Agenda item

Report from the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment.

Recommendations:

1. To carry out a consultation in relation to the future Town Centre and Clifton Park Public Spaces Protection Order

2. To carry out a consultation in relation to the future Borough wide Public Spaces Protection Order specifically dealing with dog fouling and control.

Consideration was given to the report which proposed that a consultation be undertaken with regard to the Town Centre and Clifton Park Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) and the Boroughwide Dog Fouling PSPO. The current PSPO’s were renewed in January 2024 for a period of 12 months. This period of designation was intentionally shorter than the three-year maximum term that was prescribed in the applicable statute in order to allow the service to review enforcement capacity associated with any new PSPO’s.

The proposed consultation would seek to establish stakeholder views in relation to the PSPO’s and to gauge support for future designations. Views would be sought concurrently about the conditions that might be included within such Orders. It was proposed that the formal consultation would commence on 18 September 2024 and run until 30 October 2024.

Consultees would include amongst others, South Yorkshire Police, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, Ward Members, key stakeholders, voluntary, community organisations, businesses and the public.

The options available to the Council at the end of the consultation would be to extend the Orders, vary their requirements or to discharge them. Whilst each of these outcomes were possible, the consultation responses would ultimately steer future direction.

Appendix 4 to the report set out the data from South Yorkshire Police on Anti-Social Behaviour in the Town Centre between 2022-2024. Appendix 5 set out data from Environmental Health relating to dog fouling and dog starting complaints from 2018-2024.

The report was considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board (OSMB), who advised that the recommendations be supported. Councillor Steele advised that Members were happy that they and Parish Councils would be consulted. Concerns were raised around dog fouling, but OSMB did not suggest any additional recommendations.

Resolved:

1. That Cabinet approve the proposals to carry out a consultation in relation to the future Town Centre and Clifton Park Public Spaces Protection Order.
   
   
2. That Cabinet approve the proposals to carry out a consultation in relation to the future Borough wide Public Spaces Protection Order specifically dealing with dog fouling and control.