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Community Enforcement Partnership Programme

Cornwall Council

Kevin Brader Zoe Hall James Peck

Neighbourhoods Directorate

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Environmental challenges

• ‘You are not doing enough’- from local

councils

• Residents survey results: 58% of residents

felt environmental nuisance* was a very

• r fairly big problem in their local area’.

*Environmental nuisance: fly tipping, dog fouling, littering

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Environmental challenges

• Large, rural county (1,376 sq miles)
• 400 miles of remote coastline
• 536,000 population
• 213 Parish/Town Councils
• 9 dog wardens reduced to 4
• 7 Community & Environmental Enforcement Officers
• Ongoing budget cuts to front line enforcement staff

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Understanding our communities

• Attended Community Network Panel meetings
• Combined visits with town and parish councils to

problem areas

• Combined high visibility enforcement patrols with

town and parish councils

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Our aim

“To engage and empower local communities to better tackle environmental nuisance/crime and to create a more green and prosperous Cornwall”

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What our communities wanted

Education Reporting Enforcement

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Education

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Targeted Signage

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Reporting

(Community Involvement)

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Online reporting

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Online reporting

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Incident Report Cards

• New non-contact Enforcement

tool

• Co-designed with Launceston

and Bodmin Town Councils

• For both councillor & staff use!
• To record key details relating to

a littering, dog fouling or fly tipping incident

• Can enable the service of a

postal fixed penalty notice.

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Environmental Fixed Penalty Notices

• Littering: £150
• Dog Fouling: £100
• Fly tipping: £400

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Safe, Simple & Effective

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Safe, Simple & Effective

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Returning Incident Report Cards

Completed Incident Report cards must be returned to Cornwall Council within 7 days of witnessing an incident

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Cornwall Council Support - Process

• Our Technical Support team will initially process your

Incident Report Card

• Allocated to our Enforcement Team
• If registered vehicle ownership details are needed, our

Enforcement Team will request these from the DVLA (information requests can take up to 10 days)

• A postal fixed penalty notice will be served unless

further evidence or an investigation is needed

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Keeping you in the loop

• Town and Parish Council clerks will be notified of

fixed penalty notices served arising from Incident Report Cards (quarterly basis)

• Further bespoke refresher training sessions can be

provided upon request

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Incident Report cards

The launch of the Incident Report Cards has been extremely well received by Launceston Town

• Council. It is an excellent scheme and shows really

strong partnership working between the two

• rganisations’

Chris Drake – Clerk for Launceston Town Council

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Incident Report Card - Testimonial

“This scheme enables positive action to be taken against those very few individuals who persist in this disgusting behaviour (dog fouling) which is a health hazard to all.”

Chris Bell – Clerk for St Day Parish Council

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What has been done so far

Non-contact enforcement tool initiative

• Hosted 14 countywide training events
• Engaged with 82 local councils
• 35 local councils currently implementing the

scheme.

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Enforcement

(Increasing Capacity)

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Multi-skilled enforcement officers

• Trained & authorised 9 Civil

Parking Enforcement Officers

• Authorised to issue:
• Penalty charge notices

(PCNs) for parking offences

• Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs)

for littering, dog fouling and ‘dogs on beaches’

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Interest from communities to provide additional multi-skilled enforcement patrolling

• 2019 - deployed 3 multi-skilled civil parking

enforcement officers funded by Hayle, St Ives, St Miner Highlands/Lowlands town/parish Councils

• Interest from 10 other town/parish councils for 2020
• Upgrading current parking-only SLAs

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Multi-skilled enforcement officer

Kim Tyler Woods- Multi-skilled officer operating in St Minver Highlands and Lowlands

“To be in one area for the whole summer has meant I’ve been able to build good relationships with the locals and tourists, who quite often come back year after year.”

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Multi-skilled enforcement officer

Louise Dwelly - Support Services Manager, St Ives Town Council

The multi-skilled enforcement service was a highly effective example of joint working. For the first year since their introduction, the dog control

• rders were enforced.”

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Environmental achievements

Fixed Penalty Notices Last year: 17, This year: 84 (6 months) Dog fouling reports Last year: 753, This year:264 (6 months) Littering reports Last year: 68, This year: 59 (improved reporting) Fly tipping reports (public land) Last year: 4,698, This year: 1,904 (6 months)

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Many thanks