Dog Mess Farce

Following Havering Council recently passing a report at Cabinet to consult on issuing fixed penalty notices for dog fouling, Havering Park Councillor, Andrew Mann has hit out at Havering Council over its double standards in relation to the issue of dog mess across the Borough.

The Council is currently carrying out a consultation of the possibility of issuing fixed penalty notices to the owners of dogs that fail the footpaths and parks and open spaces in the Councils control. However, the Residents Association spokesman for the Environment, Cllr Mann feels the Council is not doing enough to support residents when bins go un-emptied for weeks and are held together with bits of string !

He said “Havering Council want dog users to use the bins provided in the parks to dispose of the dogs mess, however the bins are constantly full with bags of mess all over the floor and one bin even held together with a bit of string”.

Cllr Mann also hit out at the StreetCare Cabinet member Cllr Barry Tebbutt, for refusing to consider the possibility of installing dog bins on the streets around park entrances to help combat the dog mess problem. Cllr Mann said “A small amount of bins could be placed around the park entrances to help promote residents keeping our environment cleaner; it is only a very small minority of residents that allow their dogs to foul the pavements, and the provision of more bins and ones not held together by string would be a good start”