Several complaints have been made verbally to individual councillors, by letter, on the Impact Team Walkabout, and to the Environmental group regarding one specific problem.  The one subject that causes your neighbours the most concern is your dogs’ mess being left on the pavement and playing fields.  The Council goes to great lengths to install Dog Bins, and empty them, all bar a few pick up their dogs mess and put it in the bin. Mums walking their kids to school, ramblers walking along the Timberland Trail and local residents walking their families have all managed to walk in, push buggies through your dogs mess.  Please don’t think we are talking about everyone here, we are not.   There are an estimated 400 Dogs in Tankersley and Pilley.

This newsletter page is aimed just at the one or two owners in this area who continue to let their dogs foul the footpaths, especially Colliery Yard, the snicket between the Avenue and Lidgett Lane and New Road from Pilley down to the school, where the Mums with Kids and buggies get their shoes and wheels clogged up with the mess you are not man enough to pick it up.  We have spoken to witnesses who have seen various residents, but luckily for you they will do not want to make an official complaint against you as they are your neighbours.  So please, you know who you are, it’s morally wrong, and its legally wrong so please stop it.  We have asked Environmental Services in Barnsley Council to keep an eye on this, and they have sent someone along to go and clean up after your dog.  If, or when, you are caught you will be and your punishment will be a fine up to £1000, and your name will be made public by the court.