{"id":546630,"date":"2026-04-23T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:30:13","slug":"lewisham-council-accused-of-fly-tipping-rubbish-by-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546630\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewisham Council accused of fly-tipping rubbish by residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issues being reported by residents come after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj38y1n37x0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a clampdown on fly-tipping by Lewisham Council<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it&#8217;s not the first time that the piles of rubbish bags left by street cleaners has caused problems locally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December, enforcement officers showed the BBC that in some parts of Lewisham, bags of rubbish are piled up by street cleaners and these are added to by authorised rubbish bags from flats and businesses. These piles of rubbish, they said, are then attracting fly tipping. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eiman Rostami, from the council, said: &#8220;Unfortunately, human nature, you see a big pile of rubbish bags on the side of the road, and you think &#8216;oh, I&#8217;ve got some rubbish as well &#8211; I can&#8217;t be bothered to take it to the dump, I&#8217;ll just put it next to there&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council increased the maximum fine for fly-tipping from \u00a3400 to \u00a31,000 last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issues being reported by residents come after a clampdown on fly-tipping by Lewisham Council last year. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-546630","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\/546630","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=546630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}