No changes to dog rules order

AN ORDER requiring dog owners to pick up their pets’ mess and banning dogs from enclosed children’s play areas is to be renewed in Carmarthenshire.

- RICHARD YOULE Senior local democracy reporter

The public spaces protection order, as it’s known, also requires owners to put their dog on a lead when asked to do so by council officers when such restraint is reasonably necessary to prevent annoying or disturbing behaviour by the animal.

Carmarthenshire Council first introduced the order, which expires every three years, in 2016 and has renewed it twice since.

It consulted on the latest proposed renewal and said the vast majority of respondents supported another three-year extension.