{"id":478860,"date":"2026-03-16T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:27:08","slug":"rewards-of-up-to-500-for-east-hampshire-fly-tipping-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478860\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewards of up to \u00a3500 for East Hampshire fly-tipping reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Hampshire said fly-tipping was a &#8220;perpetual problem&#8221; in its area, often in remote locations and at night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Nick Drew, a cabinet member, said: &#8220;It is very disappointing that people come to enjoy the South Downs National Park and the beautiful landscapes that it offers and decide to pollute it with their rubbish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Many people I speak to feel more should be done and this reward scheme will help us do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">September&#8217;s incident, in Julie&#8217;s Lay-by on the A31 near Alton, involved 15 tonnes of material including asbestos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, the council reported problems with &#8220;dumping and burning on the West Sussex\/Hampshire border in Rowlands Castle and on the A272&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the rewards were for information leading to enforcement action, which can include fixed penalty fines or court prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Householders can also be fined if their waste ends up in a fly-tip and they have not checked that the waste carrier was properly authorised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Hampshire said fly-tipping was a &#8220;perpetual problem&#8221; in its area, often in remote locations and at night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-478860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478860","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=478860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}