REVEALED: How many fines for Dog Muck have Labour issued in 2 years? 

• Labour-run Liverpool City Council has issued 37 fines for dog fouling since May 2023.
• Lib Dem Leader calls for more to be done as it’s not good enough.
• Cllr Carl Cashman: “Residents are shocked when their council tax goes up each year but Labour can’t get the basics right”

A question at full council tabled by Lib Dem Leader Councillor Carl Cashman has revealed that only 37 fines have been issued for dog fouling out of 1436 complaints made since May 2023.

In the same time period 2036 complaints about overflowing bins have been made to the council - that's over 20 per week!

The Lib Dems have said this is just further evidence that Labour is failing to keep our city clean and leaving it tarred with the moniker “Litterpool”. The Lib Dem Leader has pledged that if his party ran the council they’d make cleaning up the city.

Cllr Cashman recently joined staff and local residents for a litter pick at KFC on Great Homer Street and afterwards spoke about the important role community groups have across the city in keeping their areas clear but was clear that Labour had let residents down by letting it get out of control across the city. 

Cllr Carl Cashman, Leader of the Opposition said:

“The council gets an average of two complaints about dog muck per day but less that 3% of them result in a fine - that’s appalling. It’s as though they’ve essentially legalised dog fouling - that Labour’s message, you don’t have to pick up your dog muck because we can’t be bothered to fine you. 

“I’m a dog owner, I know it’s never fun picking up dog muck but it’s an important part of being a responsible dog owner. We need to have a preventative approach - that means bins emptied regularly, signage reminding people to pick up dog muck, and dog poop bag dispensers for those walkers caught short or simply forgotten.”

“The Lib Dems-run Liverpool will work hard for residents - getting the basics right and keeping our city clean.”