{"id":460474,"date":"2026-03-06T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460474\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:36:13","slug":"drone-to-be-used-to-spot-fly-tipping-in-bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460474\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone to be used to spot fly-tipping in Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority has already taken delivery of its first drone, with staff taking part in training on how to use it, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave Dunbar, environmental health manager, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ll deploy our resources where needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a &#8220;considerable number of fly-tipping incidents&#8221; had already been recorded on fixed CCTV cameras, leading to more enforcement action across the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council report said the sites for the CCTV cameras had been &#8220;strategically chosen based on key factors, including the volume of public complaints, the involvement of vehicles in offences, and their designation as high-priority areas such as gateways, streets and roads with numerous fast-food takeaways&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The authority has already taken delivery of its first drone, with staff taking part in training on how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460474","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\/460474","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=460474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}