Auckland Council has voted to adopt changes to the dog access bylaws.

The bylaws were an update on the original 2012 bylaw and aimed to streamline the rules across all of Auckland.

Dog owners were upset by the initial proposal, which suggested adopting a definition of the time and season rules to exclude dogs from some areas between 10am to 7pm across all of Auckland.

The proposal would have impacted 150 areas in Auckland that used the time and season restrictions, but not the 2500 parks beaches and reserves where dogs are allowed off-leash at any time.

Council has now voted to define the time and season exclusion across Auckland as 10am to 5pm from December 1 to March 1.

The rules will only apply to areas which currently use time and season to manage the hours dogs can access an area.

Previous time and season rules varied across Auckland and ranged from the beginning between 5am and 10am and ending between 4pm and 9pm.

The Hibiscus and Bays local board was previously the only one that used the definition of 10am and 5pm.

The Council's Governing Body voted on the change on Friday, July 25 and approved it unanimously.

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