FOI release

FPN's

Case reference FOI2026/00081

Received 15 January 2026

Published 27 January 2026

Request

1. How many Fixed Penalty Notices have you issued each year since 2023? 2. Could you provide a breakdown of what offences have triggered FPNs each year since 2020, or at least since 2023? 3. How much do you charge per FPN for standard offences such as littering or flytipping? 4. Do you outsource your litter enforcement and if so for how much and who to? 5. How many Public Space Protection Orders have you implemented in the last five years, and for what?

Response

1.  How many Fixed Penalty Notices have you issued each year since 2023?

30

2.  Could you provide a breakdown of what offences have triggered FPNs each year since 2020, or at least since 2023?

2023 -8 fpns issued. 1 x fly tipping, 1 x failure to produced authority to transport waste, 1 x vehicle abandonment, 1 x failure to produce waste document, 1 x household waste 2 X for ASB and 1 X for ASB/Drug

2024 - 12 fpns issued  2 x failure to produce waste document, 1 x household duty of care, 1 x dog fouling, 6 x failure to produce authority to transport waste and 2 X for ASB

2025 – 10 fpns issued 4 x fly tipping, 2 x dogs off leads, 1 x failure to produce waste document 1 X for ASB 1 X for ASB/Drugs and 1 X for littering


  3.  How much do you charge per FPN for standard offences such as littering or flytipping?

Littering - £150, Flytipping - £400

Pay a fixed penalty notice


  4.  Do you outsource your litter enforcement and if so for how much and who to?

No
  5.  How many Public Space Protection Orders have you implemented in the last five years, and for what?

Information here Public Spaces Protection Orders

Documents

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This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.