Their fines and cautions were amongst thousands released in 2022-23 by the Brighton and Hove City Council ecological enforcement group, creating £382,000.
A report to the council’s City Environment, South Downs and the Sea Committee noted the variety of fines and notifications and cautions dispensed for different offenses consisting of littering, fly-tipping and graffiti.
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The report showed that 1,654 fines were released for commercial and business waste offenses, consisting of charges troubled businesses that put their bins out at the incorrect time or location.
The council dispensed 728 fines for cluttering and 396 for business fly-tipping, the committee was informed the other day (Tuesday 20 June).
Businesses that are “registered waste carriers” need to have a “duty of care certificate” however 354 fines were given out for “non-compliance” and 199 for those stopping working to produce a certificate.
The report said that, on Monday 5 June, 7 members of the council’s ecological enforcement group signed up with the Environment Agency, Sussex Police and the Commercial Vehicle Unit to inspect business cars getting in and leaving Brighton by Preston Drove.
More than 100 cars were picked up licence, file and safety checks, with 9 drivers received repaired charge notifications for not having a waste provider licence.
Sussex Police fined 10 for driver or vehicle offenses and 5 were offered set charge notifications from the Commercial Vehicle Unit for having unsafe tires, insecure loads or malfunctioning brakes.
The report included: “It was a positive day, with illegal and dangerous vehicles dealt with. Those walking by welcomed the presence of the organisations involved and the action being taken. Another day is being planned.”
The council released 230 “community protection warnings” and 128 “community protection notices” as part of a drive to take on graffiti.
More than half of the neighborhood security notifications were followed up with a fine while 16 fines were released to individuals discovered to have actually been accountable for graffiti.
Councillors voted to stop sending out cautions to little and independent businesses and to stop enforcing fines on them when their properties were targeted by taggers. A number had actually grumbled that they were victims of crime who were, in result, being “punished twice”.
An overall of 37 fines were handed for breaching brand-new guidelines prohibiting single-use barbecues on council-owned land such as beaches.
Dog fouling was at the bottom of the list, with simply 4 individuals great while 6 individuals were fined for fly-posting and 15 for cluttering from a vehicle.
Some 42 individuals were fined for having a dog in a location where they were prohibited while 57 individuals – more than one a week – were fined for spitting, urinating or defecating.
