Plan to give 300 more litter fine powers by Kirklees Council

Feb 13 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

He said: “There’s no excuse for littering and dog fouling, it runs the town down. The council have had the power for some time to deal with people who behave like that and I’d like to see them use these powers.”

Mr Coletta, who also runs Greenhead Park Cafe, would like park rangers to be given the power to issue fixed penalty notices as well.

He said: “They are obvious people to be given these powers, it would let them do their job properly.”

Mr Coletta said littering and dog fouling were problems in Greenhead Park.

He said: “We constantly get kids coming into the cafe who’ve been playing in the park and need to wash dog dirt off their hands. It’s not nice.

“Sometimes people empty the bins so they can move them to use as goalposts.”