Dog fouling problem in city still stinks

What I would like to know is, are fines actually being meted out? How many people have been fined since this new approach was adopted? Unfortunately, I haven’t witnessed any improvement, with even central areas of the city having been a complete mess recently, if you’ll pardon the pun.

The council claimed that those who didn’t ‘Bag It and Bin It!’ would automatically be issued with a fixed penalty fine of £50, which, if not paid, would lead to court proceedings.

From walking around the city recently, it doesn’t seem to me to have terrified those dirty dog owners in the slightest, so how many £50 fines have been handed out, and have the council as claimed, benefited economically from this scheme to ‘enhance the city’?

Walking along Bachelor’s Walk and around the top of Graham Gardens over the past few weeks, has been less leisurely and more of a hop, skip and a jump to avoid the disgusting mess left by dirty dog owners, who fail to clean up after their pets.

In fact, Bow Street itself just the other week was filled with mess, trailed across the street by those unfortunate enough to step in it or perhaps by mothers wheeling prams and not spotting or expecting this unsightly mess in the middle of a city centre.

These tough new laws don’t seem to be very much in action. The council should make their actions louder than their words.

Disgusted ratepayer