Improvement Plan

the necessary enforcement action proportionate to the offence. This can be from a written warning, fixed penalty notice or prosecution through the courts.

Usually during the winter months the team visit schools within the borough to carry out presentations on safety in parks called ‘The Parks Protection Roadshow’. This helps educate young people in the borough respect their parks and also protect themselves.

‘Parks Protection Roadshow’ presentation

The establishment of this service has meant Havering Council is able to address crime and anti-social behaviour in our parks. An example of previous effective team action is the reduction of motorbikes unlawfully using green spaces, causing risk of harm towards other parks users. The team have successfully deterred some riders from regularly entering our sites, meanwhile using their enforcement powers under Byelaws and related enactments to prosecute the worst offenders, removing those vehicles from causing further risk in parks. The Parks Protection Service, as a whole, has also taken a lead role in deterrence and engagement with travellers during unlawful incursions. On these occasions, the Team have ensured that Havering’s parks continue to be safe for the public to use, reducing serious littering, deterring organised fly tipping and other anti-social behaviour, ensuring their stay is kept to a minimum timescale, in close liaison with the Havering Council Planning Team.