{"id":13616,"date":"2025-09-10T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13616\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:23:08","slug":"tonnes-of-hazardous-asbestos-fly-tipped-in-a31-layby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13616\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonnes of hazardous asbestos fly-tipped in A31 layby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Two large piles of rubbish, thought to weigh about 15 tonnes, including hazardous asbestos has been found dumped in a layby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The piles, each over eight feet (2.4m) high near Alton on the A31, known as Julie&#8217;s layby were reported to East Hampshire District Council (EHDC) on 3 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The council said the layby had been closed with the clear-up alone &#8220;expected to cost taxpayers more than \u00a318,000&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The fly-tipped waste is being examined by the council to try and work out where it may have come from &#8211; with the authority urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Cllr Richard Millard, leader of EHDC, said: &#8220;Fly-tipping is a disgraceful crime that wrecks our environment, endangers public health and drains vital resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Every pound spent clearing up this mess is a pound stolen from essential services that support our residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Describing the tonnes of dumped material as a &#8220;vile fly-tip&#8221;, he added: &#8220;Anyone who takes such selfish, illegal actions are parasites on society. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;If you dump waste, we will do everything in our power to find you and prosecute you to the full extent of the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two large piles of rubbish, thought to weigh about 15 tonnes, including hazardous asbestos has been found dumped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-13616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}