Responses to Consultation on Fly Tipping in East Dorset
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Appendix 1 Responses to Consultation on Fly Tipping in East Dorset No of incidents Types of waste left* Cost of removal Problem Hotspots Suggestions on how fly tipping could be overcome increasing decreasing or staying the same? Alderholt 10 or so Garden waste Not known Increasing Drove End and Somerley Car The rural part of the Parish has commercial fly tipping on a regular mattresses Parks, Daggons Road, basis about once a month on average (garden waste, builders bin bags Outside Village Hall, waste and old tyres ). This has not changed for years. The hot spot builders rubble West End of Cheaters Lane, for this is in the Broxhill area , this is on a through road, so they can old TV B3078 between Church and go in one end and out the other and there is very little traffic on this tyres Broxhill, Opposite 44 Station road. fridges Road, Gateway at junction of B3081 Since the new recycling has been in place, we have seen a with Broxhill, Verge just past increase in the number of black bags with house hold waste. This I Hillbury Park have picked up and put in my own bin if it is small, or large amounts Groundwise, Railway Bridge, I have reported to DWP. The people who do this like the quite Sandleheath Road. through road as they only have to pull over and put the bags out. Since the new wheelie bins bed mattress have increased. With the old waste collection it would be collected. There is also a new lot of fly tipping ! Fast food waste cups, boxes, cartons and bags. This is only small amounts but in increasing numbers all year round There is and has been for year a lot of garden waste the is dumped in hedges and gate ways ( lawn mowings and leaves) this just rots away over time The fly tippers love county through road !!!! ------------------------------------------------------ We have had two incidents of fly tipping in Sandleheath Rd over the last year or so. 1. a fridge was left on the island outside the village pond, at the time the road was being dug up for a new water main and the contractors very kindly agreed to dispose of it for us. 2. a few sacks of rubbish were deposited by the old railway bridge, I found an address on a couple of items and phoned the council giving the details and advising I had an address. After much persuasion the sent out a couple of chaps in a open backed vehicle to collect. I showed them the evidence suggesting this should all be recorded and action taken against the householder (Fordingbridge resident), they said it was a waste of time, threw it all in the back and drove off. No of incidents Types of waste left* Cost of removal Problem Hotspots Suggestions on how fly tipping could be overcome increasing decreasing or staying the same? Colehill No detailed Beds, mattresses, Unknown. I believe My perception Colehill Lane. Parish Council Public information regarding the environmental hazards of dumping information other furniture, paint this is logged by - going back owned woodland and ponds garden waste into woodland - e.g proliferation of invasive species cans, green waste, Paul Pendray for over 15 years near the Church and Co-Op and plant disease. vehicle parts, DWP and costed - is that it has (mostly garden waste and Better inspection and control of untaxed vehicles on housing Christmas Trees. according to a been Christmas trees). association property. This has been made more difficult by the Recent reports of government decreasing. District Council managed land obsolescence of the tax disk. vehicle parts at both formula. between Glynville Close, Mallard Speedy resolution of incidents is important to reduce copy-catting. Church Crossroads, Road and Four Wells Road - Keep the Household Recycling Centres open! Don't introduce Colehill and also the mostly garden waste. charges for DIY waste and rubble! Holt Road/Colehill Several lay-bys on Holt Heath, There was an innovative option deployed in Colehill Lane a few Lane Crossroads at particularly two near the years ago, in which a "lay-by" was effectively removed by depositing Broomhill have been Mannington Brook. a mound of landscaped material. It was controversial and unsightly accident debris. Forestry Commission land off at the time, but it has removed its usage as a fly-tip site. Since the removal of Uddens Drive - where the A real Christmas Tree collection and recycling scheme - such as the the Mini-Recycling access tracks onto the one operated by Poole UA at Upton Country Park. Centres there has plantations are. I think the garden waste collection scheme operated by DWP has been an increase in Farmland gateways off Uddens contributed to a reduction in the dumping of garden waste. glass and cans - Drive/Pilford Lane. Improvement of the D4Y on-line reporting system. The reporting sometimes bags or Housing Association car parks. system for highways defects is much better - generates an incident boxes of empties, Bridleway adjacent to Longham number, which is confirmed by email and follow-up information is which might have Lakes. received by email. Both systems suffer from the reported having to been properly Smaller quantities of rubbish left enter personal and address details for every report - there is no disposed of. next to street litter-bins - which login system or HTML "cookie" policy to facilitate regular reports. I However there has don't seem to be being emptied don't think the fly-tip report allows for attachment of photographs. been a decrease in often enough these days, Photographs are particularly useful in demonstrating the nature and other materials leading to unsightly spillage. quantity of materials to be collected. dumped at the sites of the former MRCs. Corfe Any report of flytipping that has come into the Office or which is seen on the edge of the highway is reported to D4Y Mullen Cranborne A lot All on list Bourne by Definitely Byway 17 on Castle Hill Lane, Stop or reduce charge at landfill site. EDDC/DWP increasing Castle Hill Lane, Gypsies Pit, Other lay-bys going into Cranborne on B3078, Roke Hill, Holwell. No of incidents Types of waste left* Cost of removal Problem Hotspots Suggestions on how fly tipping could be overcome increasing decreasing or staying the same? Ferndown I have no These encompass I am unable to The problem Heatherlands Estate, Ford Lane 1. We need to increase the accessibility, cost and convenience of numbers to the full range of comment. is on the Recreation Ground (edges), lawful disposal, and in Ferndown reduce the availability of popular offer, quantative rubbish. In the increase, as Uddens Drive, Bottom of flytipping spots. There are many ways of achieving this, well data is that Heatherlands area, I can be Ameysford Road, Bottom documented and available on the internet. which should be have personally expected in junction of Green Lane/High offered by the recovered everything times when Mead Lane. The latter four 2. Increase the perceived risk of offenders getting caught: CCTV local authority. from a mattress financial should be targeted with signage (dummies have some effect), signage to indicate the area is being Landowner where I found issues are and dummy cctv cameras, sited watched, publicity of success, and ongoing work with media and issues will never sixteen snakes dominant. at a point of low risk to community, undertaking an annual 'crackdown', work with schools. be within, to white Other than vandalism (high up!). comprehensively goods. So, poverty, there 3. Reduce rewards: Reduce charges for commercial waste, free reported, so personally is a high level collection of bulky waste for areas such as Heatherlands, proactive remains an experienced have of disrespect work with PACTs. issue of doubt been household for fellow as to quantity, rubbish, a high citizens and 4. Reduce provocations: regular communications on HRC, taking whilst incidence of fast the measures to reduce queuing times, lengthening opening hours at understanding food wrappers from environment, HRC that tippers are KFC and so educational indiscrimate as McDonalds, white support and 5. Remove excuses: education programme on responsibilities, to where they tip and household encouraging prosecute residents who flytip at recycling facilities - so goods including social norms assumptions settees and fridges, in safe and Agencies need to work together to overcome lack of resources, may be bicycles (perhaps careful perceived lack of support from partners, engaging the community reasonably stolen?) and disposal and in difficulties in securing convictions. This issue needs to be accurately commercial garden should be seen as a priority. drawn through waste. A policy is used and available data. needed in areas of invested in. I hope some of my thoughts are useful. To support an ongoing concentrated clean, high quality environment that we all enjoy, we need to deprivation on a understand the processes of flytipping and concentrate on concerted and preventative action, and bear down on illegal activity. If there is supportive policy so political will, this can and must be achieved. that items are not dumped, but support I would like to see EDDC using more innovation, preventative given to remove. A strategies through grant support to PACTs, and improvements in quarterly skip service HRC without charging. should operate on the Heatherlands Estate. This upfront preventative cost will be much cheaper that the costs of action after the event. More local action is required including lengthsman support, community litter pickers and constant monitoring by ward councillors. Gussage All Saints No of incidents Types of waste left* Cost of removal Problem Hotspots Suggestions on how fly tipping could be overcome increasing decreasing or staying the same? Holt Regularly – Both Household and Cost incurred by Problem was Whole Parish, esp Holt Heath, Keep Brook Road Open and Free of Charge Monthly Garden (particularly EDDC Unknown increasing Holt Forest, Clayford and Leylandii hedge Mannington cuttings Knowlton 10-15 incidents Tyres, stripped Council Cost Slight increase Bagman’s Lane (local Byeway) More Council free tipping sites available.