Enforcement is necessary to protect and improve the physical
quality of the places in which we live, work, invest and/or
visit. Keep Britain Tidy fully supports the use of enforcement
measures to improve local environmental quality (LEQ) and reduce
anti-social behaviour (ASB). However, enforcement should only be
used where it is necessary and as part of a wider campaign to
raise awareness of the issues affecting LEQ and provide the
public with the means to change their behaviour. - Over the last
ten years, the amount of enforcement used to improve LEQ has
increased. However, it has evolved in an ad hoc manner with few
formal structures in place to monitor consistency and standards.
Keep Britain Tidy would like to see local authorities and other
land managers make full and better use of the powers available
to them, and believe the following recommendations will go some
way towards facilitating this. - The public to play a greater
role in ensuring that local authorities comply with their
statutory duty to keep