Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005

On 1st April 2006 the sections of the Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, which relates to alley gates, came into force. This legislation amends The Highways Act 1980 with the insertion of sections 129a to 129F. This empowers the local authority to make a gating order where it can be shown that persistent crime and anti-social behaviour is expressly facilitated by the use of certain rights of way.

The act sets out the general principles, asserting that a council must be satisfied, before making an order, that the area surrounding the relevant highway suffers from crime or anti social behaviour and gating would act as a useful crime / anti-social behaviour reduction method.