Cornwall Council St Clare, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 3QW Tel: 0300 1234 100 Website: www.cornwall.gov.uk District Beach Guide For Dog Owners DOG CONTROL ORDERS 01 / 2007 - 08 / 2007 Porthgwidden Bamaluz Beach Porthmeor St Ives Harbour DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED ON THESE BEACHES Clodgy Point Lambeth Walk Hor Point Godrevy BETWEEN THE HOURS 8 A.M. & 7 P.M. Gwithian St Ives: Porthmeor, Porthgwidden, Harbour, Porthminster. Mexico ST. IVES Upton Carbis Bay. Riviera Hayle Towans (from Hayle river to Black Cliffs). Porthminster Hayle Towans Godrevy (to Red River). Carbis Bay Gwithian (Red River to Ceres Rock). Portheras Cove HAYLE Marazion. Porthkidney Sands Penzance Promenade (to Lariggan River). Mousehole (including harbour). Porthcurno. Porthchapel (dogs above high tide line only) Cape Corn wall Porthgwarra. (Priests Cove) Long Rock Sennen (including harbour). Eastern Green MARAZION ST. JUST Perranuthnoe. PorthnavenPorthnaven PENZANCE Progo Wherrytown DOGS ARE ALLOWED Marazion NEWLYN ON THESE BEACHES Gwenver Penzance Prome nade Sandy Cove Roskilly St Ives / Hayle Area: Hor Point, Clodgy Point, Sennen Cove MOUSEHOLE Perranuthnoe Bamaluz Beach, Lambeth Walk, Porthkidney (including Har bour) Mousehole (including Har bour) Sands, Riviera, Mexi co, Upton Towans. LAND’S END Salt Ponds Penzance / Mousehole Area: Eastern Green, Wherrytown (Lariggan River to Newlyn), Sandy PORTHCURNO Cove, Roskilly, Salt Ponds. NanjizelNanjizel Land’s End Area: Pednevounder, Nanjizel, Pednevounder THESE RESTRICTIONS Gwenver, Progo, Porthnaven, Cape Cornwall, Porthcurno APPLY FROM Portheras Cove. Porthgwarra Porthchapel 1ST MAY TO 30TH SEPTEMBER Responsible Dog Ownership may be liable to pay a charge set by central Most offenders are dealt with by issuing a Fixed Government. Penalty Notice. As a responsible dog owner you need to be At present the charges are: Fines at present are: aware that, by law, you must do the following things. • Dog Recovery - £36.00. • Fixed Penalty Notice of £80.00 • Under The Control Of Dogs Order 1992 • Kennel Fees - £11.50 (per day or part day) (if this remains unpaid after 14 days) your dog MUST wear an ID tag bearing • Prosecution may result in fi nes of up to owner details on its collar at all times when Microchipping is a permanent way to identify £1000.00 in a public place. your dog. (A Microchip does not negate this, but The Council has successfully fi ned and prosecuted (A microchip is injected under the skin of the people who fail to clean up after their dogs. serves as an additional and permanent way dog and carries a unique number sequence to identify your dog). which is stored against owner details on a Under the law no offence is committed if the national database). dog is trained by a prescribed charity or the • Under The Clean Neighbourhoods and landowner has given consent for the faeces to Environment Act 2005 you MUST clean In the event of injury or an accident occurring be left on the ground. up after your dog when it fouls in any whilst the dog is roaming. A Microchip allows public place including public and private vets to trace owners and obtain permission to beaches (right up to the low water mark). treat the dog. Dogs On Beaches • You MUST NOT let your dog out on its own at any time. If you lose or fi nd a dog or require any Under The Clean Neighbourhoods and advice please contact the Dog Welfare Environment Act, Dog Control Orders have • You MUST NOT allow your dog to bite or Service on 0300 1234 100 replaced the legislation that excluded dogs from frighten anyone and should have your dog certain beaches. under control when in a public place. These Control Orders run from 1st May until 30th Dog Fouling Please remember that not everyone is September and exclude dogs from the relevant comfortable with dogs and that even the most beaches (see overleaf) between the hours of 8 The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment well behaved dog can frighten some people, a.m until 7 p.m. Act 2005 allows the local authority to (or be deemed a danger to livestock if not on designate land to which this act applies. The local authority is now able to enforce a lead). breach of the Control Order by issuing Fixed (This includes, footpaths, playing fi elds, Penalty Notices to people. Stray Dogs grass verges, certain private land and roads). The Fixed Penalty Notices currently stand at £80 Under the Environmental Protection and if this remains unpaid prosecution may result (Stray Dogs) Regulations 1992 the local The Act states that being unaware of the in a maximum fi ne of £1000. authority has a duty to collect stray dogs. Any defecation or not having suitable means to remove the faeces are not reasonable excuses. owner wishing to reclaim a stray or lost dog Revised: 23 - 03 - 09.