Does Leeds have a dog control order?

Yes. Public Spaces Protection Order No. 1 of 2025 runs from 24 March 2025 to 23 March 2028 and creates 768 places where a rule applies, such as a lead in a cemetery or no dogs in a fenced play area. Read 30 July 2026.

Does Wakefield have a dog order?

No. All five orders in force were read line by line on 10 August 2026 and dogs appear in none of them. The fixed penalty on the council's fouling page is general litter law, not an order with a map.

Which Yorkshire councils' dog rules can the app not yet map?

Doncaster, Rotherham and East Riding. Each has an order that restricts dogs, and the boundaries are either unpublished or not yet placed, so a walk there says the rules are unknown rather than absent.

26 September 2026

Dogs on leads in Yorkshire: what every council's dog order says

Six Yorkshire councils have a dog control order with places we have mapped, three have orders we read that say nothing about dogs, and three have orders we could not yet place. Here is what each says, with the date we read it.

A cocker spaniel on a short lead on a gravel path between headstones in a town cemetery

Every council in England can make a public spaces protection order, and a dog control order is one of them. It is the law that says where your dog must be on a lead, where dogs are not allowed at all, and where you must pick up. Most councils publish theirs as a PDF, some as a map, and a few as a phone number to ring for a copy.

We read the orders for every council in Yorkshire, because we have to know where a lead is the law before it shows you a walk. Here is what each one says, as of the date we read it. Orders run out and get renewed, so check the council's own page before you rely on any of this, and look for the signs on the ground.

Yorkshire's councils, coloured by what our register held on 26 September 2026. Council outlines from the Office for National Statistics and county boundaries from Ordnance Survey, both under the Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

West Yorkshire

Leeds has one order, Public Spaces Protection Order No. 1 of 2025, in force from 24 March 2025 to 23 March 2028. It creates 768 separate places where a rule applies. Read 30 July 2026. Leeds City Council, dog control.

Bradford has a composite order made on 16 May 2024, in force until 16 May 2027, with 1,407 places. Read 30 July 2026. Bradford Council, dog control orders.

Kirklees has the most detailed order in Yorkshire: 2,825 places across eleven kinds of restriction, signed 1 August 2025 and running from 1 July 2025 to 1 July 2028. Read 30 July 2026. Kirklees Council, dog fouling and control.

Calderdale has five orders rather than one: fouling, leads, leads when asked, exclusion, and a maximum number of dogs per person, together making 1,958 places, running 2025 to 2028. Read 30 July 2026. Calderdale Council, dogs.

Wakefield has no dog order at all. We read all five orders in force line by line on 10 August 2026, four of them scans with no text layer, and dogs appear in none of them. The council's fouling page quotes a fixed penalty, but that is general litter law, not an order with a map. Wakefield Council, PSPOs.

South Yorkshire

Sheffield has no dog order. Its only order covers the city centre and is about alcohol, begging and loitering. Read 30 July 2026. Sheffield City Council, PSPOs.

Barnsley has a borough-wide order dated 25 November 2024, in force from 1 April 2025 to 1 April 2028. It creates exactly two kinds of place: dogs on a lead in every cemetery, 47 of them, and no dogs in fenced children's play areas, 166 of them. Fouling, carrying a bag, and putting a dog on a lead when an officer asks apply everywhere. Read 30 July 2026. Barnsley Council, dog control.

Doncaster has had a city-wide order since 2017, renewed since. Dogs are excluded from enclosed play areas and must go on a lead when asked. We have not yet been able to map it, because the council's pages refuse automated requests and the order needs downloading by hand. Read 30 July 2026. City of Doncaster Council, dog control.

Rotherham has two orders: borough-wide fouling from 29 January 2025, and a town centre and Clifton Park order from 15 January 2025 requiring a lead. The boundaries exist only as maps in the schedules and are not published; the council asks you to phone for a signed copy. So we cannot yet place them, and says so. Read 30 July 2026. Rotherham Council, dog control.

North Yorkshire and York

North Yorkshire has one dog order, and it covers only the former Scarborough Borough: 72 places from the council's own map service, 18 where dogs are banned and 54 where they must be on a lead. Six of them are seasonal, from 1 May to 30 September. Inland, the council's own report says restrictions are covered by byelaws rather than an order, which means the rest of the county is not free of rules; it is covered by rules we do not yet hold. Read 20 August 2026. North Yorkshire Council, PSPOs.

York has a citywide order in force from 1 June 2025 to 1 June 2028. It covers fouling and a duty to keep your dog under proper control, which the order defines by behaviour rather than by place. There is no map because there are no zones. Read 20 August 2026. City of York Council, PSPOs.

East Riding and Hull

East Riding of Yorkshire has 168 orders, one per parish, with leads required at certain cemeteries, churchyards and promenades in summer. It is the largest single job in Yorkshire and we have not mapped it yet. Read 30 July 2026. East Riding of Yorkshire Council, dog control and ownership.

Hull has no dog order. Its one order, sealed 20 March 2025, is about alcohol, begging and a return ban from the city centre; dogs appear nowhere in it. Read 19 August 2026. Hull City Council, PSPO.

What this means on a walk

Where a council has an order and we have mapped it, a walk in We say whether it crosses a place where dogs must be on a lead or are not allowed. Where a council has no order, the walk says the council was checked and has none. Where an order exists and we could not place it, the walk says that, too, rather than staying silent. Silence would look like permission, and none of these councils has given it.

Questions this answers

Does Leeds have a dog control order?: Yes. Public Spaces Protection Order No. 1 of 2025 runs from 24 March 2025 to 23 March 2028 and creates 768 places where a rule applies, such as a lead in a cemetery or no dogs in a fenced play area. Read 30 July 2026.
Does Wakefield have a dog order?: No. All five orders in force were read line by line on 10 August 2026 and dogs appear in none of them. The fixed penalty on the council's fouling page is general litter law, not an order with a map.
Which Yorkshire councils' dog rules can the app not yet map?: Doncaster, Rotherham and East Riding. Each has an order that restricts dogs, and the boundaries are either unpublished or not yet placed, so a walk there says the rules are unknown rather than absent.