\n With fly-tipping becoming more of a prominent issue, I headed to a few of these spots to speak to local residents and business owners and give my personal account.\n<\/p>\n
\n Firstly I headed to an area of town which is usually in the crosshairs of naysayers, Norwich Road, which despite its apparent reputation as a hellscape it was clean, tidy and generally litter free.\n<\/p>\n
\n These bags were the only litter I could see on Norwich Road (Image: Oli Picton)\n<\/p>\n
\n Whilst there was some wrapped bags at the very end near St Matthew’s Street, walking up the road as far as Cumberland Towers, I did not see any litter or fly-tipping across the whole of the road.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pavement was a little grubby, but no more than most pavements in the town centre as far as I was concerned.\n<\/p>\n
\n From there, I wandered down to Chapman Lane, next to the car park, the New Wolsey theatre and also the back of businesses and flats that face Crown Street.\n<\/p>\n
\n The bins round the back of the New Wolsey theatre and the businesses on Crown Street (Image: Oli Picton)\n<\/p>\n
\n A member of the public, who wished to remain anonymous said: “It is a shame really that behind the back of theatre there has been a recurring problem with bins and rubbish, with the wind it can get swept across the entire road and pavement.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0“If people are coming in from the bus stop or walking from Portman Road this can be the main entrance for people into Town and that doesn’t give off the best look of Ipswich.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0“Coming round the back on Chapman Lane, you have a number of flats above businesses who don’t appear to have their own wheely bins, and so when rubbish doesn’t get collected or it is dumped in places, people think it is okay [to litter]”\n<\/p>\n
\n The bridge above the car park has become a hotspot in recent months (Image: Oli Picton)\n<\/p>\n
\n Chains could be seen on the bins for the New Wolsey, there to prevent overflowing their own bins but on the day I visited, all of the bins had been emptied with a few bits of litter.\n<\/p>\n
\n Walking out of the town centre and into the terraced housing where we have had reports of fly-tipping in recent months, I took a stroll up to Cobbold Road and Cemetery Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cobbold Road was completely clean from what I saw on my journey, and I caught the attention of someone taking their rubbish out who I flagged down for a quick chat.\n<\/p>\n
\n This resident said that she called people out who she saw fly-tipping or dropping off litter (Image: Oli Picton)\n<\/p>\n
\n A resident of Cobbold Road told this newspaper: “I don’t like seeing a load of junk around, I think people should pick up their own rubbish.\n<\/p>\n
\n “When I see people leaving stuff I tell them to pick it up, some people are scared as to what their reaction might be but I tell them off if I know I am right.\n<\/p>\n
\n “There hasn’t been anything down here recently, it looks nice and tidy but I don’t like people leaving junk everywhere.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Cemetery Road did have a noticeable increase in litter (Image: Oli Picton)\n<\/p>\n
\n Probably the area with the most litter around I saw was on Cemetery Road, whilst there were not bags and bags of rubbish chucked around, there was a noticeable increase in small bits like crisp packets and cigarette cartons.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ipswich Borough Council have been tackling fly-tipping as a priority, which may have been why I didn’t see much on my walk around the town centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor George Lankester, portfolio holder for communities, said: “Fly-tipping is an unacceptable offence that has a negative impact on our communities and local environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We want residents to be assured that, where there is sufficient evidence, we will take robust action against those responsible, including issuing fines and pursuing further enforcement action if necessary.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cigarette cartons were left in the street (Image: Oli Picton)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our enforcement officers carry out regular patrols across the town, and we encourage anyone who witnesses fly-tipping or littering to report it through our website.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Alongside investigating incidents and removing dumped waste, we are committed to helping residents dispose of their rubbish responsibly.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We provide information on a range of options, including domestic waste collections, bulky waste services, charity collections and household waste and recycling centres. We also continue to support local community initiatives that help keep our neighbourhoods clean, safe and attractive places to live.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With fly-tipping becoming more of a prominent issue, I headed to a few of these spots to speak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716812","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\/716812","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=716812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}