CPNs and PSPOs
Case reference FOI2026/00129
Received 23 January 2026
Published 29 January 2026
Request
CPNs
1. Please state the number of Community Protection Notices (CPNs) issued by your authority in the periods:
a. November 2023-October 2024;
b. November 2024-October 2025.
Please also state the number of Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) issued within these periods.
2. If possible, please state the subject of these CPNs/CPWs - for example, by providing the texts, or stating the subject matter of the orders (e.g. Litter, waste, ASB).
3. Please state the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued for the offence of breach of CPN between November 2024-October 2025.
Please state the offences for which these FPNs were issued.
PSPOs
4. Please state the number of Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) currently live within your authority.
5. Please provide a link to the PSPO texts online.
If no link is available, please attach the PSPO texts.
6. Please state the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued for the offence of violating a PSPO in the following calendar years:
- a. 2024
- b. 2025
7. Where possible, please state the offences for which these PSPO FPNs were issued (eg begging, alcohol, dog control, dispersal).
8. Please state whether these PSPO FPNs were issued by a private company (Y/N). If so, please state the name of the company.
Response
1, 2, 3 - see attached spreadsheet.
4. We have ten active PSPO's
5. https://tunbridgewells.gov.uk/community-and-leisure/communitysafety/public-spaces-protection-orders
6. None
7. Information Not Held
8. Information Not Held
Documents
This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.