Litter Statistics in Tendring

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Dear Tendring District Council,

I would like to request the following information on: 1) Litter under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, 2) Public Space Protection Orders under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 and 3) Community Protection Notices under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

1. Data for the last 5 years on the following:
a) Under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1990, s87 how many individuals committed the offence of leaving litter?
b) Under the EPA s88 how many fixed penalty notices for leaving litter were issued?
c) How many of these fines were paid and/or how many fines remain unpaid?
d) How many challenges have been made against payment of fines?
e) How many litter abatement notices were issued under the EPA s92?
f) How many street litter control notices were issued under EPA ss93-94?
g) How many litter clearance notices were issued under the EPA s92A?

2. Data from the time of commencement of Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs):
a) Under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (ASBCPA) 2014, s59 how many PSPOs have been made?
b) Under the ASBCPA, s67 how many individuals have failed to comply with the order?
c) How many fixed penalty notices were issued for PSPOs under the ASBCPA, s68?
d) Under the ASBCPA, s61 how many further various have been made to orders in effect?
e) Under the ASBCPA, s66 how many times has the validity of the orders been challenged?
f) How many of these fines were paid and/or how many fines remain unpaid?

3. Data from the time of commencement of Community Protection Notices (CPNs):
a) Under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (ASBCPA) 2014, s43 how many CPNs have been issued?
b) Under the ASBCPA s43 how many Community Protection Notices have been issued?
c) Under the ASBCPA, s52 how many fixed penalty notices have been issued?
Under the ASBCPA, s48 how many individuals have committed the offence of failing to comply with the order?
d) Under the ASBCPA, s46 how many appeals have there been against the CPNs?
e) How many fines have been paid and/or how many fines remain unpaid?
If possible, it would be helpful if the data could be broken down by year, parish and type of litter offence (e.g. car litter, etc). If the council does not have the data (mentioned above) which body holds this data?

Yours faithfully,

Samantha Davey

Debbie Bunce, Tendring District Council

Dear Samantha,

 

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Debbie Bunce, Tendring District Council

Dear Samantha,

 

Further to your FOI request submitted on 26 January, please find below the
answers to your questions:-

 

1. Data for the last 5 years on the following:

a) Under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1990, s87 how many
individuals committed the offence of leaving litter? 3

b) Under the EPA s88 how many fixed penalty notices for leaving litter
were issued? 3

c) How many of these fines were paid and/or how many fines remain unpaid?
1 left unpaid

d) How many challenges have been made against payment of fines? 0

e) How many litter abatement notices were issued under the EPA s92? 0

f) How many street litter control notices were issued under EPA ss93-94? 0

g) How many litter clearance notices were issued under the EPA s92A? 0

 

2. Data from the time of commencement of Public Space Protection Orders
(PSPOs):

 

a) Under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (ASBCPA) 2014,
s59 how many PSPOs have been made? ONE

b) Under the ASBCPA, s67 how many individuals have failed to comply with
the order? 51

c) How many fixed penalty notices were issued for PSPOs under the ASBCPA,
s68?  9

d) Under the ASBCPA, s61 how many further various have been made to orders
in effect? None

e) Under the ASBCPA, s66 how many times has the validity of the orders
been challenged? None

f) How many of these fines were paid and/or how many fines remain unpaid? 
Unknown at the moment

 

3. Data from the time of commencement of Community Protection Notices
(CPNs):

a) Under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (ASBCPA) 2014,
s43 how many CPNs have been issued?

b) Under the ASBCPA s43 how many Community Protection Notices have been
issued?

c) Under the ASBCPA, s52 how many fixed penalty notices have been issued?

Under the ASBCPA, s48 how many individuals have committed the offence of
failing to comply with the order?

d) Under the ASBCPA, s46 how many appeals have there been against the
CPNs?

e) How many fines have been paid and/or how many fines remain unpaid?

If possible, it would be helpful if the data could be broken down by year,
parish and type of litter offence (e.g. car litter, etc). If the council
does not have the data (mentioned above) which body holds this data?

 

Question 3. TDC have not issued any CPN’s either alone or jointly with
Essex Police.  Therefore all the other sub questions under 3 are
irrelevant.

 

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Kind regards

 

 

 

 

Debbie Bunce PC.foi

Legal Administration and Information Officer

Governance and Legal Services

Corporate Services

( (01255) 686573

8 [1][email address]

 

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Dear Debbie Bunce,

Thank you for your speedy and thorough response. Is there any chance that you would be able to break down those figures annually?

Yours sincerely,

Samantha Davey

Debbie Bunce, Tendring District Council

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Debbie Bunce, Tendring District Council

Dear Samantha,

 

Further to your e-mail please find below the further information
requested:-

 

Question 1

 

2016/17 1 issued and 1 paid

2015/16 0

2014/15 1 issued and 1 paid

2013/14 1 issued and 1 unpaid

2012/13 0

 

Question 2

 

The PSPO came into place 01^st July 2016 so there are only figures for
2016.  The figures for the PSPO are for the first 5 months to end of
December 2016.

 

I trust that this answers your question.

 

Kind regards

 

Debbie

 

 

Debbie Bunce PC.foi

Legal Administration and Information Officer

Governance and Legal Services

Corporate Services

( (01255) 686573

8 [1][email address]

 

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Dear Debbie Bunce,

Thank you, you have been very helpful.

Yours sincerely,

Samantha Davey

Debbie Bunce, Tendring District Council

Thank you for contacting Legal Services.

We aim to respond to all emails as soon as possible but please note that whilst our aim is to provide a response within 10 working days, we are currently experiencing an extremely high volume of work and a full response may take longer. In the event that your enquiry is particularly complicated, or we need to seek further instruction or detail from you, and may therefore take longer than 10 working days we will advise you of this.

Thank you for your co-operation and patience.

Please note that Tendring District Council does not accept service of documents by e-mail.

Debbie Bunce
Legal Administration and Information Officer
Governance and Legal Services
Corporate Services
* (01255) 686573
* [email address]<mailto:[email address]>

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