{"id":448389,"date":"2026-02-27T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448389\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:12:07","slug":"proposed-worthing-ban-on-feeding-birds-could-lead-to-1000-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448389\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Worthing ban on feeding birds could lead to \u00a31,000 fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neill Morton, who has lived in Worthing for four years, said it may help prevent the issue getting worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The seagulls can be a bit of a problem, but it hasn&#8217;t reached the same level as Brighton,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, fellow resident Tony Boyling said he had questioned a man feeding pigeons at a bus stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It brings in a lot of birds we don&#8217;t need to the area,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A PSPO would enable officers to issue fixed penalty notices of \u00a3100, or up \u00a31000 through the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Rosey Whorlow, Worthing&#8217;s cabinet member for community safety, said: &#8220;Our priority is to ensure Worthing remains a clean, safe and welcoming town centre for everyone, while also protecting the long-term wellbeing of local wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We encourage people to take part and have their say before any decision is made.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neill Morton, who has lived in Worthing for four years, said it may help prevent the issue getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-448389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}