Issue - meetings

This report asks the Executive Leader, Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods, to consider granting additional enforcement powers to the Neighbourhood Enforcement team and to consider changes to two existing Fixed Penalty Notice charges issued by the Neighbourhood Enforcement team. 

Resolved: That Option 1 be approved to:

·     Grant the power for issue of an FPN for low level fly-tipping with a penalty of £400, reduced to £240 for early repayment.

·     Grant the power to issue an FPN for advertising for sale two or more vehicles within 500m of each other or repairing vehicles on the public highway, with a penalty of £100, reduced to £75 for early repayment.

·     Grant the power to enforce the Micro-chipping of Dogs (England)  Regulations 2015 when related to incidents of anti-social behaviour.

·     Raise the FPN charge for dog fouling to £75.

·          Introduce an early repayment charge of £75 for breach of  Community Protection Notice.

Reason: Additional powers have been requested as a result of a review of offences commonly reported to the team against the enforcement powers available to address them. This is to ensure the team have all the necessary enforcement powers at their disposal.  The FPN for small scale fly tipping is a new power, made available to local authorities from May 2016.

The Executive Leader considered a report which asked him to grant additional enforcement powers to the Neighbourhood Enforcement team and also to consider changes to two existing Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) charges issued by the Neighbourhood Enforcement team.  These are the FPNs issued for dog fouling and for breach of Community Protection Notice (CPN).

Resolved: That Option 1 be approved to:

·        Grant the power for issue of an FPN for low level fly-tipping with a penalty of £400, reduced to £240 for early repayment.

·        Grant the power to issue an FPN for advertising for sale two or more vehicles within 500m of each other or repairing vehicles on the public highway, with a penalty of £100, reduced to £75 for early repayment.

·        Grant the power to enforce the Micro-chipping of Dogs (England)  Regulations 2015 when related to incidents of anti-social behaviour.

·        Raise the FPN charge for dog fouling to £75.

·        Introduce an early repayment charge of £75 for breach of  Community Protection Notice.

Reason:              Additional powers have been requested as a result of a review of offences commonly reported to the team against the enforcement powers available to address them. This is to ensure the team have all the necessary enforcement powers at their disposal.  The FPN for small scale flytipping is a new power, made available to local authorities from May 2016.