New ON-Leash Area Shocks Locals

​In a shock move, the Council Administrator decreed at his last Council meeting, that Manly Lagoon would be on-leash on weekends & holidays. This has caused a major back-lash by dog owners because the area had been off-lease for more than sixty years. 

Local dog owners and their dogs are upset by the sudden ban on dogs off-leash at Manly Lagoon. Photo Adam Yip, Manly Daily

Hundreds of dog owners are looking to the new Council to reinstate the off-leash area, with the ManlyDogs group being proactive in seeking the reversal.

Prior to the Council election executive members of ManlyDogs convened a meeting of candidates for the Northern Beaches Council and sought their support in having the ban reversed.

Candy Bingham of Good For Manly, who has been working alongside ManlyDogs for some years, supported the reversal, as did Pat Daley & David Walton of the Liberals, Sarah Grattan and Michael Regan of Your Northern Beaches and  Madeleine Charles of The Greens.

It is expected the matter will be discussed at the first appropriate meeting of the new Council.