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Dog owners could be banned from taking their pets into a Bristol park - after a minority of them kept leaving their dog’s poo in the field.

South Street Park in Bedminster doubles up as the playing field for Compass Point Primary School, and Bristol Live reported in May last year the school had asked the council to consider action to stop lazy dog owners.

Now, in response, the council has began a formal consultation on a plan to ban dogs completely from the main playing fields area.

The council and the school, which bought the freehold for the park in 2007, said efforts to tell dog owners to pick up after their pets had failed.

The new order would effectively re-classify South Street Park’s playing fields as a children’s play area, and therefore all dogs would be banned entirely under a Public Space Protection Order, even if they are on a lead.

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There is a smaller separate, fenced off ‘bark park’ area in another corner of the park, where dogs are allowed and can be let off the lead, which would not be affected.

“The school, parents and local residents are concerned about the safety and health consequences of dogs being exercised in the field,” a spokesperson for Bristol City Council said.

“The school has raised concerns that increasingly dogs are being exercised in the playing field, sometimes off the lead and that dog faeces are not always picked up.

“Also that, even when cleared, there may be residue of faeces or urine which could present a risk to the school children using the field from parasites and bacterial infection such as Toxocara, Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Campylobacter to which young children are particularly vulnerable,” he added.

If the council goes ahead with the order, after the consultation ends, dog owners would be fined £100 for taking their dogs into the main park.

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