Issue - meetings
Managing Street Drinking and Identified Problem Areas – Pilot Programme
Meeting: 13/03/2017 - Cabinet (Item 10)
10 Managing Street Drinking and Identified Problem Areas – Pilot Programme 
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This report recommends that Cabinet authorises consultation on the introduction of six Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) pilot schemes to prohibit street drinking in identified hotspot areas referred to in paragraph 3.7.
The pilot outcome will help inform the decision making to continue or discontinue Brent borough wide controlled drinking areas which will cease at the end of October 2017.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED:
10.1 Cabinet authorised consultation on the introduction of six Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) pilot schemes to prohibit street drinking in identified hotspot areas referred to in paragraph 3.7 of the Managing Street Drinking and Identified Problem Areas – Pilot Programme Report.
10.2 Cabinet noted that the pilot outcome would help inform the decision making to continue or discontinue Brent borough wide controlled drinking areas which will cease at the end of October 2017.
Minutes:
Councillor Tom Miller, Cabinet Member for Stronger Communities, introduced the report. He stated that Brent Community Safety Service implemented a borough wide Controlled Drinking Zone (CDZ), allowing local authorities to designate public areas through the introduction of Designated Public Places Orders (DPPO).
A CDZ pilot had been implemented on Kilburn High Road from 1 July- 31 December 2006 to deal with persistent issues of street drinking along the High Road. As a result of the successful pilot, a Borough Wide CDZ was enacted on 15 December 2007 for the duration of 10 years and is due to expire in October 2017.
Councillor Miller stated that Brent has identified 12 drinking hot spot areas and the new approach allows for an effective policing plan in those problem areas to be implemented. The current Borough Wide approach has not resulted in a reduction in our drinking hot spots over the years.
RESOLVED:
10.1 Cabinet authorised consultation on the introduction of six Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) pilot schemes to prohibit street drinking in identified hotspot areas referred to in paragraph 3.7 of the Managing Street Drinking and Identified Problem Areas – Pilot Programme Report.
10.2 Cabinet noted that the pilot outcome would help inform the decision making to continue or discontinue Brent borough wide controlled drinking areas which will cease at the end of October 2017.