Rubbish In Your Garden? Homeowners Who Dump Rubbish Face On The Spot Penalties

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Ministers want to stop irresponsible homeowners or tenants from blighting whole streets or neighbourhoods by turning their front garden into a ‘dumping ground’.
The powers will apply to privately owned homes as well as council houses. Officials will target only those guilty of ‘persistent, unreasonable behaviour’.
They will be given a warning and told to clear the rubbish away. If they ignore the notice, they will then be guilty of a crime.
Officials do not want to target law-abiding householders who are forced to have rubbish in their gardens at certain times of the week because of the complicated recycling policies introduced by many councils.
And the law will be worded to protect homeowners from over-zealous council officials patrolling the streets looking to make money by issuing on-the-spot fines.
Residents have been given penalty notices for putting their rubbish out on the wrong day or for not shutting their dustbin lid properly under existing ‘bin laws’.
But the new rules will apply only to repeat offenders. They will be given a fixed period of time ...
... to clean up their garden before any fine is issued.
Today’s antisocial behaviour White Paper also sounds the death knell for Labour’s flagship Anti-Social Behaviour Order, which is to be scrapped.
There will be a bonfire of Labour’s anti-lout legislation – with 19 powers reduced to only six.
The Community Protection Notice could be issued to an individual or responsible person within a business, such as a takeaway shop.
It garden rubble removal will also give police – and not just town halls – the tipper grab hire power to deal with noisy neighbours in the middle of the night.
Ministers are determined to get a grip on low-level thuggish behaviour. The Asbos were routinely breached by thugs, who quickly considered having one of the orders to be a ‘badge of honour’.
They were also given out in some bizarre circumstances. A woman who tipper hire tried to kill herself four times by jumping off bridges was banned from loitering on bridges, going on to railway lines or entering multi-storey car parks unaccompanied. And an 88-year-old man from Merseyside was banned from swearing or making sarcastic remarks.
Asbos will be replaced by Crime Prevention Injunctions, which officials say will be easier and faster to impose.
Unlike the Asbo, the injunction would not require a magistrate to be certain that the defendant had acted in an antisocial manner.
It would instead be secured against a lower burden of proof.
The plans to enable residents to force police to take action over anti-social behaviour after three separate incidents or five complaints is still insufficient.
Victims deserve to be taken seriously as soon as they make a report to police,Victim Support said.
Javed Khan, the group's chief executive, said: 'We hope that the new criminal behaviour order will deliver the rapid response for victims that is needed.
'But just dishing out the orders won't be enough.
'If the Government really wants to put victims first, tough enforcement and follow-up will be required, to avoid making the CBO an empty sanction.'

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