Using powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Epping Forest District Council is proposing to extend the current Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to help further reduce the number of anti-social behaviour incidents in Debden Broadway.
Consultation for Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) at The Broadway, Debden.
The conditions are as follows:
- Loitering by persons in council housing blocks and estates (including but not limited to any stairwell, lobby area, and communal balconies) causing nuisance, intimidation, harassment, alarm or distress or using or dealing drugs directly or indirectly causing damage or other anti-social behaviour. For the purposes of this PSPO the term “loitering” shall include (without prejudice to the generality of its ordinary meaning) the actions of standing sitting, or lingering (i) aimlessly or without an obvious reason; or (ii) for the purpose of begging, drug taking, or drug dealing.
- Any person in possession of an open vessel(s) of alcohol / intoxicating liquor in a public place
- Any person sitting or loitering on the highway or any pedestrian area of the restricted area demanding or begging or perceived to be begging by an authorised person for money or any other item, whether placing any item before them for receipt of money or otherwise.
- Any person fly-posting (including the unlawful affixing of any placard, notice or sign to street furniture) or any person permitting and / or benefitting from such fly-posting.
- Any person using a skateboard, bicycle, scooter, skates or any other self-propelled wheeled vehicle in such a manner as to cause damage to property or that causes or is likely to cause intimidation, harassment, alarm, distress, nuisance or annoyance to any person.