Dogs on the beach
Dogs on Cornwall beaches
Where the council bans dogs from a beach, and when, taken from its own order. Each town below has the stretches in the order's words and today's answer.
Along the coast
- BudeNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- Widemouth BayNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- Crackington HavenNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- PolzeathNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- PadstowNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- NewquayNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- St AgnesNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- PorthtowanNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- PortreathNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- HayleDogs banned today on part of Carnsew Pool, Copperhouse Pool, Lelant Saltings and Ryan’s Field.
- Carbis BayNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- St IvesNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- SennenNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 15 May 2027.
- PorthcurnoNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- MouseholeNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- PenzanceNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- PerranuthnoeNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- Praa SandsNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- PorthlevenNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- MullionNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- The LizardNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- CadgwithNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- FalmouthNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- St MawesNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- PortscathoNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- MevagisseyNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- St AustellNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- FoweyNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- PortwrinkleNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
- CawsandNo ban today; the summer ban starts again on 1 July 2027.
From Cornwall Council's Dogs on Beaches Public Spaces Protection Order 2026, which runs until 12 April 2029. We read it on 30 September 2026.
Summerleaze beach at Bude, and Polruan's beaches from Easter to 1 October, are on a lead under a separate order that ends on 14 October 2026 with no renewal published yet, and the Isles of Scilly's order bans dogs from Old Town Beach by day in summer. We have not placed these, so they are not listed here.
What the orders say here
Cornwall Council has put 52 stretches of beach off limits to dogs, across 30 towns.
The seasons are 15 May to 30 September, 1 July to 31 August and all year, and 48 bans hold only at set hours of the day.
Each answer is worked out on the day, in UK time, from the order's own dates, so a ban that has not started or has ended says so. Where we have not placed an order on a beach, the page says that, and never reads silence as permission.