Creating better environments
Anti-social behaviour
Environmental crime
Environmental crime has a huge impact on our communities and on how happy we are in them. It can ruin public spaces and is expensive to clean up.
Environmental crime can include:
- fly-tipping - dumping household or commercial rubbish in private or communal areas
- littering - deliberately dropping litter on the streets
- graffiti - spray-painting or otherwise marking private property or communal areas like the sides of bus-shelters and houses
- vandalism - damaging private property or communal facilities like telephone boxes or play-ground equipment
What's we're doing about environmental crime
We're working with the police and local authorities to combat this kind of anti-social behaviour.
Measures we've put in place include:
- giving local authorities more power - to take action against fly-tippers and vandals
- restricting sale of spray paint - it's an offence for retailers to sell spray paint to anyone under the age of 16
What you can do
It's really important to report anti-social behaviour (new window) whenever it occurs, as there is now a lot the police can do to help.
So get in touch, and you'll start getting the help you need.
