Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Development and Safety

RESOLVED THAT

1.     the new powers available to the authority under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 be noted;

2.     the provisions of the community trigger/ASB case review be noted;

3.     authority be delegated to the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Services to, following appropriate consultation (to include the relevant Cabinet Member and ward councillors), adopt and publish Public Spaces Protection Orders where the area covered by the proposed Order is within the borough and subject to the statutory requirements for the making of an Order being satisfied;

4.     the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Services be authorised, under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, to designate officers as authorised persons under the Act;

5.     the use of fixed penalty notices be introduced for breaches of the Act, with the amount set at £80, reduced to £50 for early payment; and

6.     the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Services be authorised to take such actions and steps as are necessary for effective implementation of the preceding recommendations.

The Cabinet Member Development and Safety introduced the report and explained that the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (ASBCPA) introduced simpler, more effective powers to protect victims and communities from anti-social behaviour. The Act also provided for the use of fixed penalty notices (FPN) as an alternative to prosecution.

The Cabinet Member explained that the powers within the Act were wide ranging and covered civil injunctions, criminal behaviour orders, community protection notices, public space protection orders, ASB case review, dispersal power, closure powers and mandatory grounds for possession of a dwelling house.

The Cabinet Member stated that in order to ensure the council could lawfully use the powers contained within the Act, and take action pursuant to it, it was necessary to update the Scheme of Delegations in the Council’s Constitution to ensure that the functions of the council under the ASBCPA 2014 were included within the scheme. Cabinet were therefore asked to make these authorisations in order to enact these new delegated powers.

RESOLVED THAT

1.     the new powers available to the authority under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 be noted;

2.     the provisions of the community trigger/ASB case review be noted;

3.     authority be delegated to the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Services to, following appropriate consultation (to include the relevant Cabinet Member and ward councillors), adopt and publish Public Spaces Protection Orders where the area covered by the proposed Order is within the borough and subject to the statutory requirements for the making of an Order being satisfied;

4.     the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Services be authorised, under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, to designate officers as authorised persons under the Act;

5.     the use of fixed penalty notices be introduced for breaches of the Act, with the amount set at £80, reduced to £50 for early payment; and

6.     the Director of Environmental and Regulatory Services be authorised to take such actions and steps as are necessary for effective implementation of the preceding recommendations.