CLA’s three-point plan on fly-tipping

Fly-tipping unnecessarily burdens landowners in England and Wales with a yearly £200 million clean-up bill and is a blight on the landscape, said the CLA.

It urged Defra to adopt its three point strategy to clear the mess.

• Ensure local authorities accept fly-tipped waste at local tips easily and without charge to landowners,
• Stop prosecution of landowners who have waste materials – particularly hazardous waste such as asbestos – dumped on their land and have to foot the bill for removing it, and
• Create the right policy framework for local authorities to work with police forces and other bodies on a zero-tolerance approach to the perpetrators of environmental crime.

Rupert Ashby, CLA South East regional director said: “Fly-tipping is a key area of concern to CLA members in this area, some of whom have suffered terribly, because the system currently does not work and is grossly unfair to fly-tipped landowners and farmers.

“At the moment, many people are afraid of reporting fly-tipping incidents for fear of being fined or incurring heavy costs when they have done nothing wrong. Defra and the Environment Agency urgently need to review the ways in which landowners are able to recycle materials dumped on their property.”

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