SEDGEMOOR District Council is looking to introduce a number of new Public Space Protection Orders which will see people receive £100 fines if caught drinking in public places, taking dogs into certain areas or even night fishing.
Consultation has been carried out and now a number of orders have been proposed relating to dog control, alcohol and legal high consumption, amplified music, night fishing, camping and direction to move on at various locations within Sedgemoor.
The orders give enforcement powers for Fixed Penalty Notices to Sedgemoor District Council, and prosecution for breaches of the orders.
Here is a list of the orders which will go before Sedgemoor District Council's executive on Wednesday, October 4:
New alcohol control areas:
a) All roads and public places within the boundaries of the following Wards or town council areas:
1. Bridgwater Victoria
2. Bridgwater Eastover
3. Bridgwater Wyndham
4. Bridgwater Dunwear
5. Bridgwater Hamp
6. Bridgwater Fairfax
7. Bridgwater Westover
No legal high/Psychoactive substance consumption areas:
• Blake Gardens (including underpass and other side of Broadway)
• Cranleigh Gardens
• Coronation Park
Direction to move on:
• Blake Gardens
• Binford Place
• Fore Street
• West Quay
• Bridgwater Town Bridge
• Bridgwater Docks
No amplified music
• Manor Gardens - Burnham
No night fishing or camping
• Browne’s pond
• Taunton road pond
Dogs will also be restricted from children's play areas
During the consultation, Woolavington Parish Council responded saying that a group of teenagers, aged around 14, had been 'invading the village hall disturbing groups who had booked it and refusing to leave'.
The council also said the group had been seen causing damage to vehicles, even jumping on a police car in one incident. Witnesses also said the teens had used foul language, broken windows with stones and drinking alcohol in public places.
Meanwhile in Burnham, one publican responded to the consultation by saying more needs to be done to stop anti-social behaviour from certain licensed establishments in the town.
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