A road in Birchington had to be shut this morning (September 24) due to a large fly-tipping incident.
Thanet council is investigating after furniture and building materials were dumped in Park Road at the Woodchurch end.
This is the second reported fly-tip on Park Road in less than two weeks. Council officers attended the scene and cleansing operatives had cleared the area by 8.30am. The dumped waste included furniture and 1,800kg of mixed waste, including wood, slate tiles, roofing felt, insulation and cladding.
Anyone with any information about the fly-tipping can contact [email protected]
Thanet council says this could include someone that has paid a contractor to clear their rubbish in good faith. All information received will be treated confidentially.
The council’s Street Scene Enforcement team deals with over 5,000 complaints of dumped rubbish and fly-tipping a year, and conducts daily patrols of known hotspots across the district.
There is CCTV at key locations in Thanet, which supports the work that the Street Scene Enforcement team does to investigate fly-tipping crimes.
Thanet council says people must use registered waste carriers to dispose of any household waste that cannot be collected by the council’s waste and recycling service. The council also provides a bulky waste collection service, to enable residents to dispose of larger items safely and responsibly. Business owners must use a commercial waste carrier to dispose of the waste their business generates.
In February Thanet council approved a 150% increase in fixed penalty fines for fly-tipping from the then- maximum of £400 up to £1000.
A rise was also be made in the fine for breach of care – when householders fail to hire registered third parties to dispose of waste properly – from £400 to £600.
The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 that came into force on the 31st July 2023 has given local authorities the option to increase the fines issued under fixed penalty notices for fly tipping and waste and duty of care.
Thanet council hopes the increase fines to the maximum amount allowed will deter fly tipping, particularly by ‘professional’ fly tippers.
In 2022-23 local authorities in the country dealt with 1.8million fly tipping incidents.
Throughout 2022 Thanet council’s Street Scene Enforcement team investigated over 5000 reports with 2881 of those being fly tipping complaints. This equates to almost 8 fly tipping incidents a day.
The council now also has 10 re-deployable cameras which can be used, in part, to tackle fly tipping.
Residents are encouraged to report fly tipping incidents via an online form on the council’s website, where they can view updates on the status of their complaints.
Further information on the bulky waste collection service, and responsible ways to dispose of waste is available on the council’s website.
Find who dumped it all , and deposit the lot in their front garden !
If the culprits are found, then they should not only pay the fine, but also work for say 100 hours clearing up other dumped rubbish. I’m sure that would be just as much a punishment as the fine.
Absolute scum. Custodial sentences are required.
Agree with all of the above. Lose their driving licence as well
Remove their vehicles they use for criminality and compound them to be crushed later.
I echo that Kent Resident! Their vehicles should be filmed being crushed,and put on (anti) social media, which is probably all they watch! I know someone who is using the gardens front and rear of their rented bungalow to store demolition/scrap. Periodically they have a clear out when the rats become too obvious, and my guess is its not taken to a registered rubbish dump!
Don’t bother! The chance if anyone being caught and convicted is almost zero.
Less than 2% of flytipping crimes go before the courts and obtain a conviction.
Even if convicted the flytipper will pay the fine and write off the cost as a business expense.
If you knowingly use dodgy dave’s waste collection service, you’re as guilty as he is.
Until Districts and counties are abolished and waste collection and disposal comes under one Unitary LA this will continue ad infinitum.
it’s disgusting but if the council opened up the tip this maynot be a problem I agree crush the vehicles and fine the person/s dump in their gardens take their license away I agree with everything if you can’t find out from letters then fingerprint everything you will surely get a result from dna yes it may cost to do all this but put it this way if you find them put it on top of their fine
“it’s disgusting but if the council opened up the tip”
The tip is open, seven days a week?
So fly tipping is covered by Street Scene Enforcement team from TDC? and no Police are involved? So lets get this right, pretty much like the parking enforcement dept?
That’s obviously why less than 2% of fly tipping crimes go to court as TDC have limited powers and limited resources to investigate and why everyone parks on the pavements/double yellows/pedestrian crossings and even in the middle of the road.
I think these things should be handed to the police to control and investigate as they have far more powers and resources.
“I think these things should be handed to the police to control and investigate as they have far more powers and resources.”
Local police don’t have the staff, or manpower to even investigate every report of DV. Rape cases, for example, are taking three/four years to get to court…Yet you want to clog them up investigating rubbish? When there’s already dedicated teams for that? My good god.
Checksfield moving house, methinks!!😊