A business owner said fly-tipping behind his pizza shop, which increases when students move out nearby, is costing him financially. <\/p>\n
Ilhan Ozcan has run Pizzaholic in Heaton, Newcastle, since 2010 and said household rubbish being dumped in and around his large commercial bins has always been a problem.<\/p>\n
But a recent incident led Mr Ozcan to believe landlords and letting agents were also contributing to the mess, as students tend to leave the suburb in May and June.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Newcastle City Council said the Labour-led authority was investigating and it was aware of problems around waste disposal on Chillingham Road, particularly surrounding “student move outs”.<\/p>\n
Mr Ozcan said he has had to pay three times over the past year to dispose of his takeaway shop’s rubbish after his bins were filled.<\/p>\n
“It is making the area dirty as well as costing me financially,” he said.<\/p>\n
The bins are usually locked but Mr Ozcan said even if they were left open “for five minutes” they would be filled immediately.<\/p>\n
“That’s how crazy it is,” he said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Mr Ozcan went into the back lane to find rubbish strewn around the bin as well as large objects including a damaged sofa.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s the landlords,” Mr Ozcan said, adding that July was usually the time letting agents were getting properties ready for a new set of students to move into in August.<\/p>\n
“I usually contact the city council but I’m sick of it,” he said.<\/p>\n
A council spokesperson said: “We recognise that improper use of commercial bins places an unfair burden on business owners.<\/p>\n
“While student activity may contribute to the issue, we are also investigating reports that landlords and letting agents may be involved in the disposal of waste.”<\/p>\n
They added that council teams were working to address the concerns and that enforcement action would be taken where necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A business owner said fly-tipping behind his pizza shop, which increases when students move out nearby, is costing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-43466","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\/43466","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=43466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}