Car cruisers fined £2,000 for anti-social behaviour in Milton Keynes

The fines have all been levied since Milton Keynes Council introduced a special Public Space Protection Order earlier this year.

The order bans anti-social car cruising throughout the city and follows a public consultation in which over 1,000 residents said they’d been negatively affected by noise and disruption.

Anti-social car cruising behaviours includes excessive noise and driving at dangerous speeds. And the most popular venues are in and around CMK.

Most of the fined drivers, however, were not residents of Milton Keynes but had travelled from neighbouring areas, including Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire. Some had even travelled from Leicestershire and Kent.

MK Council works with Thames Valley Police to enforce the Public Space Protection Order. Money from the fines will support the work being done by the the council and police to tackle and prevent violent crime in MK.

An MK Council spokesman said: "In 2019, a five-year-old child in MK was taken to hospital after being hit by a driver participating in car cruising, and a number of people in Stevenage were seriously injured after being run over at an event."

He added: "Council officers have tried to engage with car cruising organisers to discuss how ‘car meets’ can be carried out safely and without causing a nuisance to local people.

Cabinet member for Community Safety, Councillor Lauren Townsend said: “I hope these strong statistics send a clear message to anybody taking part in anti-social car cruising in Milton Keynes. You can’t abuse our roads and put our residents’ safety at risk - you will be caught, and you will be fined.

“We want MK to be a safe place for everyone who lives, works and visits here. My thanks go out to council colleagues and partners for the work they do to keep us all safe.”