Purpose

To review the current PSPO’s prior to
consideration by Cabinet.

Content

(a)       That Public Space
Protection Orders (PSPO’s) be extended to cover dog control
and alcohol control in Flintshire. 

 

The dog control PSPO will require a person in charge
of a dog to:

(i)        Remove their dogs
waste from all public places within Flintshire.

(ii)        Prohibit taking, or
permitting the dog to enter or remain in:

- all areas within school grounds,

- the playing areas of marked
sports pitches

- the playing areas of formal
recreational areas including but not exclusively bowling greens and
tennis courts

- fenced enclosed
children’s play areas.

- the fenced footpath around
The Rosie, Wepre Park, Connah’s Quay as marked on
Map 1 (Appendix 3)

- Mold Memorial Park,
Maes Bodlonfa, Mold as marked on Map 2 (Appendix 4)

(iii)       Keep their dogs on a lead
within a cemetery.

(iv)     
Have appropriate means on their person, at all times, to pick up
their dogs’ waste from all public places in
Flintshire.

(v)       Put their dog on a lead,
when directed by an authorised officer, if the dog is loose and
causing a nuisance or annoyance to any other person, bird, or
animal

 

The alcohol control PSPO will impose the following
prohibitions and/or requirements in public spaces in Flintshire, at
all times

 

(i)        Any person who,
without reasonable excuse, continues drinking

intoxicating liquor in a public area within the
Restricted Area

when asked to stop by an authorised officer, commits
an offence.

(ii)        Any person who
whilst in a public area within the Restricted Area, without
reasonable excuse, fails to surrender any intoxicating liquor in
their possession when asked to do so by an authorised officer,
commits an offence.

(iii).      An authorised officer who
imposes a requirement under Article

4(a) and/or 4(b) must tell the person that failing,
without reasonable excuse, to comply with the prohibition and/or
requirement is an offence.

 

 

(b)       For information, but
subject to final Cabinet determination, the agreed Public Space
Protection Orders covering dog control and alcohol control
commences on 29October 2023 following a
notice period and publicity of the upcoming order.