed to do so by an authorised officer.

C)    To allow a dog into enclosed children's playgrounds.

 

3.         To agree implementation of a new PSPO to include alcohol restrictions which provide Police with powers to require any person to stop drinking and surrender alcohol if they are causing or likely to cause anti-social behaviour (ASB) in the following areas:

 

A)    Chesham Cemetery

B)    Chesham Town Centre High Street and Meades Water Garden

C)    Amersham-on-the-Hill and Old Amersham

D)   Seer Green

E)     Land at Roundwood Road and Station Forecourt, Amersham

 

4.         To agree that the new PSPO will include restrictions, as detailed in the report, on people and misuse of highways and vehicles in the following car parks, and that the introduction of the PSPO restrictions to all car parks in the district be subject to consultation:

 

A)    Multi-Storey Carpark on King George V Road, Amersham

B)    Library Carpark on King George V Road, Amersham

C)    Chiltern Pools Carpark on Chiltern Avenue, Amersham

D)   Sycamore Road Carpark, Rickmansworth Road, Amersham

E)     Watermeadow Carpark, Weylands Ct, Germain Street, Chesham

F)     Staryard Carpark, Chesham

G)    Link Road & Buryfields Carpark, Link Road, Great Missenden

H)   Co-op Carpark, High Street, Prestwood

 

5.         To set the Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) fine at £100.

 

6.         That authority be delegated to the Head of Healthy Communities in conjunction with the Head of Legal and Democratic Services to publish appropriate PSPOs as a result of evidence being obtained and that if any amendments to any PSPOs are necessary that these be made in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Healthy Communities.