Hi peeps, this is the QR Code for our dog petition and our Leas Promenade Protect & Preserve Petition. Please keep it on your phone, saved as a photo, and when you chat to other dog owners and people interested in what is happening on the Leas who have smartphones, get them to sign our petitions, please. Tell them we don't need any donations and to ignore any such request from the petition Change.org site. Tell them they need to check their emails and junk folders to verify their signatures.
We are going to challenge Folkestone & Hythe District Council because they did not have a legitimate mandate from the people of Folkestone & Hythe District in bringing in their Dog Control Public Space Protection Order 2025. This decision was based on no proper public consultation and only 244 responses to their online consultation, which thousands of dog owners were unaware of. We have nearly doubled the signatures on our petition calling for a new, far-reaching public consultation, than the secretly carried out online consultation FHDC carried out only managed to obtain.
We believe there may be as many as 18,000 homes within the 50,000 households that have dogs in the district. Google suggests, up to 36% of homes in the UK have dogs, and we therefore demand that all households across the district are written to asking for their opinions in a postal survey. That is a fair and balanced democratically carried out public consultation.
FHDC in a Freedom of Information request, has admitted that their proposal was not even advertised by them in any district-wide local newspaper or on any local social media platform. They also admitted to not putting up any signage on the Leas, which we believe also meant they never did in many other places.
We cannot stand back and allow FHDC to enforce robustly an unfair and unjustified Dog Control Public Space Protection Order when they do not enforce their anti-social behaviour Public Space Protection Order or public Bylaws equitably.
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This has been a cruel injustice carried out by an anti-dog Green Party in charge of a local authority on thousands of dogs and their owners, that forever ties a dog to its owner on its lead in almost every public park and garden in the district.