Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers are available to local authorities to require (a) organisations and (b) individuals to (i) clear and (ii) tidy industrial sites where anti-social behaviour is having a detrimental effect on local residents.

The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police and local authorities with a range of flexible powers that they can use to tackle anti-social and nuisance behaviour.

This includes the Community Protection Notice which can be used by police, councils and designated housing providers to stop anti-social behaviour by individuals or businesses, that is having a detrimental effect on the community’s quality of life. A Community Protection Notice can include requirements to stop causing the nuisance and/ or to do specified things to ‘make good’. It is for local agencies to decide when it is appropriate to make use of these powers.