logging in or signing up cnea 376 BAWare Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 32 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: November 20, 2007 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 – the new powers and tools available: Local Environmental Quality Team - Defra local.environment@defra.gsi.gov.uk The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 – the new powers and tools availableClean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act: Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act Introduced in House of Commons - 7th December 2004 and received Royal Assent on 7 April 2005 Commencement of measures – Summer and Autumn 2005 and April 2006 Full guidance published Funding: Funding Powers not duties Enhanced enforcement opportunity and cost recovery – new fixed penalty options Magistrates/LAs better able to work together Fixed Penalty Notices (Fines) : Fixed Penalty Notices (Fines) -Allows local authorities the flexibility to set their own rates for some offences -Gives parish and community councils the power to issue fixed penalties for litter, graffiti, fly-posting and dog offencesFixed penalties: key principles: Fixed penalties: key principles Should only be issued where there is adequate evidence to support prosecution Non payment should be pursued in the courts Fixed penalties: key principles: Fixed penalties: key principles Need to be part of a wider enforcement strategy Ensure public support, particularly when introducing fixed penalties for the first time New powers – Problem Alleys : New powers – Problem Alleys New, more flexible, gating powers Can respond to anti-social behaviour as well as crime Greater focus on views of residents. New powers – vehicles: New powers – vehicles Instant removal Swifter disposal of removed cars Powers apply to all roads New offences – Selling or repairing vehicles on a road New powers – litter: New powers – litter An offence everywhere Litter clearing notices (replacing Litter Control Areas) Changes to Street Litter Control Notices (including FPNs) Powers to control free literature distribution Chewing Gum and Smoking material confirmed as litterNew powers – fly-posting and graffiti: New powers – fly-posting and graffiti Extension of removal notice powers to fly-posting Improved spray-paint powers Defence for fly-posting changed Cost recovery for removal of fly-postingWaste – Unlawful Deposit: -Removes the defence of acting under employer’s instructions and increases penalties -Enables local authorities and the EA to recover investigation and clear-up costs -Extends provisions on clear up to the landowner in occupier absence Waste – Unlawful DepositWaste – Fixed Penalties: -For businesses that fail to produce waste transfer notes -For waste carriers that fail to produce their registration details or evidence they do not need to be registered -For waste left out on the streets Waste – Fixed PenaltiesWaste – Transportation: Introduces a more effective system for stop, search and seizure of vehicles Introduces a new provision covering the waste duty of care and registration of waste carriers Waste – TransportationNew powers – dogs: New powers – dogs Byelaw system replaced by dog control orders: Dog fouling Ban on dogs Dogs on a lead Number of dogs Local authorities will be solely responsible for stray dogsOther New Powers: Other New Powers Noise – Alarm Notification Areas Extension of Noise Act 1996 to licensed premises Statutory Nuisance – Insects - Artificial light - Shopping Trolleys – Cost recovery Enforcement is only part of the answer: Enforcement is only part of the answer Education Campaigning Communicating Slide17: Campaigns today - www.encams.orgFurther information: Further information www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2005/20050016.htm www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/index.htm E-mail local.environment@defra.gsi.gov.uk You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
cnea 376 BAWare Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 32 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: November 20, 2007 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 – the new powers and tools available: Local Environmental Quality Team - Defra local.environment@defra.gsi.gov.uk The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 – the new powers and tools availableClean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act: Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act Introduced in House of Commons - 7th December 2004 and received Royal Assent on 7 April 2005 Commencement of measures – Summer and Autumn 2005 and April 2006 Full guidance published Funding: Funding Powers not duties Enhanced enforcement opportunity and cost recovery – new fixed penalty options Magistrates/LAs better able to work together Fixed Penalty Notices (Fines) : Fixed Penalty Notices (Fines) -Allows local authorities the flexibility to set their own rates for some offences -Gives parish and community councils the power to issue fixed penalties for litter, graffiti, fly-posting and dog offencesFixed penalties: key principles: Fixed penalties: key principles Should only be issued where there is adequate evidence to support prosecution Non payment should be pursued in the courts Fixed penalties: key principles: Fixed penalties: key principles Need to be part of a wider enforcement strategy Ensure public support, particularly when introducing fixed penalties for the first time New powers – Problem Alleys : New powers – Problem Alleys New, more flexible, gating powers Can respond to anti-social behaviour as well as crime Greater focus on views of residents. New powers – vehicles: New powers – vehicles Instant removal Swifter disposal of removed cars Powers apply to all roads New offences – Selling or repairing vehicles on a road New powers – litter: New powers – litter An offence everywhere Litter clearing notices (replacing Litter Control Areas) Changes to Street Litter Control Notices (including FPNs) Powers to control free literature distribution Chewing Gum and Smoking material confirmed as litterNew powers – fly-posting and graffiti: New powers – fly-posting and graffiti Extension of removal notice powers to fly-posting Improved spray-paint powers Defence for fly-posting changed Cost recovery for removal of fly-postingWaste – Unlawful Deposit: -Removes the defence of acting under employer’s instructions and increases penalties -Enables local authorities and the EA to recover investigation and clear-up costs -Extends provisions on clear up to the landowner in occupier absence Waste – Unlawful DepositWaste – Fixed Penalties: -For businesses that fail to produce waste transfer notes -For waste carriers that fail to produce their registration details or evidence they do not need to be registered -For waste left out on the streets Waste – Fixed PenaltiesWaste – Transportation: Introduces a more effective system for stop, search and seizure of vehicles Introduces a new provision covering the waste duty of care and registration of waste carriers Waste – TransportationNew powers – dogs: New powers – dogs Byelaw system replaced by dog control orders: Dog fouling Ban on dogs Dogs on a lead Number of dogs Local authorities will be solely responsible for stray dogsOther New Powers: Other New Powers Noise – Alarm Notification Areas Extension of Noise Act 1996 to licensed premises Statutory Nuisance – Insects - Artificial light - Shopping Trolleys – Cost recovery Enforcement is only part of the answer: Enforcement is only part of the answer Education Campaigning Communicating Slide17: Campaigns today - www.encams.orgFurther information: Further information www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2005/20050016.htm www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/index.htm E-mail local.environment@defra.gsi.gov.uk