Pallets, mounds of wood chips, electrical appliances, building materials and metal sheets have all been left there.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n But so far the council has not received any evidence from the landowner, Barry Brooks, to identify who is responsible.\n<\/p>\n
\n People living in Brooks Green, a plot of about eight pitches managed by Broadland Housing, said they did not know who was responsible, either.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Brooks donated the land to create the traveller site next door in 2009 and it was named after him.\n<\/p>\n
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Rubbish dumped on the field between the Norwich South recycling centre and Brooks Green in Harford (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n One man, who lives at Brooks Green but did not wish to be named, said he had “caught a couple of people driving down and dumping there” and said any incidents get reported to the council.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another woman wondered if sometimes people trying to get to the Norwich South dump may end up leaving rubbish there instead.\n<\/p>\n
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Rubbish dumped on the field between the Norwich South recycling centre and Brooks Green in Harford (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n The plot of land sits next to the A47 in Harford and is only accessible by travelling along a private road, located off Short Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman for SNC said: “If the landowner can supply evidence of who is responsible, we will investigate and we will work with landowners.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n “Unfortunately, it is the landowner\u2019s responsibility to remove the waste unless we can find those responsible.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The council takes fly-tipping very seriously and would ask all landowners to report any incidents of fly-tipping to help us understand the nature of the activity.”\n<\/p>\n
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Almost 5,000 booked slots to take rubbish to Norfolk tips in the first four days of a new booking (Image: Mike Page)\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokeswoman for Broadland Housing said it is not the landowner of the site and that it did not know who has been fly-tipping on the adjacent field.\n<\/p>\n
\n “However, as our site is next door, we have been talking to the landowners on how we may be able to help,” she added.\n<\/p>\n
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Brooks Green in January 2022 (Image: Google Earth)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Environment Agency has said the scale of the fly-tipping is not significant enough to warrant its officers’ involvement and that it was a district council issue.\n<\/p>\n
\n Barry Brooks has been approached for comment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ben Goldsborough, Labour MP for South Norfolk, said he worries the authorities are “passing the buck” over who is responsible for dealing with the waste.\n<\/p>\n
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Labour MP Ben Goldsborough (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “Fly-tipping is a blight on our landscape, and it is local people who are left to live with the mess. Anyone involved should expect the book to be thrown at them.\n<\/p>\n
\n “People who live near fly-tipping hotspots deserve to know the mess will be cleared quickly and properly. They should not be left chasing answers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Unfortunately, cases where the Environment Agency and councils pass the buck are all too familiar. That is not good enough. Authorities need to step up and take responsibility.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I will keep pressing for action until this is sorted. Anyone affected should get in touch with me so I can make sure their voices are heard and hold the Environment Agency and South Norfolk District Council to account.”\n<\/p>\n
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Brooks Green in June 2023 (Image: Google Earth)\n<\/p>\n
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Brooks Green in August 2025 (Image: Google Earth)\n<\/p>\n
\n Fly-tipping and illegal waste dumping is becoming an increasing concern in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n
\n It can be very costly for landowners, who have to pay for it to be cleared.\n<\/p>\n
\n Critics have previously questioned whether Norfolk County Council’s decision to introduce booking slots for recycling centres and to close tips on Wednesdays could lead to an increase in fly-tipping.\n<\/p>\n
\n Illegal waste being dumped in Norfolk is also coming from further afield.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last week, three people were arrested after 1,200 tonnes of rubbish were found dumped on land in Stockton in South Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n
\n Items dumped include household and commercial waste and recycling that appears to have been collected more than 100 miles (160km) away by Central Bedfordshire Council.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Environment Agency said it was treating the incident as a “waste crime”.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Brooks Green Gypsy and Travellers site<\/a> opened in 2009. Created through a partnership between South Norfolk Council and Broadland Housing Association, it provides eight pitches rented by permanently settled families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Norfolk Council (SNC) announced its officers were looking into who had been ditching the waste, dumped on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-319516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}