{"id":135692,"date":"2025-09-14T00:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:21:17","slug":"councils-must-keep-fly-tipping-prosecution-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135692\/","title":{"rendered":"Councils &#8216;must keep fly-tipping prosecution money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leaders are calling for local authorities to be allowed to keep the thousands of pounds generated from fly-tipping fines, rather than handing the money over to central government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Gloucestershire Council&#8217;s councillor Sean Rhodes said the authority raised \u00a350,000 in 2024 from winning court cases against fly-tippers &#8211; but had to hand it to the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leaders have written to the government urging ministers to introduce a change in law to allow local authorities to keep the money, so they can reinvest in services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Treasury has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council leaders are calling for local authorities to be allowed to keep the thousands of pounds generated from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-135692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}