{"id":709807,"date":"2026-07-25T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:45:20","slug":"hempsted-household-recycling-centre-to-close-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709807\/","title":{"rendered":"Hempsted Household Recycling Centre to close for three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-tipping in Gloucester rose from 1,336 incidents in 2023\/24 to 1,513 in 2024\/25, according to the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ann Maidment, regional director for the South West at Country Land and Business Association, said: &#8220;Fly tipping places an unbearable burden on farmers and landowners who have had enough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is not a minor nuisance \u2013 it is a serious rural crime often driven by organised criminal networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Bowkett said he was confident fly-tipping would not increase due to the closure of the site, and that there were &#8220;always bookings available&#8221; for other household waste disposal sites in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure the vast, vast majority of our residents across our county are law-abiding citizens who understand the way the waste is disposed,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping in Gloucester rose from 1,336 incidents in 2023\/24 to 1,513 in 2024\/25, according to the Department for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709807","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\/709807","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=709807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}