leeds wrote:

So if someone draws up on a public road and lobs a fridge/sofa/rubbish into a field which might be a field used for grazing livestock.. Now farmer comes along and to protect the livestock pitches the flytipped rubbish back over the wall onto public highway. Farmer is then liable to prosecution for fly tipping if caught out.
Brendan

blackwolf wrote:

^^ Two points: (1) I wouldn't mind betting that the fly-tipping clean up costs come from a different budget line and therefore don't equate directly, and (2) if the fly-tipping is on private land it costs the council nothing, it is the landowner or occupier who has to bear the cost.

In fact, if someone dumps a lorry-load of 500 scrap tyres or fridges on your land you probably won't even find anyone who'll investigate for you, it will be considered a civli matter.

Shocking.

In Redcar some years ago a group of gang who were supposed to be disposing of tyres on behalf of different tyre fitting companies were driving along residential streets throwing them into peoples gardens under cover of darkness. If I remember correctly the local authority would collect them if you lived in social housing but not if you owned your own property. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place,
so it doesn't take much to us off.

Richard

OsloBlue wrote:

there was a spate of flytipping down a road from ongar to Romford Litterlly couldn't turn off, piles of rubbish like 6 to 8 foot high, constantly having to snake round them.

let me guess the farmer got done


some arse wipes who own a shop (selling white goods) opposite where I used to work and next to a bus stop one morning about 7.30am just walked out with a load of polystyrene and just chucked it into the road !