Man compares Blackpool to living in China after council dishes out dog poo warning

A hotel owner handed a council warning letter amid a row over dog poo has compared the seaside town to 'the People's Republic of China'. Brendan O'Rourke runs Sunny Dee's Holiday Apartments on the Promenade.

He told LancsLive he was handed a 'mini ASBO' in August last year after being accused of not picking up his dog's mess outside his home.

He says the warning letter was based on 'false allegations' his dog, a Dobermann, had been leaving a mess in the alleyway behind the hotel. This letter consisted of a Community Protection Warning (CPW) issued by Lancashire Constabulary on behalf of Blackpool Council.

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The warning is issued to anyone who may be 'causing persistent detriment to the local area' before the decision to issue a CPN, or Community Protection Notice, is made.

Brendan says he was given the letter as a result of a fallout with someone living nearby, after a police officer turned up at his home to hand him the warning. Inside the CPW were two 'complaints' according to Brendan, the first regarding the argument with another resident and the second accusing him of not picking up his dog's faeces.

Brendan told LancsLive: "It absolutely infuriated me because I don't. I collect plastic off the beach, I've worked with the previous 'Love My Beach' organisation that was in Blackpool. I even picked up three lots of poo that was on the beach last night because it irritates me as the tide was coming in."

The hotel owner set out to challenge the CPW, saying he didn't leave the poo and was given the warning incorrectly.

He added: "I had to prove this maladministration against the council, that they had issued it