PSPO Ashfield District Council 2021
Ashfield District Council’s Public Spaces Protection Order has been extended and varied as of 1 October 2021 and will remain in place for the next 3 years.
What is covered by the PSPO?
The following rules apply and anyone breaching them is liable to a fine or a direction to move on.
Alcohol
If a person who is drinking alcohol is behaving or likely to behave in a manner to cause nuisance and annoyance an officer can request the person surrender their alcohol or pour it away. Failing to do so allows an officer to take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
There are 8 designated areas in Ashfield where this applies and are highlighted within the Current PSPO Order.
Approved Variation: To incorporate additional locations as detailed and specified in the Order and Schedule 1. These are the same locations as urinating and direction to move on.
Urinating or defecating in a designated area
If a person urinates or defecates within the specified area an officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
There are 8 designated areas in Ashfield where this applies and are highlighted within the Current PSPO Order.
Approved Variation: To incorporate additional locations as detailed and specified in the Order and Schedule 1. These are the same additions for alcohol/urinating and direction to move on.
Dog fouling in specified area
If a person allows a dog they are responsible for at that time to foul and walks away without picking up an officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
This relates to the entire district with the exception of forestry commission land as highlighted within Schedule 2 and accompanying map as drafted.
Failing to produce device or other means of removing dog faeces on demand
If a person does not produce a device or other means for removing dog faeces upon request an officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
This relates to the entire district with the exception of forestry commission land as highlighted within Schedule 2 and accompanying map as drafted.
Dogs on lead by direction
If a person does not comply with placing their dog on a lead at the request of an authorised officer, the officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
This relates to the entire district with the exception of forestry commission land as highlighted within Schedule 2 and accompanying map as drafted.
Dogs - specified maximum amount
No more than 6 dogs can be taken out at any one time by one person or an officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
This relates to the entire district with the exception of Forestry Commission land as highlighted within Schedule 2 and accompanying map as drafted.
Dogs - exclusion in specified area
Dogs are excluded from specific locations within Ashfield including enclosed children’s play areas and enclosed sports facilities on parks such as tennis courts and bowling greens.
We can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court if the person responsible for the dog allows it to enter the exclusion areas as highlighted within Schedule 3 of the order and accompanying map as drafted.
Approved Variation: Additional dog exclusion areas have been included see schedule 3.
Dogs - on leads in specified areas
If a person does not comply with placing their dog on a lead on: each and every length of road (including pavements, footways and verges, and the pedestrianised areas and cemeteries and churchyards (detailed as per Schedule 4 and accompanying map) an officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
Direction to move on
If a person is engaging in behaviour that is anti-social or creating a nuisance or annoyance and fails to move on when asked to do so, an officer can take action by means of issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or provide evidence for legal action through the court.
There are 8 designated areas in Ashfield where this applies and are highlighted within the Current PSPO Order.
Approved Variation: To incorporate Direction to Move On.
Junction 27 (M1)
The Order relates to the area surrounding Junction 27 of the M1 Motorway and A611 with specific roads/carriageways subject to restriction.
The Order prohibits car cruise events where motor vehicles congregate and any of the following activities occur:
- Motor vehicles are driven at excessive speed or accelerated aggressively
- Motor vehicles are raced against one another
- Stunts are performed in motor vehicles
- Music is played on equipment installed in a motor vehicle which is audible outside the vehicle; or
- Motor vehicles are driven in convoy, whether side by side or in single file
- Sounding horns (so as to cause public nuisance)
- Congregating to spectate the above activities.
So as to cause any of the following:
- Excessive noise
- Danger to other road users
- A risk of injury to any person
- A risk of damage to property
- Causing obstruction on a public highway, or publicly accessible place, or private land, whether moving or stationary.
Prohibition includes participating in a car cruise event either as a driver, or passenger of a vehicle within the area designated in the Public Spaces Protection Order.
A person who is guilty of an offence under this Order shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
Closure of the strip of land between Bentinck Street and Welbeck Street, Sutton in Ashfield
Due to ongoing anti-social behaviour in the vicinity of the strip of land situated between Bentinck and Welbeck Street, and following public consultation with local residents. The Council has restricted the right of way and closed this alleyway to members of the public. This will take effect as of 1st October 2021. This means that members of the public are prohibited from accessing this area (strip of land) and should they access the area they will be in breach of the Council’s PSPO.
If a person is found to be in breach, this can result in them being issued with a Penalty Notice of £100 and/or risk of being prosecution for breach of these provisions in pursuant of the PSPO 2021 laid out by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
Map and location of the said strip of land and surrounding information is available in the order and reports attached to this page.