Dog control
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This enables us to stop dogs from entering certain areas including:
- Gated children’s playgrounds
- Gated sports area such as sports courts, multi-use games areas, tennis courts
These are spaces within a park, open space or housing estate and which is fully or substantially enclosed and set apart for the use by children as a playground or other area for play or for sporting activities. For the purposes of this definition, the means of access to or egress from such area, whether by way of a gate or any other opening within the enclosure, shall be deemed to be a part of the said enclosure.
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It is an offence if dog owners do not remove their pet faeces from land within Tower Hamlets that is open to the air and accessible to the public. This includes:
- public roads, footpaths, cycle paths and verges adjacent to these roads
- parks and recreational spaces, cemeteries and Council-owned allotments
- school playing fields, playgrounds and any land surrounding schools and colleges
- council-owned housing estates
Failure to comply with the dog fouling control order may result in the issue of a £100 penalty and/or prosecution with a maximum fine up to £1,000.
People who are registered as blind, disabled, or otherwise rely on dogs will be exempt from this order.
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- The Public Space Protection Order (Dog Control) prohibits any one person having more than four dogs under their control at any given time.
This order applies unless the person has a valid professional dog walkers license issued by London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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- This gives authorised council officers the power to request that dogs are put on leads where they are not under the appropriate control of their owner, or where they are causing damage or acting aggressively.
The orders can also be inspected and copies obtained from Tower Hamlets Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BJ by prior arrangement.
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- This stops owners from exercising dogs off-lead on:
- Roads
- Pavements
- Car parks
- Estate roads and communal areas on estates
Links and associated pages
Dogs in our parks
You, your dog and the law
Report a lost pet or stray animal
Report it – including dog-related ASB issues
Report a street cleaning problem – including animal fouling