FI16636

Request

1. How many Fixed Penalty Notices have you issued each year since 2023? 
2. Could you provide a breakdown of what offences have triggered FPNs each year since 2020, or at least since 2023? 
3. How much do you charge per FPN for standard offences such as littering or flytipping? 
4. Do you outsource your litter enforcement and if so for how much and who to? 
5. How many Public Space Protection Orders have you implemented in the last five years, and for what? 

Response

1. As follows:

• 2023: 52
• 2024: 10
• 2025: 6

2. As follows:

FPN offence type	No. FPNs served in calendar year
	2023	2024	2025
Failure to comply with a PSPO	31	3	3
Failure to produce waste transfer notes	7	2	0
Depositing Litter	3	0	0
Failure to comply with a Community Protection Notice	1	5	3
Failure to fulfil Duty of Care in Respect of Waste	1	0	0
Fly Tipping	9	0	0

3. Our littering Fixed Penalty Notice is set at £100 reduced to £75 if paid within 10 days and our Fly tipping Fixed Penalty Notice is set at £1,000 reduced to £500 if paid within 10 days. 

4. No.

5. Two PSPOs have been implemented in the last five years. The current PSPO can be viewed on the following weblink: Public-Spaces-Protection-Order-Dover-District-Council-2025.pdf. These have introduced measures to deal with the following behaviours:

• Failure to remove dog faces forthwith
• Failure to place a dog on the lead when directed to do so by an authorised officer of the council
• Being in charge of a dog off the lead in a designated dogs on lead area
• Being in charge of a dog in a designated dog exclusion area
• Street drinking
• Unauthorised camping