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# Public Space Protection Orders come into force
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/public-space-protection-orders-come-into-force/
- Published: 2017-01-31T22:07:56.000Z
- Updated: 2017-01-31T22:07:56.000Z
- Description: Brighton & Hove City Council have introduced new powers to deal with specific anti-social behaviour in parks and open spaces. Public Space Protections Orders (PSPOs) for 12 parks and open spaces, including the seafront, were approved in July following a public consultation earlier in the year.
- Author: Gary Hart
- Tags: In The South, News, Brighton & Hove City Council, Cllr GIll Mitchell

## Brighton & Hove City Council have introduced new powers to deal with specific anti-social behaviour in parks and open spaces.

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Public Space Protections Orders (PSPOs) for 12 parks and open spaces, including the seafront, were approved in July following a public consultation earlier in the year.

The orders came into effect from January 1 2017 and will start to be enforced from April. The PSPOs remain in force for a maximum of three years.

The PSPOs cover anti-social activities in the areas including people living in vehicles and tents, driving on the grass, defecating, lighting fires and fly-tipping.

**Councillor Gill Mitchell, chair of the city’s environment committee, said:** *“We have wonderful parks and open spaces and the PSPOs will help us ensure everyone’s enjoyment of them is not spoilt by a minority. We understand the frustration and upset caused by nuisance, anti-social behaviour environmental damage in our open spaces, and believe Public Space Protection Orders are a useful addition to the work we already do to keep parks clean and safe.”*

**Where they apply, the PSPOs impose prohibitions on:**

- Occupying any vehicle, caravan, tent or other structure
- Driving any vehicle on grass
- Littering or fly tipping
- Lighting or maintaining a fire
- Defecating or urinating

**On request by an authorised officer, police officer or PCSO, anyone challenged needs to:**

- remove any vehicle, caravan, tent or other structure within 12 hours
- disposing of items as directed
- permit a council, police or fire officer to extinguish a fire
- provide a name, address and date of birth when required to do so by a council or police officer

Breaching a Public Space Protection Order is a criminal offence.

**For more information, [click here:](http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/pspo?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

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