A BURNLEY councillor has urged the council to provide more dog fouling bins to help encourage pet owners to be more responsible.

Councillor Margaret Lishman had asked for more bins in her Briercliffe ward, but was told that the money would have to come from the £10,000 grant allocated to each ward in the borough to fund small community projects.

At a meeting of the full council, she said: "We give out fixed penalty notices to people caught allowing their dogs to foul in public places, but we need to encourage people to use the bins and we need to get more bins out there to do that.

"But telling us that if we want bins we have to pay for them out of community funding is pretty unhelpful.

"We have to have a strategy about how to deal with these things. This is part of helping residents to become more responsible."

A report to the council stated that in January and February this year 16 fixed penalty notices had been issued to people ordering them to pay £50 for not scooping up their dog's mess.

The report also stated that the number of fixed penalty notices was set to increase a community wardens and police community beat managers were trained to hand them out to offending pet owners.