Dog Waste Bag Dispensers
Published: 15 August 2025
The Parish Council provided these recently at several locations in Anlaby and Anlaby Common, on the back of suggestions from local residents.
They seemed a sensible idea to help our local dog walkers when they, or more accurately their dogs, are ‘caught short’ and had either forgotten to take bags or needed more than they had taken. The aim being to reduce the amount of dog mess left on our pavements, which is a problem we often get reports about and is an offence.
These are funded by you via the Council Tax, as everything the Parish Council does is. Also, as any dog walker knows, the cost is tiny per bag and it seemed a good use of your money as a general public service, with the dispensers being replenished at no cost by the Parish Councillors in their own time.
Unfortunately, it seems that selfish individuals are taking hundreds of these bags at a time. We’re not clear how so many bags can be used as many of the dispensers are often being emptied within hours of being filled. Therefore, in the short time we have had these in place we have used literally thousands of bags.
The Parish Council has now decided that the situation will be monitored for another month, as we have a quantity of bags still to be used. But, if the current consumption rate continues, use of the waste bag dispensers will be discontinued and the dispensers will be removed.
This is because the Parish Council do not think this clear abuse of a free service is a good use of the public funds you provide as local residents and that the majority of our residents, who are not dog walkers, should be funding it.