Issue - meetings

Public Spaces Protection Order - following consultation

Meeting: 08/02/2022 - Executive (Item 29)

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To consider the report of the Director Net Zero Exeter & City Management.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Agreed:

 

RECOMMENDED that Council approve:-

 

(1)   the variation of Prohibition E of the current order following a public consultation so that any individual whether or not in a group who is causing harassment, alarm and distress may be required to leave the area of the PSPO for a maximum of 24 hours as stated in Appendix A of the report;

 

(2)   no change to the remaining prohibitions of the Public Spaces Protection Order and the existing boundaries as shown in Appendix B of the report;

 

(3)   the extension of the PSPO for a further three years, commencing on 20 June 2022; and

 

(4)   the continuation of the current policy of funding received by the Council from fixed penalty notices issued for a breach of any PSPO to be ring-fenced for initiatives to address anti-social behaviour and that the funding continue to be administered through the Exeter Community Safety Partnership.

 

Reason for Decision: As set out in the report.

 

 

 

Minutes:

The Executive received the report on the variation of Prohibition E of the Public Spaces Protection Order 2017 (“PSPO”) which was due to expire on the 20 June 2022 and to seal a new order for the maximum of three years.

 

A consultation had run between October 2021 and December 2021, with the representations received being in favour of the variation to the PSPO to increase the time for dispersal to up to 24 hours for either a direction to leave made to an individual and or a dispersal order for two or more persons.

 

Members welcomed the report, which was considered to be a sensible approach with a strong agreement to amend Prohibition E. Members expressed their thanks to the Community Policing Team and staff for the work that had been undertaken.

 

RECOMMENDED that Council approve:-

 

(1)   the variation of Prohibition E of the current order following a public consultation so that any individual whether or not in a group who is causing harassment, alarm and distress may be required to leave the area of the PSPO for a maximum of 24 hours as stated in Appendix A of the report;

 

(2)   no change to the remaining prohibitions of the Public Spaces Protection Order and the existing boundaries as shown in Appendix B of the report;

 

(3)   the extension of the PSPO for a further three years, commencing on 20 June 2022; and

 

(4)   the continuation of the current policy of funding received by the Council from fixed penalty notices issued for a breach of any PSPO to be ring-fenced for initiatives to address anti-social behaviour and that the funding continue to be administered through the Exeter Community Safety Partnership.