Decision details

1. Note the consultation feedback and officer response;

2. Approve the adoption of the proposed Public Spaces Protection Order; and

3. Delegate authority to the Director of Environment to take the necessary steps to implement the proposed Order including:

a. Authority to instruct One Legal to seal the order;

b. Ensuring the required signage requirements are implemented; and

c. Authority to update officer delegations to incorporate the new powers.

To convert various existing orders under a single new PSPO.

The council can decide not to convert the current Designated Public Place Order and Dog Control Order to a PSPO but this will limit, in some cases substantially, the council’s ability to regulate and enforce transgressions associated with the above mentioned Orders.

One Legal, HR, GOSS Finance and Managing Director Place and Economic Development, Environmental and Regulatory Services. Comments included in the report.