Public Spaces Protection Orders
PSPO - Dog control
Consultation
We want to hear from you as part of a consultation about dog walkers using public spaces, children’s play areas and cemeteries in Pendle.
The Public Spaces Protection Orders put in place nine years ago and extended three years ago following public consultation are up for extension for a further three years.
This PSPO makes people in control of a dog in any space accessible to the public in Pendle responsible for picking up any fouling.
It allows only one dog per person to be taken into one of the Council’s cemeteries and bans dogs and smoking in children’s play areas.
Under the Order dogs are also banned from certain war memorials and memorial gardens.
Anyone not complying with Protection Orders can be issued with a fixed penalty notice of £100 or be prosecuted.
How to comment
Email asb@pendle.gov.uk
Phone (01282) 661280
Once the public consultation period is over, the proposed extension and any new proposals will go to Pendle’s Area Committees in August 2025.
Dog Rules in Public Spaces
Our Public Spaces Protection Order - dog fouling (PSPO) helps us:
- prevent dog fouling
- manage dogs in cemeteries
- make sure our play areas and multi use games areas are safe
You are committing an offence if you:
- let a dog to foul and do not pick the fouling up, unless you have a reasonable excuse or the permission of the land owner. This applies on any land where the public has access
- have a dog off a lead in Barrowford, Colne, Nelson, Earby, Salterforth or Ghyll cemeteries
- are in charge of more than one dog in Barrowford, Colne or Nelson cemeteries
- take a dog in a children's play area or multi use games area
- smoke in a children's play area or multi use games area
- take a dog into Barrowford Park War Memorial
If you are found guilty of one of these offences we can issue a fixed penalty notice of £100. If you don't pay, we can prosecute, and you may face a fine of up to £1000.
View maps of the individual public space protection order areas.