At the end of last week, domestic furniture and junk appeared outside a house in Lower Galdeford. Around the sound time, household goods were dumped on the Eco Park. There is good reason to believe that these two incidents are linked. I have asked Shropshire Council to investigate with a view to prosecution. I would […]
Tag: fly tipping
Are all fly-tipping incidents in Shropshire being reported? Probably not
Fly-tipping in Shropshire was down a little last year but the overall trend is no change. Over the last five years, reported incidents have averaged 1,400 a year, mostly on the highways and mostly domestic rubbish. Over the same period, Shropshire Council spend £500,000 cleaning up and taking action. There were only two prosecutions and […]
Shropshire still not getting fly-tipping under control – you can help by reporting incidents
The good news is that fly-tipping in Shropshire is going down. The latest statistics show an 11% year-on-year fall in reports of fly-tipping in the unitary council area, much better than the 3% fall in the rest of England. It’s not all good news unfortunately. The number of incidents is still higher than five years […]
Time for Shropshire to come clean on why fly-tipping is growing and the costs of clearing it up are soaring
For several years fly-tipping has declined. Now it’s rapidly rising. Here in Shropshire, the number of fly-tipping incidents is rising faster than the rest of England. And the cost of clearing up the mess in this county has shot up by a third. Around the country, local authorities dealt with a total of 852,000 incidents […]
Network Rail can’t mow grass and pick up litter at the same time!
Its bank holiday weekend, and I am ashamed of how dirty our town has become. Fly-tipping is growing after the Coder Road recycling centre was shut down despite overwhelming opposition to the move. In recent days, we’ve had a pile of fly-tipped debris removed from Back Lane between the Racecourse and Onibury. But anything dumped […]