{"id":40604,"date":"2025-08-02T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40604\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:55:18","slug":"rat-sightings-spark-action-call-over-york-fly-tipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40604\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat sightings spark action call over York fly-tipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tanya Lyon, the council&#8217;s community safety manager, said fly-tipping was taken &#8220;very seriously&#8221; with perpetrators fined up to \u00a31,000 or prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the council was working alongside its waste disposal company to put warning signs on the recycling bins and the viability of installing CCTV was also being considered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;On private land, fly-tipping will be investigated, but landowners are responsible for clearance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said it understood Morrisons had been in contact with the council over the issue, but the supermarket chain had declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, councillor Emily Nelson, Labour&#8217;s ward member for Westfield, said anyone with information that could help with taking action against the fly-tipping should come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanya Lyon, the council&#8217;s community safety manager, said fly-tipping was taken &#8220;very seriously&#8221; with perpetrators fined up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40604","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\/40604","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=40604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}