{"id":480044,"date":"2026-03-17T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:12:14","slug":"st-helens-supermarket-urged-to-clear-fly-tipping-grot-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480044\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens supermarket urged to clear fly tipping &#8216;grot spot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurrier said the waste was not contained, meaning that it was spreading into the surrounding neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the bad weather it gets wet and starts to smell and you don&#8217;t actually know what is in there either,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurrier, who moved to the town from Newton-le-Willows a year ago, said she had been &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the amount of fly tipping in St Helens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are beautiful parts but it is sad people are dumping litter and can&#8217;t take pride in where they live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra) figures, over the last decade (2014-15 to 2024-25) there have been 21,194 fly-tipping incidents in St Helens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a significant increase between 2023 and 2024, when it went up by 1,158 incidents (1,901 to 3,059).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, it has fallen back to 1,366 incidents in 2024-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spurrier said the waste was not contained, meaning that it was spreading into the surrounding neighbourhood. &#8220;In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-480044","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\/480044","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=480044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}