Aberavon Beach Bye Laws
As part of the Aberavon Beach Seafront Regeneration Strategy, the Neath
Port Talbot County Borough Council intends to apply for a Seaside Award with
the view to ultimately applying for the Blue Flag Award, subject that is, to
water quality standards improving.
To achieve either of these awards, it is considered necessary to extend
the area of Aberavon Beach covered by the existing by-law prohibiting dogs
from May to September.
The existing bye-law does not cover the area from the slipway to end of
the promenade in the west. In the circumstances, the Council has resolved to
make a new bye-law to prohibit dogs between 1st May and 30th
September from that part of the beach lying between the breakwater at its
south eastern end and the end of the promenade in the west, during the
months of May to September inclusive.
It is proposed that the new bye-law will also contain a requirement that
dogs are kept on leads on all that part of the promenade lying immediately
adjacent to the proposed controlled beach area.
When the new proposed bye-law is made, the existing by-law will be
revoked. The area of Aberavon beach to the west of the end of the promenade
will be available for owners who wish to exercise their dogs during the
aforementioned period.
Copies of the existing and proposed bye-laws may be inspected at the
Council Offices at the Civic Centres in Port Talbot, Neath and Penllergaer
and the Afan Lido Leisure Centre, Afan Way, Aberavon.
The Authority is currently dealing with issues which were raised during
the recent consultation exercise and the matter will be progressed once
these have been resolved.
A further consultation exercise, which will be extensively advertised,
will be undertaken in the future following the lodging of the revised draft
byelaws with the Welsh Assembly Government.
Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards
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Last Updated: 25.02.2008 at 16:34