The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act
2005
The Dog Control Orders (Prescribed Offences and
Penalties Etc.) Regulations 2006
The Dog Control Order (Procedures) Regulations
2006
Following public consultation, West Lancashire Borough
Council has made 4 Dog Control Orders (DCOs) inline with the above
legislation. These Orders will come into force on 3 July
2009. Notices (29.7kb) were
published in the local press outlining the content and effect of
the Orders.
- The Dogs Exclusion Order 2009 (142kb).
This applies to land listed in the schedule below. A person in
charge of a dog will be guilty of an offence if at any time he
takes a dog onto, or permits a dog to enter or to remain on, any of
the enclosed children's play areas to which this Order applies.
Anyone found committing an offence will be issued with a fixed
penalty of £75.00.
Schedule of Borough Council "enclosed play areas" at:
- Coronation Park, Park Road, Ormskirk, West
Lancs (75.2kb)
- Ennerdale/Tanhouse Park, Ennerdale,
Skelmersdale, West Lancs (78.1kb)
- Cascades, Ormskirk Road, Skelmersdale, West
Lancs (82.8kb)
- Bracknel Way, Aughton, Ormskirk, West Lancs
(68kb)
- Abrams Fold/Lancaster Gate, Banks, West Lancs
(75.6kb)
- Appley Playing Fields, Appley Lane South, Appley
Bridge, West Lancs (63.3kb)
- Banksbarn, Digmoor, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(79.9kb)
- Abbeystead, Gillibrands Road, Little Digmoor,
Skelmersdale, West Lancs (87.3kb)
- Fairhaven, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(94.7kb)
- Banks Leisure Centre, Greaves Hall Avenue, Banks,
West Lancs (83.1kb)
- Hawksclough, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(81.5kb)
- Holland Moor, Digmoor, Skelmersdale, West
Lancs (72.2kb)
- Mawdsley Terrance, Ormskirk, West Lancs
(82.8kb)
- Priory Close/Vicarage Gardens, Burscough, West
Lancs (78.3kb)
- Rees Park, Burscough, West Lancs (73kb)
- Richmond Park, Burscough, West Lancs
(90.4kb)
- School Lane, Westhead, Ormskirk, West Lancs
(76.7kb)
- Stanley, Coronation Park, Skelmersdale, West
Lancs (90.6kb)
- Firbeck, Skelmersdale Town Centre, Skelmersdale,
West Lancs (76.7kb)
- Trinity Walks, Tarleton, West Lancs
(71.7kb)
- Broadacre, Upholland, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(72.1kb)
- Dewberry Fields, Upholland, Skelmersdale, West
Lancs (91.1kb)
- Moy Park, Scarisbrick, West Lancs
(70.7kb)
- Willows, Victoria Park, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(88.7kb)
- Southport Road, Scarisbrick, West Lancs
(92.3kb)
- Poppyfields, Hesketh Bank, West Lanc
(78.3kb)
- Eavesdale/Edenhurst, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(71.4kb)
- White Moss Road, Skelmersdale, West Lancs
(71.6kb)
Schedule of Parish Council "enclosed play areas" at:
- Winifred Lane, Aughton, West Lancs
(51.7kb)
- Redsands, Aughton, West Lancs (40.5kb)
- Holt Green, Aughton, West Lancs
(44.3kb)
- Mere Avenue, Burscough, West Lancs
(40.7kb)
- Engine Lane, Great Altcar, West Lancs
(40.1kb)
- Memorial Hall, Halsall Road, Halsall, West Lancs
(44.7kb)
- Shore Road, Hesketh with Becconsall, West Lancs
(44.1kb)
- Glen Park Drive, Hesketh with Becconsall, West
Lancs (42.7kb)
- Schwartzmans Drive, North Meols, West Lancs
(40.8kb)
- Village Hall, The Green, Parbold, West Lancs
(54kb)
- Burnside, Parbold, West Lancs (40.6kb)
- Village Hall, Smithy Lane, Scarisbrick, West Lancs
(43.5kb)
- Carr Lane, Tarleton, West Lancs (32.7kb)
- Mill Lane, Up Holland, West Lancs
(41.5kb)
- Lawns Ave, Up Holland, West Lancs (45.6kb)
- The Dogs on Leads Order 2009
(65.2kb). This applies to all carriageways in the West
Lancashire Borough Council area with a speed limit of 40mph or
greater and adjoining footways, cycle tracks and verges. A
person in charge of a dog will be guilty of an offence if, at any
time, on any land to which this Order applies, he does not keep the
dog on a lead. Anyone found committing an offence will be issued
with a fixed penalty of £75.00.
- The Dogs (Specified Maximum) Order 2009
(69.9kb). This applies to all land that is within the West
Lancashire Borough Council area, where the public are allowed
access with or without payment. It is an offence to take more than
6 dogs onto any land to which the Order applies. Anyone found
committing an offence will be issued with a fixed penalty of
£75.00.
- The Dogs on Leads by Direction Order
2009 (100kb). This applies to all land that is within the West
Lancashire Borough Council area, where the public are allowed
access with or without payment. It is an offence not to comply with
the direction by an authorised officer of the Council to put, and
keep, a dog on a lead where such restraint is necessary to prevent
it being a nuisance or disturbance to any other person, animal or
bird on any land to which the Order applies. Anyone found
committing an offence will be issued with a fixed penalty of
£75.00.
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