Shepway District Council is the latest UK district to ban the release of balloons and Chinese sky lanterns on public land.
The move follows hot on the heels of similar bans which have been imposed across the UK in recent months and will come into force from January 2018.
The ban has been put into place in order to ‘help ease pollution and the danger to wildlife’.
The National Union of Farmers (NFU) and Owen Leyshon, a local nature expert, called the decision ‘tremendous news’.
A nationwide campaign led by the RSPCA and other organisations has sparked similar bans across roughly 62 local authorities.
Typically, if someone is caught flaunting the ban they will face a hefty fine and be dealt with similarly to littering offences.
