Fines were issued over the bank holiday amid a crackdown on fly camping in the Lake District.
Cumberland Council said its environmental crime team issued advice and fines to people in the Lake District over the weekend in a bid to tackle fly camping causing or likely to cause anti-social behaviour.
The crackdown comes after the council introduced a three-year long Public Spaces Protection Order in November, in a bid to address fly camping and anti-social behaviour damaging the environment.
Teams spoke with people in the area to remind them of the importance of being responsible and respectful in the region’s outdoor spaces and also issued fixed penalty notices to those in breach of the order.
Two fines of £100 each were issued in Lanthwaite and Rannerdale in response to anti-social behaviour.
Council teams patrolled these areas as part of a targeted response following a hotspot mapping exercise carried out with other involved organisations.
The Public Spaces Protection Order will remain in place for three years and gives the council’s civil enforcement team the power to issue fines to people caught fly camping or acting anti-socially in the Lake District.
As the order was only put in place in November, this is the first summer where it is being put to the test.
While Cumberland Council has put a protection order in place, Westmorland and Furness Council has confirmed that it currently has no plans to do the same.
Fly camping — not to be confused with wild camping — is when campers do not follow the rules of wild camping and when their planned pitch is not above the highest fell wall.
