Places to walk dogs off lead?

tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Git told by a guy today that he was fined for letting his dog off lead near the pond at the bottom of Eccleshall Road cemetery as it enters the marshes. Can't see any signs, but guessing if he got fined there must be some?

Which got me thinking of other places I walk them off lead. Is the common OK? The Isabel trail?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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tek-monkey said:
Thanks. Definitely no sign the route we go in from the isobel trail but no idea on the road entrances. Whilst we stick to the field rather than the graves we do go up there to get water.
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Even the sign in the picture is not conclusive, but it is a few years ago.

The link to dog control orders in that article is dead now and a cursory search found no available information currently - who knows.

Given the location you describe, I would suspect that it is a specific graveyard issue.
 
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gilesjuk

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There's signs on the entrance to doxey from the car park end about keeping dogs on leads. It's obviously due to the risk of them getting into trouble or attacking the wildlife.

Mine is always on a lead, I don't see how anyone can truly know what's going on with their dog if it's running around like mad, even more so with the people who have about four that I see over the chase sometimes. It accounts for all the mess I see when walking. It annoys me because some will assume it is my dog if it looks fresh.
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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No dogs off lead areas come under the Borough Council's Public Space Protection Order (PSPO): https://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/pspo
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kyoto49

kyoto49

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As a regular dog walker in the cemetery I would think this applies more to the side with graves that are new and therefore visited by relatives etc so I'm surprised he got fined near the pond. The side of the cemetery close to the marshes has a large grassy area used by most dog walkers off lead, although I think technically it says somewhere dogs should be on the lead. What time of day was he caught, do you know?

The only place categorically off lead is allowed is in a field in the middle of the marshes towards the back of the lake/ poultney drive houses. It is signed 'dogs off lead'. The rest of the marshes is on lead but if your dogs stay on the path I don't see an issue on or off lead. It's the off lead dogs that run through the areas with ground nesting birds that are the issue I believe.

Think the Common and lines are fine
 
Theresa Green

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kyoto49 said:
As a regular dog walker in the cemetery I would think this applies more to the side with graves that are new and therefore visited by relatives etc so I'm surprised he got fined near the pond. The side of the cemetery close to the marshes has a large grassy area used by most dog walkers off lead, although I think technically it says somewhere dogs should be on the lead. What time of day was he caught, do you know?

The only place categorically off lead is allowed is in a field in the middle of the marshes towards the back of the lake/ poultney drive houses. It is signed 'dogs off lead'. The rest of the marshes is on lead but if your dogs stay on the path I don't see an issue on or off lead. It's the off lead dogs that run through the areas with ground nesting birds that are the issue I believe.

Think the Common and lines are fine
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Not Pulteney ( Bishop of Bath and Wells ) but Oulton Way , actually
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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This is the sign as you leave the lines to go in to the active side of the cemetery.
 

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