EPA letter from council re. cigarette end

Coveredinbees!!!!

babyshoes wrote: »

OP, if your son can't remember if he did actually drop a cigarette end from his car or not, that to me implies that it is something he is in the habit of doing

Exactly, if someone accused me I would be 100% sure I hadn't done it as I don't throw stuff out my window. Pay up and stop doing it, simple.

vaio

molerat wrote: »

An interesting view on the subject http://www.cieh.org/ehp/ehp3.aspx?id=8314 seems to be of the opinion that the council have no authority to demand the information from the RK although s19(2) gives the LA pretty open ended powers.

That seems to me to be local government workers arguing for even more powers despite, as you say, s19 already covering perfectly well.

It’s been a common failing in the legislation process over the last fifteen years, knee jerk, badly drafted micromanaging crack downs with new ever more draconian laws being passed for problems that are already perfectly well covered by existing legislation.

This pleases the ones who don’t think about it as who would be against a law against terrorism or knives or child abusers, but it’s ignoring the fact that we’ve had perfectly good (and generally better drafted) laws against all three for donkeys years.