Issue - meetings

Arising from a report of the Environment and Enforcement Manager the Environment Policy Development Group have made the following recommendations:

·         To resolve to make and bring into force the draft PSPO at Appendix A.

·         To authorise the Monitoring Officer to take all necessary steps to make and bring it into force the draft PSPO at Appendix A.

·         To instruct Officers to bring to the Environment PDG a draft variation of the PSPO (once made) to include the land identified by Hemyock for consideration for consultation.

Arising from a *report of the Environment and Enforcement Manager the Environment Policy Development Group had made the following recommendations:

·         To resolve to make and bring into force the draft PSPO at Appendix A.

·         To authorise the Monitoring Officer to take all necessary steps to make and bring into force the draft PSPO at Appendix A.

·         To instruct Officers to bring to the Environment PDG a draft variation of the PSPO (once made) to include the land identified by Hemyock for consideration for consultation.

The Cabinet Member for the Environment and Climate Change outlined the contents of the report highlighting the history of the PSPO and the work that had been undertaken to date which included a further consultation process.

Consideration was given to:

·         The resource available for enforcement

·         The work of the enforcement officers

·         The need to consider the culture of enforcement across Mid Devon

RESOLVED that the recommendation of the Policy Development Group be approved.

(Proposed by Cllr C R Slade and seconded by Cllr D J Knowles)

Reason for the Decision - to ensure that the Council has a Public Spaces Protection Order in place.

Note:  *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.

To receive the key findings from the consultation on a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) for the Mid Devon area which ran from 21^st May to 18^th June 2021, to update the Environment PDG (and the Cabinet) on the feedback received from the PSPO public consultation and to seek approval on a revised PSPO to be made in response to the consultation.

The Group had before it a *report of the Environment and Enforcement Manager setting out the key findings from the consultation on the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO).

The Environment and Enforcement Manager informed the Group that the PSPO contained the results of the recent public consultation. She advised that two area’s in Hemyock had been left off parts of the order in error and she apologies for this.

In order to include the two missed areas the Officer informed the Group that the PSPO could be brought into force and a variation adding the two areas could be brought back to the Environment PDG at a later date, once the public consultation was done on these areas.

The Group agreed that a lot of work had gone into the PSPO and that it should not be delayed in coming into force. They agreed that further area’s to be added should be brought as a variation at a later date.

It was therefore RECOMMENDED to the Cabinet that:

1.    To make and bring into force the draft PSPO at appendix A

2.    To authorise the Monitoring Officer to take all necessary steps to make and bring into force the draft PSPO at appendix A

3.    To instruct officers to bring to the Environment PDG a draft variation of the PSPO (once made) to include the land identified by Hemyock for consideration for consultation

(Proposed by Cllr B G J Warren and seconded by Cllr R F Radford)

Reason for the decision: To ensure that the Council has a Public Spaces Protection Order in place

Note: *Report previously circulated and attached to the minutes