{"id":457026,"date":"2026-03-04T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:14:09","slug":"sea-of-fly-tipped-waste-is-found-dumped-next-to-traveller-site-that-is-just-metres-from-a-recycling-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea of fly-tipped waste is found dumped next to traveller site that is just metres from a recycling centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

By DAN WOODLAND, NEWS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 04:28 EST, 4 March 2026 | Updated: 07:08 EST, 4 March 2026 <\/p>\n

A sea of fly-tipped rubbish has been found dumped next to a traveller site just metres away from a recycling centre.<\/p>\n

Piles of waste have been strewn across a field sitting between\u00a0the Brooks Green Gypsy and Traveller site and\u00a0Norwich South recycling centre outside Norwich.<\/p>\n

The swathes of rubbish,\u00a0including building material such as pallets and metal sheets, first appeared in June 2023, according to satellite imagery.<\/p>\n

South Norfolk Council (SNC) has said it is investigating who had been ditching the waste but had so far hasn’t received any evidence on who was responsible.<\/p>\n

People living on Brooks Green, a plot of about eight pitches managed by Broadland Housing for permanent settling, said they did not know who was responsible.<\/p>\n

Landowner Barry Brooks donated the land to create the traveller site next door in 2009 and it was named after him.<\/p>\n

One man, who lives at Brooks Green but did not wish to be named, said he had ‘caught a couple of people driving down and dumping there’ and said any incidents get reported to the council.<\/p>\n

Another woman wondered if sometimes people trying to get to the Norwich South dump may end up leaving rubbish there instead.<\/p>\n

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A sea of fly-tipped rubbish has been found dumped next to Brooks Green Gypsy and Traveller site (right) and Norwich South recycling centre (left)<\/p>\n

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Piles of waste have been strewn across a field sitting next to the traveller site<\/p>\n

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The swathes of rubbish include building material such as pallets and metal sheets<\/p>\n

Norfolk has been blighted by fly tipping in recent weeks with 1,200 tons of illegal waste dumped on one four-acre plot.<\/p>\n

Landowner Peter, 40, said the situation highlighted the struggles of landowners who are ultimately legally responsible for clearing the mess.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for SNC said: ‘If the landowner can supply evidence of who is responsible, we will investigate and we will work with landowners.<\/p>\n

‘Unfortunately, it is the landowner’s responsibility to remove the waste unless we can find those responsible.<\/p>\n

‘The council takes fly-tipping very seriously and would ask all landowners to report any incidents of fly-tipping to help us understand the nature of the activity.’<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Broadland Housing said it is not the landowner of the site and that it did not know who has been fly-tipping on the adjacent field.<\/p>\n

The Environment Agency has said the scale of the fly-tipping is not significant enough to warrant its officers’ involvement and that it was a district council issue.<\/p>\n

Barry Brooks has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n

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