THURROCK Council will increase the value of fixed penalty notices to tackle forms of anti-social behaviour and help keep the borough clean.
Last November, legislation was introduced to allow councils to increase the level of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for Littering, Graffiti and Fly-Posting to £150 as part of the Litter Strategy for England.
A council spokesperson said: “The new rules, which increase charges to £150 per offence, will begin 1 April 2018. The increase in fine values will help to deter those who choose to make our borough untidy.
“The council’s zero tolerance approach to littering and associated offences will continue through issuing Fixed Penalty Notices or where appropriate prosecuting through the criminal courts.”
Since April 2017, 2966 Fixed Penalty Notices have been issued to offenders and 100 successful prosecutions for non-payment of fines.
For more information, visit thurrock.gov.uk/fpn
Oh this does make me laugh.
The borough is a hovel everywhere you go, so the policy is not working at all.
Just another way of extracting money.
Forget the fines,jail them and make them pay to stay in jail. bet that will sort it.
The boasts of how well clean it, cut it, fill it are working is a charade.
CLEAN IT
I get the feeling there are more street cleaners out there (surely a sign that the battle is not bein won), more fly tips and the majority of fines issued are for a fag butt around Grays Town Centre.
On a daily basis in Morrisons car park you can see litter blowing in the wind and the enforcers lurching to enforce watcing said littler blowing by, they would be better used whilst waiting for offenders to collect some of the litter that they have so obviously missed being dropped, surely this would set an example.
All this and still the borugh looks a tip.
The only winners here are the privately run Enforcing company
CUT IT, now spring is here things should get tidied up, but even this is often half hearted, too often you see areas where they have been mis cut or not strimmed and the overall look is tatty.
Go back when we saw the verge silted edges of footways trimmed back, not so now, although I spotted this activity on Stifford Road Ockendon when undertaking the layby removal, a first! (I doubt it was anything to do with CUT IT though as it would appear to have been necessary within the scope of works.)
FILL IT, I think this is the punch line that wins the award as the most hilarious.
Driving around the borough now you can see the potholes appearing daily as weather and under spending on the roads infrastructure takes its toll, the boasts of all potholes filled by March 1st was an understatement, we have more potholes now that before the campaign started and many more roads that will be tomorrow’s and the next days potholes over the coming months.
So much for the dustcart technology, by now TBC should be armed with reams of information, but no funding in place to make a difference.
The HE run SCRIM tests on most main arteries and even those are falling below the acceptable standard so what chance have the pothole brigade got.
If we carry on potholes on potholes will be the way we see our roads in the future.
To support the claim any pothole being repaired should be cut back until the surrounding area is sound (minimum 150mm) you see our repairs cut as close to edge of existing potholes, so no chance of lasting, just a quick fix probably to support KPI’s for TBC, no reality to quality or longevity, many potholes have already come out or been added to over the last few months.
LAUGHABLE!
Lets get voting this inept council out in May.
To whom it may concern.
I would like to see proof of the alleged offence.
Ref No. 450208239
Date 06.08.21
Would appreciate if you could supply me with evidence.
Thank you
Its an absolute farce allowing these types of fines when there are bigger and worse issues to be dealt with that are in plain sight. Fines like these just make people angry and affects trade in the area it will not stop a person from dropping a cigarette anywhere else and the persons would make a point of getting their monies worth so backfires.