Local Environmental Quality Enforcement Strategy

Environmental problems such as litter, dumped rubbish, graffiti, abandoned vehicles and fly tipping can seriously blight a neighbourhood, increasing people’s fear of crime and lowering their quality of life.

Plymouth City Council is committed to, and has a duty to ensure that we maintain the local environment to a high standard by keeping the streets and green spaces clean and free of litter, collecting refuse, removing graffiti and dealing with abandoned vehicles.

Strategic Objective 7 of Plymouth City Council’s Corporate Plan 2007 to 2010 'maintaining a clean and sustainable environment' outlines the Council’s desire to achieve consistently high standards of local environmental quality across the city by improving both the services it operates and by dealing with the causes of environmental problems.

The Clean Neighbourhood and Environment Act (CNEA) 2005 introduced new powers to enable councils to deal more effectively with environmental crime and other Local Environmental Quality issues.

The CNEA also places an emphasis on the role of proper enforcement as an important tool in any council’s armoury when dealing with environmental quality problems and crime.

Plymouth City Council is committed to the principles laid out in the Government’s Enforcement Concordat and the new Regulators Compliance Code.

This means we will try and persuade people to change their behaviour through information, education and advice, but will not hesitate to take enforcement action such as issuing Fixed Penalty Notices or prosecuting when appropriate. This will send a clear message of zero tolerance to those individuals or businesses who continue to spoil our environment.

The draft enforcement strategy lays out how we propose to use our new powers and make best use of our existing powers to ensure that we achieve the best possible outcomes in terms of improving Plymouth’s environment and improving the quality of life for people living in the city.

We would however value your input and opinion. The strategy can be downloaded from the documents table below and after you have read it, we would be grateful if you could take a moment to complete the questionnaire from the documents table below and send it to us at Freepost Plus RLTZ-USGK-GAHU, LEQ Consultation, Plymouth City Council, Civic Centre, Armada Way, Plymouth PL1 2AA.

Copies of the strategy document and the questionnaire can also be obtained:

• by post LEQ Consultation, Public Protection Service, Floor 6, The Civic Centre, Plymouth PL1 2AA
• by phone 01752 304147
• by fax 01752 226314
• by email public.protection@plymouth.gov.uk

If you have any queries about the strategy or the consultation process, please don’t hesitate to contact us using the details above.

Documents

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	Local Environmental Quality Enforcement Strategy - consultation policy for enforcement strategy. File format Adobe Acrobat - 676KB
	Environmental Quality Enforcement questionnaire - questionnaire. File format Microsoft Word - 77KB

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