The campaign to help Snodland Go Cleaner will be focusing on dog fouling this year with two enforcement days already planned for April. Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council’s enforcement team will be out patrolling the town centre, Nevill Park, the Recreation Ground and Willowside areas of the town during the campaign and issuing fixed penalty notices of £50 to anyone caught failing to clear up after their dog.
The Snodland Goes Cleaner Campaign began in 2008 and many local organisations are working in partnership to clear up the town and surrounding areas. The Snodland Goes Cleaner Partnership has appointed two new Co-chairs for 2010: Luke Chapman, who is a pupil at Holmesdale Technology College and is a recent recipient of the Council’s Environmental Champions Award, and Nicky Delacey, who works for The Beat Project in Snodland. The new Co-chairs will be leading the partnership in tackling dog fouling this year.
To kick-start the anti-dog fouling part of the campaign, the Snodland Goes Cleaner Partnership has a limited number of bone-shaped re-usable dog poo dispensers, which are being offered on a ‘first come, first served’ basis to dog owners in Snodland. The dog poo dispensers are available from Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council’s offices, Gibson Drive, Kings Hill, Snodland Town Council offices and The Beat Project, which is based at the Wolfe Centre in the grounds of Holmesdale Technology College.
Nicky Delacey, Co-chairman of the Snodland Goes Cleaner Partnership, says: “This campaign is going from strength to strength and Snodland really is becoming cleaner. Dog fouling continues to be a problem however and that’s why we’ll be focussing on this issue for 2010. We hope the new dog poo dispensers will prove to be a hit with dog owners but we only have a limited number so the message is ‘get yours while you can’.”
The Partnership will also continue with its anti-littering and fly-tipping work throughout the year. Nicky continues: “We want to get the message across that other peoples’ rubbish costs you money. It costs tax payers about £100,000 each year to keep Snodland’s streets clean and we hope that this campaign will really highlight how important it is to dispose of our rubbish responsibly.”
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