Issue - meetings

To seek Cabinet approval on the updated Pets Policy.

The Council allowed tenants and leaseholders to keep pets in their properties and for tenants, there were clauses in the tenancy agreement that set out the need for tenants to request permission to keep pets and also how the Council would manage the tenancy in this respect. The Policy provided a framework for the types of pets that were permissible by the Council and what additional measures or enquiries that tenants were required to undertake for the request to be approved. It was clarified that current owners of XL Bully dogs would not be affected but new XL Bully dogs would not be permitted for Council tenants.

RESOLVED that the Pets Policy be approved.

Reason

The Policy also provides clarification on what measures the Council will take should a pet be kept without permission and what actions the Council will take should pets become a nuisance and their continued ownership becomes an issue at the property or in the community.