a guide to improving your local environment - Keep Britain Tidy

• The Secretary of State, for any trunk road that is a
special road and any other relevant highway or
road for which he or she is responsible.
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All bodies with this duty should inform the public about
procedures for making a formal complaint and the right
to seek redress in the courts if the prescribed standards
are not met.
Private Land Owners
• If privately owned land is littered, the owner is
responsible for clearing the litter. Sections 92A to 92C
EPA 1990 give local authorities the power to serve
Litter Clearing Notices to get areas cleaned up
What can be done if a duty to keep land clear
of litter and refuse is not complied with
Making a complaint about litter and refuse –
Litter Abatement Orders
(EPA 1990, s.91)
This section provides for individuals and organisations
(but not principal litter authorities) to take action, via the
Magistrates’ Courts, against those not complying with the
duty to keep land clear of litter and refuse, or highways
clean. If the Magistrates’ Court concludes that the
complaint is well founded it may issue a Litter Abatement
Order requiring the person complained against to clear or
clean the land.
LITTER
Enforcing the requirement for duty bodies to keep land
clear of litter and refuse – Litter Abatement Notices
(EPA 1990, s.92)
This section enables local authorities to take action
where a duty body is failing to keep its relevant land clear
of litter and refuse. The power to issue a Litter
Abatement Notice is available to principal litter
authorities, other than county councils, and may be used
where any relevant Crown land, or land of a designated
statutory undertaker, or educational institution,
is defaced by litter or refuse, or the defacement is likely
to recur.
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