Overview
- Three councils opened public consultations on Wednesday asking residents whether to renew or amend dog-control Public Space Protection Orders that would run from October 2026 if approved.
- Chichester District Council is proposing to extend the duty to clean up after dogs to all publicly accessible land while keeping Forestry Commission land exempt and its survey closes on June 5.
- Bolton Council is consulting on retaining four existing PSPO types — exclusion, on-leads, on-leads-by-direction and fouling — with enforcement powers that include a £100 fixed penalty or a court fine up to £1,000 and its survey runs until July 13.
- Rhondda Cynon Taf is seeking views on a borough-wide PSPO plus an Aberdare Park rule to keep dogs on leads, with responses due July 20 and a cabinet report to follow; the council cites Keep Wales Tidy data showing fouling fell from 18% in 2017 to around 9–11% in recent surveys.
- PSPOs are three-year, time-limited local orders that typically require immediate removal of dog mess, carrying bags and obeying authorised officers, and councils say consultation results will determine whether to extend, tighten or drop measures and how enforcement will affect daily use of public spaces.