The Clean Neighbourhood Act

The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 gives local authorities additional powers to deal with local environmental offences. These include new powers to issue fixed penalty notice and if these are not paid, the power to prosecute.

Offences that fall under this act include:

  • Nuisance parking (selling multiple vehicles or repairing vehicles for profit, on public roads)
  • Abandoned vehicles (vehicles that have been left in public places and not claimed within a fixed period)
  • Depositing litter (dropping rubbish in any open place, including smoking materials and chewing gum)
  • Failure to comply with street litter control notice (where owners of properties in a particular area are obliged to keep it free from litter and refuse)
  • Failure to comply with street litter clearing notice (where owners of properties in a particular area are instructed to clear an area of litter and refuse within a particular time period)
  • Failure to produce waste documents (making sure you have a transfer note whenever waste is transferred from one party to another)
  • Failure to produce authority to transport waste (requiring registration of vehicles carrying waste)
  • Fly-posting and graffiti (putting up an advertising poster in unauthorised places, or unauthorised writing or drawing in public places)
  • Unauthorised distribution of free printed matter (handing out flyers or other publications in a public place without consent - except charity, political, or religious material)
  • Failure to comply with waste receptacles notice (where individuals or businesses do not use the correct waste container for the correct materials, or waste is left out too far in advance of collection)
  • Failure to comply with dog control order (including offences about fouling of land, removal of dog faeces, keeping dogs on leads, exclusion of dogs from certain land, and the numberof dogs being taken onto land).

Find out about the services we already provide: report an abandoned vehicle, fly-tipping, graffiti, fly-posting or dog-fouling.

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Contact details:

Telephone:
01722 434319 or 434320

email:
enhmail@salisbury.gov.uk

Postal address:
Environmental Services
Salisbury District Council
PO Box 2126
Salisbury
SP2 2DJ