The Public Spaces Protection Order (No.1B) (Rother District Council) Order 2024 makes it an offence not to clear up after your dog on any public area in the parish, not to have your dog on a lead in the Recreation Ground, or to take a dog into the enclosed children’s playground.
Please be a responsible dog owner.
The Parish Council provides and pays for emptying of 9 dog waste bins in the village:
- Recreation Ground car park
- Bishops Meadow entrance
- Jubilee Garden in Station Road
- Langham Road junction with Knelle Road
- The Clappers – start of footpath 16a which leads down between the cricket pitch and Rother Valley Railway
- Church Lane – roundabout end, under the trees
- outside Salehurst Church, at the start of the public footpath
- Top of Fair Lane before the footbridge over the A21
- George Hill at the junction with the Bishops Lane cut-through.
Dog waste can also be disposed of at home in your black household waste bin.
You must clean up after your dog in all publicly owned open spaces and highways except woodlands, marsh and agricultural land. Dog owners who fail to comply can be prosecuted (maximum fine £2500) or issued with a fixed penalty notice of £100.
On 18th March 2026 a new law took effect which means dogs must be kept under control around livestock. Unlimited fines and stronger enforcement will take effect under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Act 2025.
