\n The fly-tipping happened on Sweethaws Lane, near to Crowborough Beacon Golf Club.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was highlighted by Brighter Crowborough, a community volunteer litter-picking group.\n<\/p>\n
\n The group posted about the fly-tip on Facebook on September 16, describing it as “particularly nasty”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Group member David Collumbell said the fly-tip was made up of vehicle components, such as bumpers and dashboards.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fly-tip contained many vehicle parts(Image: Brighter Crowborough)\n<\/p>\n
\n David believes the dumped car parts may be the result of ‘banger racing’.\n<\/p>\n
\n Banger racing is a full-contact motorsport where drivers race old, derelict cars on an oval or figure-eight track, while intentionally damaging their opponents’ vehicles.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Considering what is there, it is suspected that these type of items would be removed for banger racing,” David said.\n<\/p>\n
\n An example of banger racing(Image: Dash)\n<\/p>\n
\n Crowborough Beacon Golf Club reported the fly-tip to Wealden District Council.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for the council said: “We visited to assess the waste and reported it to Sussex Police due to the presence of the large number of vehicle parts.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We were in touch with the landowner who was aware of their responsibility to clear the waste.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n Brighter Crowborough was started in February 2016, dedicated to keeping their town “clean, green and litter free.”\n<\/p>\n
\n David says the group has volunteers out and about most days, picking up around 1000 bags of rubbish a year.\n<\/p>\n
\n They also clean road safety and information signs, tidying up over 1000 signs this year alone.\n<\/p>\n
\n A sister group, Brighter Ashdown Forest, was set up in 2021 and performs a similar role.\n<\/p>\n
\n Both groups can be contacted via their Facebook pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fly-tipping happened on Sweethaws Lane, near to Crowborough Beacon Golf Club. It was highlighted by Brighter Crowborough,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-145256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145256","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=145256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}